Office of Professional Excellence
Course Offerings
as of 12/5/2014 1:42:51 PM
| Spring 2014 | Summer 2014 | Autumn 2014 |
New York State LCSW Content Areas
Codes following course descriptions indicate the New York State LCSW content area(s) satisfied by the course. Courses without codes do not satisfy any of the content areas.
For more information see General Information on LMSW and LCSW Licensing in New York State and the List of Courses Meeting LCSW Requirements. |
| DIAG | DSM, diagnosis |
| ASMT | Assessment in clincial social work process |
| TRMT | Clincial social work treatment |
| POPS | Clinical social work practice with general and special populations | |
| T6133 Social Work Practice with Women |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. This course focuses on problems faced by women and the practice implications at both the direct practice and planning/administrative levels. Students will explore new approaches to practice with women in different roles and stages of life, as well as in specialized populations such as abused partners, female offenders, rape victims, and women with addictions. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/23/2014 - 5/1/2014. Thursday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 301). Lauren Taylor. Call number: 22499.
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| T6205 Social Work Practice with Children |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. Students study assessment and intervention with children and their parents; differentiation between socio-cultural, developmental, functional, and organic deviations and variations; and various techniques and skills (e.g., play, dramatization, and verbalization) that can be helpful when working with children. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 305). Heidi Horsley. Call number: 23248.
Section 002. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 305). Heidi Horsley. Call number: 23400.
Section 003. 1/22/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 301). Joan Bell. Call number: 23547.
Section 004. 1/22/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 301). Joan Bell. Call number: 23699.
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| T6214 Social Work Practice with Families |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. Students study the objectives and characteristics of family treatment as well as the role of the worker and techniques commonly used. Relevant concepts about family as a social system, interactional processes, social class, and role conflicts, individual psychodynamics and situational variables are examined in terms of various types of family treatment reported from practice. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 9:00am-10:50am (room 406). Walter Vega. Call number: 26752.
Section 002. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 11:00am-12:50pm (room 404). Marybeth Jordan. Call number: 28603.
Section 003. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 9:00am-10:50am (room 312). Alirio Guerrero. Call number: 29288.
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| T6603 Developmental Aspects of Adolescence: Theoretical and Intervention Perspectives |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. A developmental approach to adolescent psychopathology based on extensive readings and clinical discussion is studied. Subphases of adolescence and developmental deviations and implications for social work practice are also considered. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room C02). Ronald Feldman. Call number: 98453.
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| T6604 Normal and Pathological Aspects of Childhood |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. This course takes a developmental approach to childhood psychopathology from infancy until adolescence. Biological and environmental influences on psychopathology, current concepts in using psychopathological criteria for diagnosis, issues of co-morbidity and of continuity and discontinuity of disorders are addressed from the developmental perspective. Actual case material is used to illustrate various clinical entities and to relate them to situations confronting the social worker. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 301). Jordan DeVylder. Call number: 88021.
Section 002. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 404). Prudence Fisher. Call number: 13045.
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| T7114 Clinical and Developmental Neuroscience |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. Significant advances in clinical and developmental neuroscience pertaining to mental health problems have important implications for clinical social work practice. This introductory course will provide a brief overview of current findings related to conditions such as schizophrenia, substance use, depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorders. Utilizing a clinical and developmental affective neuroscience framework, we will review current findings on the etiology and treatment of mental health problems. Specific cases will be reviewed and the following questions will be addressed: (1) How does the brain change across development? (2) What circuits are disrupted in various mental health conditions? (3) What innovative interventions are being developed and tested based on new findings? (4) How can clinical social workers capitalize upon cutting-edge findings in the treatment and prevention of mental health problems with their clients? |
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Spring 2014
Section 015. 3/11/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 11:00am-12:50pm (room 304). Anne Conway. Call number: 91252.
Section 018. 3/11/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 304). Anne Conway. Call number: 97303.
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| T7114 Clinical Practice with Couples |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. The purpose of this course is for students to acquire the knowledge and clinical skills necessary to work with couples. Course material will center on experiential learning that will include VITAL exercises and role-plays. Lectures and discussion will draw from systems, cognitive-behavioral, social-constructionist, psychodynamic, and narrative theories. Emphasis will be placed on understanding and intervening using appropriate theoretical perspectives, as well as working with diverse populations including gay and lesbian couples, couples of color, and cross-cultural couples. Students will develop knowledge and skills for practice with specific problem areas such as chronic illness, and abuse. Issues of gender, class, age, culture, and ethnicity will be emphasized. Students will be encouraged to present their own cases whenever possible. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 021. 3/12/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 10:00am-11:50am (room C02). Susan Witte. Call number: 86781.
