SOCW 461

Social Work With Groups (3,0,0) 3 credits

Groups may be the most widely used modality in social work practice. They provide a vehicle for treatment, task accomplishment, self-help, mutual aid, community intervention, peer supervision and professional association. The principal objective of this course is to introduce students to group work for the generalist social worker. Group work will be examined from a variety of theoretical and practice orientations.

Prerequisite: SOCW 200A and 200B, third year standing or permission of the instructor