SW8462

Students will learn to build a framework for social work interventions using an understanding of childhood development, human attachment, reflective capacity, and the impact of trauma/stress on the developmental trajectory. This course prepares students to understand disruptions and challenges, and to identify client and family-centered social work interventions that include individual children, their caregivers, and community settings. This course assumes basic knowledge of biopsychosocial functioning and assessment and is embedded in models of developmental resilience, attachment, developmental psychopathology, and stress biology, which contribute to learning and adaptive challenges.

Attention will be paid to how protective experiences, especially relational connections, support resilience and growth in the face of adversity. In each class, students will consider functions of development (biopsychosocial capacities that facilitate growth and adaptation), culture, and other aspects of identity. Students will also assess how these risk and protective factors can impact developmental trajectories and mental health functioning. Finally, students will consider what supports and/or interventions contribute to positive growth and healing.

013794

Every Fall & Spring