Section 023. 3/11/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 404). Sue Simring. Call number: 98454.
Section 032. 1/21/2014 - 3/4/2014. Tuesday 9:00am-10:50am (room 305). Keren Ludwig. Call number: 27153.
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| T7114 Clinical Practice with Individuals and Families Coping With Life-Threatening Medical Illness |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. This course is designed to provide a framework for clinical practice with individuals and families who are coping with a life-threatening physical illness. The course will enhance the skills and knowledge base of clinical practice students and may be particularly useful to those students concentrating in the Health, Mental Health, and Disabilities or Family and Children's Services fields of practice. Life-threatening physical illness is surrounded by a complex set of issues that will be addressed throughout the course. These include medical treatment choices, sociocultural forces that shape care provision and coping, multicultural perspectives on illness and death, psychosocial challenges and tasks associated with developmental stages, countertransference, and stresses connected with this type of work. Social work skills vital in health care practice will be examined, including biopsychosocial assessment, interventions including discharge planning, case management, advocacy and outreach, interdisciplinary collaboration, crisis intervention, supportive, grief and bereavement therapy, and psychoeducation. Values and ethics in clinical practice will be openly discussed as the health care environment is rapidly changing. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 003. 1/21/2014 - 3/4/2014. Tuesday 11:00am-12:50pm (room 406). Mary Sormanti. Call number: 12787.
Section 014. 3/11/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 11:00am-12:50pm (room 406). Mary Sormanti. Call number: 88049.
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| T7114 Complicated Grief Treatment |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. The purpose of this course is to introduce senior social work masters students to knowledge about attachment, loss and complicated grief, and to the principles, strategies and techniques of complicated grief treatment (CGT), an evidence-based approach developed by the instructor. CGT was tested in a prospective, randomized controlled trial and found to be more effective than interpersonal psychotherapy in reducing symptoms of complicated grief. Two further studies of this treatment are currently underway. One focuses on older adults and the other examines CGT when administered with antidepressant medication compared to placebo. An optional field trip to the research site is available as a part of this course. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 005. 1/21/2014 - 3/4/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 406). Katherine Shear. Call number: 12750.
Section 016. 3/11/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 406). Katherine Shear. Call number: 93547.
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| T7114 Harm Reduction with Drug Users: Domestic and International Issues |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. This course is aimed at advancing skills of developing and implementing evidence-based harm-reduction individual- and community-level interventions to address the multiple needs of drug users in the U.S. and in international settings. Harm reduction is a set of multi-level practices that are aimed at reducing negative consequences of drug use, spanning from strategies of safer use to managed use to abstinence, meeting drug users where they are at and affirming them as primary agents of reducing their harms of drug use. Harm reduction practice may range from individual, couple, family, and group practice to community organizing and policy advocacy within a human rights and social justice paradigm. The principles of harm reduction demand practitioners to consider the complex interplay of individual, interpersonal, community and macro-structural factors that shape risk environments and access to prevention, treatment, and care for drug users, to reflect on underlying ethical and human rights issues, and to dynamically respond with evidence-based programs and policies that are designed and implemented in collaboration with drug users. |
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Spring 2014
Section 031. 3/12/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 1109). Louisa Gilbert. Call number: 60539.
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| T7114 Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. Most clinicians will see a number of individuals who fit these behavior patterns in practice as they are high health resource consumers. The treatment model taught in this class, Dialectical Behavior Therapy [DBT], is the intervention for this disorder with the largest body of supporting empirical data; as such it has evoked the interest of hospitals and agencies facing the need for more proceduralized intervention programs. It is an integrative cognitive-behavioral treatment which has been experimentally tested with multiple populations demonstrating severe and complex disorders. DBT has been designated by the APA as one of the empirically demonstrated effective interventions for Borderline Personality Disorder. It has also been demonstrated as effective in randomized clinical trials with substance-abusing BPD clients, geriatric individuals suffering from depression, binge-eating disordered women and inpatient and outpatient adults and adolescents suffering from severe disorders. Numerous outpatient and inpatient treatment programs use this treatment model, including several in the NYC metropolitan area. The model is highly appropriate for social work practice due to its biosocial explanation of dysfunction, the focus on client environment invalidation as a problem antecedent (and as a target for intervention), and the use of a strong problem-solving framework. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 009. 1/21/2014 - 3/4/2014. Tuesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 404). Nancy Ring. Call number: 73198.
