Graduate Courses
SOWK 631: Clinical Social Work Practice with Family Violence
Description
This course will focus primarily on interpersonal and family violence between partners and the impact of violence on the family. It will examine the various epistemological conceptualizations of violence, and the treatment of violence as it is experienced by and from various family members within an ecological framework with consideration of micro, mezzo, and macro areas of practice. As a practice course the content will focus on the reciprocal nature between social systems and violence while also learning how to identify and apply clinical social work assessment and interventions relevant to violence within partners and families.