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This course provides a theoretical and evidence-based perspective on working with families at risk while encouraging strength and resilience. Content will include assessment of and interventions for various types of family issues that can lead to trauma such as substance abuse, family violence, grief and loss, and medical and developmental disabilities. This course will also explore various types of families involved with children and youth in the child welfare system (kinship, foster, adoptive, and intact but at risk families). Emphasis will be on strengths-based and family-centered approaches to ethical social work practice and will include skill development for intervention and evaluation of practice. Special emphasis will include diverse family formations such as single parent families and LGBTQ families. This course will utilize lecture, discussion, and case-based approaches to learning and special family types will be integrated using this case-based strategy.
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