Section 019. 3/11/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 404). Nancy Ring. Call number: 82535.
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| T7114 Mindfulness in Clinical Practice |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. Mindfulness interventions, and supporting research, have increased exponentially in the past 10 years. Mindfulness is taught worldwide in multiple settings including schools, prisons, out-patient and in-patient health care, and pre-deployment military settings. In addition, there is increasing evidence that mindfulness practices can assist the clinician by preventing burn out, improving patient care and job satisfaction. While mindfulness is frequently grouped among other interventions, such as CBT, unlike other interventions, it works best when grounded in a personal practice of formal and informal meditation, mindfulness, and yoga. This class will integrate the practices of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a group formatted by Jon Kabat-Zinn over 30 years ago, allowing students to understand mindfulness from the inside out. MBSR and other programs tailored for specific populations such as Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy have shown consistent, reliable and reproducible evidence of reductions in numerous and varied medical and psychological symptoms and conditions including chronic pain, anxiety and depression as well as increased immune responses and self-efficacy. The course will also review the most current evidence, including studies that demonstrate the links between mindfulness and increases in the brain's "grey matter" and slowing or reversing cellular aging (telomere length). TRMT |
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Spring 2014
Section 002. 1/21/2014 - 3/4/2014. Tuesday 9:00am-10:50am (room 311). Lucia Mc Bee. Call number: 19706.
Section 006. 1/21/2014 - 3/4/2014. Tuesday 11:00am-12:50pm (room 311). Lucia Mc Bee. Call number: 68503.
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| T7114 Motivational Interviewing |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. Motivational Interviewing belongs to a category of motivational enhancements and interventions aimed at increasing clients' commitment to change. It draws on strategies from strengths-based (solution-focused) and empowerment social work practice, humanistic psychology (client-centered counseling), narrative and cognitive therapy, as well as systems theory. In this seven-week practice course on working with multiple client populations, we will explore the theories of motivation and focus on the facilitative skills involved in building motivation to change, maintaining behavior change, as well as overdose and relapse prevention. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 007. 1/21/2014 - 3/4/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 311). Andrew Hamid. Call number: 71648.
Section 017. 3/11/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 311). Andrew Hamid. Call number: 96598.
Section 026. 1/22/2014 - 3/5/2014. Wednesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 802). L. McVinney. Call number: 23459.
Section 027. 3/12/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 805). L. McVinney. Call number: 97498.
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| T7114 Policies, Programs and Practice for People Returning from Incarceration: Coming Home as a Contemporary Social Issue |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. The course will focus on the issues raised by the large numbers of people returning from incarceration: what are their needs and what is the impact on their families, communities, and society at-large. The class will examine program models and policies to help students address the contemporary social issue of reentry and demonstrate comprehension of the concept and practical applications of "Reentry" and its relationship to incarceration and to prevention. They will identify relevant laws and policies that shape the experience of people returning from incarceration, apply practice, program development and evaluation to strengthen service delivery for people returning from incarceration, articulate the issues faced by people returning from incarceration and identify existing models to meet their needs, apply systems theory to the reentry process in describing an individual who is incarcerated and is returning from prison and who is part of a family, community and society. Finally, students will demonstrate an understanding of the role that formerly incarcerated and incarcerated people play as agents of change in reentry programs, policies and practices, and apply knowledge and skills in collaboration and cultural sensitivity in investigating existing models that serve people and their families and communities. |
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Spring 2014
Section 028. 3/11/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 11:00am-12:50pm (room 305). Cheryl Wilkins; Kathy Boudin. Call number: 78034.
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| T7114 Psychoeducation: Applications for Advanced Clinical Practice |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. Psychoeducation is a construct that fits well with a social work perspective because it focuses on strengths, ongoing assessment, empowerment and advocacy for the client, and collaboration and parity between practitioner and client. The model draws on theories that encompass education as well as clinical, group, and community practice. It has been applied in areas ranging from severe mental illness and trauma to physical illness and family preservation. While models need to be tailored to fit each set of circumstances, the dynamic issues; that is, the focus on coping skills, stress management, problem solving, empowerment and self-advocacy are quite similar across a range of situations and systems. This course focuses on strategies for using psychoeducation as a preventive and creative model for advocating for and collaborating with individuals, families, and communities through applied practice, program development, staff training, and community partnership and outreach. Applications for supervision and program sustainability are also addressed. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 029. 3/11/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 9:00am-10:50am (room 305). Ellen Lukens. Call number: 29717.
