SW 142 Social Work Practice with Refugees and Immigrants
The content of the course will be the identification and application of clinical social work assessment and intervention of the major migrant groups, to prepare students to provide advanced clinical services to individuals and families who are currently living in the U.S. The course will build a knowledge base necessary to effectively work with immigrant and refugee populations, in general, and with immigrants who have suffered violence and trauma in particular. Experiences of the migrants and the group and individual characteristics relevant to immigration will be explored and discussed. The general topics for the course have been chosen specifically to cover the arenas of immigration: (1) the migration experience; (2) the characteristics of immigrants who are currently relocating in the U.S., including an analysis of the Western perspective ; (3) the process of acculturation and assimilation, including the controversies embedded in these concepts; (4) the interface of migration, violence and trauma; and (5) the multi-theoretical, multisystemic ecological process of assessment and intervention with a greater awareness and understanding of non-Western perspectives on mental health and healing among the various immigrant and refugee populations.
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SW