2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Jan 02, 2025  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

SWRK 615 - Social Work Practice in Mental Health


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

This advanced course focuses on social work practice with persons who have mental illness, and the impact mental illness has on families and society. Primary focus is on the therapeutic relationships, assessments, treatment planning, interventions, psychotropic medication, and case management. Students develop an understanding of the classification and diagnosis of DSM-IV.
Prerequisite: SWRK 611