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| T7114 Social Work with Latino Populations |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. This class is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of social work practices with the Latino population across the life-span. This course seeks to deepen students' awareness and understanding of the historical, political, economic, social, and cultural contexts of the Latino population. Students will gain practice-based knowledge by critically examining the variety of practice frameworks, socio-ecological concepts and theories (e.g., acculturation social stratification, racial and ethnic identity), and cultural constructs that inform culturally-competent social work practices with different Latino groups. This knowledge will then be applied to understand the array of psychosocial issues (e.g., health and mental disparities, violence, discrimination) impacting the Latino population across the life span. The course focuses upon identifying and critically evaluating evidence-based practices and approaches for working with the Latino population in major social work practice areas (e.g., mental health, health, children, youth and families, gerontology). ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 013. 3/11/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 9:00am-10:50am (room 311). Leopoldo Cabassa. Call number: 86497.
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| T7114 Social Work with Sexually Abused Children |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. This course explores the incidence and prevalence of sexual abuse and its impact across life stages and within specific populations. Current biopsychosocial theories of trauma will be analyzed and evaluated as they relate to social work treatment of children and adults who have been sexually abused. Through readings, class discussion, and expert guest lecturers, the class will address assessment, treatment approaches, therapeutic techniques, and monitoring and evaluation. The broader social and institutional conditions that help shape the experience of victim, abuser, and therapist will be examined and processed each week. Special emphasis will be placed on the implications and challenges of work with a sexually abused population within the forensic setting. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 011. 1/22/2014 - 3/5/2014. Wednesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 302). Richard Beck. Call number: 78650.
Section 024. 3/12/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 302). Richard Beck. Call number: 25287.
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| T7114 Theories and Intervention for Loss, Grief, and Bereavement |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. This course examines theoretically-informed assessment and intervention strategies for individuals and families confronting a major loss. Characteristics of uncomplicated and complicated grief, the interface of trauma and grief, and associated risk and protective factors for healthy adjustment to loss will be explored. Factual and fictional clinical material will be used to elaborate evidence-based and expert consensus-based intervention strategies and techniques. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/22/2014 - 3/5/2014. Wednesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 705). Mary Sormanti. Call number: 84702.
Section 022. 3/12/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 705). Mary Sormanti. Call number: 77197.
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| T7114 Theory and Treatment of Suicidal Behavior |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. Most social workers will encounter suicidal clients more than once in their careers. While suicide is the penultimate act we wish to avoid, practitioners must also intervene with deliberately self-injurious behaviors that occur with higher frequency. These include suicidal ideation or thoughts; suicidal verbalization, often in the form of suicide threats; intentional self-harm (whether or not there is intent); and suicide attempts. Research on suicidal behavior now indicates that non-fatal suicidal behaviors are often most effectively reduced via systematic focus and specialized intervention strategies. This class will prepare beginning practitioners to assess and manage the clinical risks associated with self-injurious and suicidal behavior as well as expose them to the most recent empirical research advances in preventing and treating suicidal behavior. Objectives: Specifically, the students who successfully complete this course will learn about: 1) the incidence and prevalence of various self-injurious and suicidal behaviors in different demographic and diagnostic groups 2) current controversies in the field 3) methods to identify and assess suicidal and other self-injurious behaviors 4) assessment of suicide risk; immediate risk management strategies 5) functional analysis and selection of intervention targets related to suicidal behavior 6) designing intervention plans, including consultations, for managing the suicidal client in a multidisciplinary setting 7) the role of hospitalization and alternatives in preventing suicide 8) intervention strategies used to reduce chronic suicidal behavior 9) the impact of suicide on survivors and postvention intervention strategies. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 010. 1/22/2014 - 3/5/2014. Wednesday 10:00am-11:50am (room 404). Carolina Hausmann-Stabile. Call number: 76854.
Section 020. 3/12/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 10:00am-11:50am (room 404). Carolina Hausmann-Stabile. Call number: 75955.
