Mar 28, 2024  
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog
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SOWK 562 - Interpersonal Practice with Adult Individuals

3 Credit Hours
A required concentration course that provides the foundation for clinical social work practice. Advanced knowledge and skills are developed in the areas of interviewing, building the therapeutic alliance, case formulation/conceptualization, and treatment planning and intervention, all from a strengths-based perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on effective case conceptualization and the use of evidence‐based treatments for common mental health problems across populations. The course will also address aspects of clinical and advanced policy practice in the contemporary environment of behavioral health including such concepts as telehealth, integrated care, trauma responsive care, and professional use of self all grounded in the concepts of social justice and anti-racist practice.
(RE) Prerequisite(s): SOWK 503, 504, 510, 511, 515, 516, 519, 538, 542 and 544.
Comment(s): Advanced Standing satisfies prerequisites.
Registration Restriction(s): Graduate students only. Minimum student level – graduate.
Registration Permission: Non-MSSW students may register with consent of instructor.



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