MSW PROGRAM CONCENTRATIONS CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK CONCENTRATION

This concentration prepares students for evidence-based clinical social work practice with a variety of clients in numerous community settings. Overall, this curriculum emphasizes professional services to clients experiencing stressful situations which impair, or threaten to impair, psychological and social functioning. Clinical social work students develop knowledge and skills to enable them to assess, diagnose, and treat persons with social, emotional and/or behavioral disorders. The curriculum includes courses and seminars focusing on theory, research, policy, practice knowledge and skills deemed essential for clinical work with diverse populations of individuals, families, groups, and communities. Course work focuses on at risk and vulnerable populations. Field education provides hands-on opportunities for the application and integration of knowledge and skills.

The Clinical concentration curriculum enables students to meet the following objectives:

1. Assess and/or diagnose and intervene with client psychosocial problems through individual, couple, family, and/or group modalities. Analyze how policies impact clinical practice.

2. Conduct autonomous empirical evaluations of their own practice interventions, incorporating valid and reliable measures.

3. Critically evaluate, synthesize, and articulate empirical and conceptual literature related to an applied clinical context.