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| T7114 Trauma Interventions Across Systems and Populations |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. This course is designed to familiarize the student with various social, economic, personal, and political presentations of trauma that may influence social work service delivery. The goal of exploring these issues is to raise awareness, increase sensitivity, identify systems and populations affected, and gain command of a range of interventions to address trauma in various contexts. |
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Spring 2014
Section 030. 3/12/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 312). Anna Hedrick. Call number: 75538.
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| T7114 Understanding Depression |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. Depression is a highly prevalent, recurrent, and chronic condition affecting individuals across the lifespan. The World Health Organization has reported that depressive disorders are one of the leading causes of disease worldwide with over $83 billion in economic costs (Ustun et al., 2004). This course will provide an overview of current findings on the prevalence, risk, and protective factors for depression across the lifespan. Utilizing a developmental affective neuroscience framework, we will review current findings on the etiology and treatment of affective disorders. Significant attention will be placed on differential diagnosis and assessment, as well as evidence-based treatment and preventive interventions as the following questions are addressed: (1) What is depression? (2) What does it look like across the lifespan? and (3) What are the gold-standard treatment and preventive interventions? DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 004. 1/21/2014 - 3/4/2014. Tuesday 11:00am-12:50pm (room 304). Anne Conway. Call number: 11751.
Section 008. 1/21/2014 - 3/4/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 304). Anne Conway. Call number: 72200.
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| T7114 Working with LGBTQ Individuals and Couples |
| 1.5 points. 22.5 contact hours. This course will emphasize relational and affirmative models of clinical practice with LGBTQ individuals and couples. A post-modern perspective on gender will be used to inform appropriate clinical interventions. Students will learn to identify and distinguish—for this population—normal developmental process from psychopathology. The experiences of transference and countertransference, including therapist self-disclosure, will be highlighted. The clinical implications of timing of "coming out" throughout the life cycle will be examined. Role play will provide access to the similarities and differences among these groups and their heterosexual cohorts. A written case presentation will be required. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 012. 1/22/2014 - 3/5/2014. Wednesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room C02). Jamie Greenfield. Call number: 82096.
Section 025. 3/12/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room C02). Instructor TBA. Call number: . Canceled.
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| T7302 Social Work Practice in Alcoholism and Other Chemical Dependencies |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. This course deals with the scope of the problem, current theories and controversies in the field of alcoholism. Focus is placed on assessment and interventive strategies in services to individuals, families and groups. Clinical issues of denial, enabling, and countertransference, along with issues of culture, staffing patterns, social work role, and resource funding, are emphasized. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 311). Andrew Hamid. Call number: 72849.
Section 002. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 405). Jeffrey Diaz. Call number: 73149.
Section 003. 1/22/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 1109). L. McVinney. Call number: 73351.
Section 004. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 405). Jeffrey Diaz. Call number: 73552.
Section 005. 1/23/2014 - 5/1/2014. Thursday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 304). Sarah Harte. Call number: 73701.
Section 006. 1/15/2014 - 5/15/2014. Thursday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 301). Douglas Warn. Call number: 67347.
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| T7303 Social Work Practice in Group Formation and Development |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. Open to second-year students and to first-year students with the instructor’s permission. This is a seminar in the distinctive knowledge and skills in social work practice with groups. Group formation, internal group problems, and development of mutual aid processes are emphasized. Objective is to increase conceptual and skill competence. Current field assignment to a group is required. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 9:00am-10:50am (room 405). Allen Levine. Call number: 76855.
Section 002. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 305). Matthew Feldman. Call number: 77749.
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| T7305 Social Work Practice and Human Sexuality |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. An introduction to human sexuality in the context of social work practice, this course prepares students to assume a significant role in helping clients to deal with issues of human sexuality. Students are encouraged to address the affective, cognitive, and clinical components of practice and to apply them in their practice. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 11:00am-12:50pm (room C02). Constance Quinn. Call number: 78101.
Section 002. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 406). Lorraine Pirro. Call number: 78250.
Section 003. 1/22/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 406). Eva Kant. Call number: 78396.
Section 004. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 406). Lauren Taylor. Call number: 78548.
Section 005. 1/22/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 406). Eva Kant. Call number: 78747.
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| T7307 Social Work Practice in the AIDS Epidemic |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. The course focuses on enabling, mediating, and advocating intervention for HIV-affected populations, and provides a unique opportunity to unite case and cause. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/15/2014 - 5/15/2014. Wednesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 401). Adam Viera. Call number: 82050.
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| T7311 Social Work Practice and Domestic Violence |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. Students examine the issue of violence against women in families. The demographics of the population, theories of domestic violence, crisis intervention, and short- and long-term clinical issues will be examined, as will service modalities for women victims and survivors, batterers, and their children. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 312). Julie Richards. Call number: 93000.
Section 002. 1/22/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 302). Patricia Moles. Call number: 93398.
Section 003. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 9:00am-10:50am (room 404). Lisa Haileselassie. Call number: 93498.
Section 004. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 304). Allison Ross. Call number: 93698.
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| T7312 Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. All social workers in all fields of practice serve clients who are gay or lesbian. Because of the negative stigma society places on gay and lesbian clients, many face numerous difficulties that require social support and intervention. Students will examine approaches to practice with gay men and lesbians in different roles and stages of life as well as in specialized populations such as gay and lesbian adolescents, parents, and older adults. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 304). David Koch. Call number: 97556.
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| T7313 Social Work Practice with Individuals with Dementia and their Families |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. This course introduces social work students to practice with clients affected by dementia. Since they are likely to work with such clients, it is essential for students to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for effective clinical social work practice in this area. Dementia is a syndrome creating devastation in nearly every domain of human existence for patients, with serious negative impacts that reverberate through families, communities, and society. This course proceeds from the perspective that dementia should be understood as a bio-psycho-social phenomenon. In order to understand and to respond effectively to the needs of their clients, social workers must appreciate the complex interactions of disease pathology, individual strengths, environmental conditions, informal supports, formal resources, and societal influences. They must be able to identify the most appropriate, evidence-based intervention options for both patients and families throughout the many unpredictable stages of dementia, as well as the benefits and limitations of the full array of formal support systems. This course focuses on the processes of differential diagnosis and assessment, evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions and best-practice guidelines, and evaluation of clinical social work practices with persons with dementia and their families. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 1109). Daniel Kaplan. Call number: 87205.
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| T7314 Spirituality and Social Work Practice |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. The experience and impact of spirituality and religion in the lives of individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations in our society will be examined. Practice within a context of diverse populations will be addressed. Attention will be given to different approaches to spirituality and to plural religious perspectives. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/22/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 705). Mary Ragan. Call number: 98651.
Section 002. 1/22/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 10:00am-11:50am (room 301). Frederick Streets. Call number: 74788.
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| T7320 Adult Psychopathology and Pathways to Wellness |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. Prerequisites: T7100. Designed to give students an overall view of the psychopathology demonstrated by patients with the major psychiatric conditions, this course emphasizes background information concerning concepts of diagnosis in their historical context, and current concepts using specific psychopathological criteria to reach a diagnosis as expounded by DSM IV. This course is strongly recommended for clinical students, especially Health, Mental Health, and Disabilities. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/22/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 4:10pm-6:00pm (room 312). Lorraine Pirro. Call number: 66100.
Section 002. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 312). Elijah Nealy. Call number: 66997.
Section 003. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 312). Pascale Jean-Noel. Call number: 67900.
Section 004. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Thursday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 312). Jairo Hoyos. Call number: 12292.
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| T7340 Evidence-Based Practice for Persons with Serious Mental Health Conditions |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. This course is aimed at developing the knowledge and skills necessary for working with individuals with a diagnosis of serious mental illness using recovery-oriented, evidence-based practices. Students will become familiar with evidence-based practices, within a recovery-oriented paradigm, as a general approach to practice as well as specific evidence-based interventions to use for individuals with a diagnosis of serious mental illness. Providing assessment and treatment to a diverse group of individuals with a diagnosis of serious mental illness is the focus of this course and will be discussed in detail. DIAG ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/22/2014 - 4/30/2014. Wednesday 6:10pm-8:00pm (room 311). Ellen Lukens. Call number: 76647.
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| T7612 Ego Psychology and Object Relations Theory |
| 3 points. 45 contact hours. The purpose of this course is to provide students with an accessible introduction to ego psychology and object relations theories and to enable them to begin to apply concepts of these theories in practice. The course reviews the development and evolution of these psychoanalytically oriented theories from the time of Freud through their contemporary conceptualizations and applications. ASMT TRMT POPS |
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Spring 2014
Section 001. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 9:00am-10:50am (room 302). Arthur Lynch. Call number: 81049.
Section 002. 1/21/2014 - 4/29/2014. Tuesday 2:00pm-3:50pm (room 302). Arthur Lynch. Call number: 83349.
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