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| Description | The Introductory Practicum provides students new to social work with the opportunity to be placed in a social work field setting where they receive field instruction and supervision from qualified professionals. Working from an anti-oppressive practice framework, the focus is on developing foundational knowledge and skills for direct practice with service users and service delivery systems. Policies that impact multiple levels of service delivery to individuals, families, groups and communities are examined, all within an evidence informed framework. A minimum of 450 hours of supervised practice is required.
Throughout the practicum time period, students participate in an Integration Seminar led by a Faculty Consultant. Emphasis is placed on critical incidents, areas of success in beginning social work practice, ethical issues and dilemmas, professional behaviour and the foundations of anti-oppressive social work practice in the field. Social work practice content and attendant issues are drawn from participants' non-identifying fieldwork experiences and are examined in light of available theory and practice models.
Students should be aware that there may be financial costs (parking, transportation, insurance) or specific requirements (police checks, health requirements) associated with Field Education settings. A vehicle may be required for some community-based placements and a computer, phone, and internet connection may be required for some remote placements |
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| Prerequisites | SW9701
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SW9719
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | |
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| Description | This course will assist students in developing the skills and confidence required to begin to engage in professional therapeutic relationships with clients in direct practice settings requiring counselling. As one of the core preparatory practice courses it provides the content essential for professional reflective practice. It also aims to provide a sample of beginning techniques for social work students to draw upon in order to negotiate mutally agreed upon goals with clients, assisting them in managing a typical range of presenting problems in social work practice. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | |
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| Description | This course will introduce and examine seminal theory and thought about human growth and development from birth to death within the socio/ecological and psychological contexts of the family and Western society. It will situate the individual within diverse family and social contexts such that relevant human challenges and triumphs can be explored. The course will focus on the negotiation of individual and familial developmental tasks across the lifespan, informed by multiple theoretical frameworks to ultimately engage graduate students in a depth understanding of individual and familial functioning that is informed from positivist (modern), post-modern and social constructivist stances.
Implications for social work direct practice intervention will be discussed. Social work practice responses that promote conditions that are associated with positive developmental outcomes and those that compensate for or ameliorate conditions associated with more challenging developmental outcomes will be addressed. The course emphasis will orient student to understanding the numerous personal and social conditions that enhance or inhibit adaptive developmental human functioning over the life course. The social work view of recognizing and attempting to understand people within their unique environments will be extensively explored. |
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| Description | This course is designed to prepare social work students to work effectively with Indigenous peoples and at various levels of practice with a specific focus on understanding and addressing intergenerational trauma using strengths and culture-based approaches. Students will be encouraged to critically examine how the skills and knowledge can be applied in other populations. Students enrolled in this course will have a good foundation for micro and macro social work practice. The foundation of the course is Indigenous knowledge. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in Master of Social Work Program |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course will provide the opportunity to develop advanced direct practice skills within a strengths-based and critically reflective framework, building upon foundational interviewing skills developed in earlier direct practice courses and learning and practicing the skills of assessment and formulation documents. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Social issues are multifaceted and are unique to socio-political, cultural, and economic contexts. This foundation Community Social Work Practice course provides an overview of different theoretical perspectives and their analyses on contemporary social issues, a review on various community practice theories and models, and an understanding of the range of strategies and tactics for outcome-based community practice. Students will be prepared to develop an in-depth understanding of contemporary social issues and develop responsive models of intervention at macro level to achieve social and economic justice for disadvantaged groups. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course engages students in a process of ethical reasoning relevant to professional social work practice. Theories of ethical reasoning are explored in day-to-day practice and in confronting controversial social issues affecting vulnerable populations. Legislation, court processes and procedures are examined in the light of their ethical and legal implications for social work practice. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3.0 |
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| Description | The Research and Social Work Practice course examines how to develop, conceptualize, implement and critique social work research using a case-study based approach. The course will examine experimental, quasi-experimental, single subject, qualitative, and survey designs along with transformation research. Problem formulation and development along with pertinent measurement, sampling and descriptive and inferential statistical techniques will all be examined. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in the Master of Social Work program |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Group work is a core social work practice modality. This introduction to group work practice course will examine the structure and formation of small groups providing participants insight into how their past group interactions shape their current group practice perspective. The focus of the course will be group work development and the role of the social worker in shaping and facilitating group work process. The course will consist of a combination lectures, discussions, experiential exercises culminating in formal student group presentations. Emphasis is placed upon understanding relationships between structural elements, interactional sequences, group purpose and functions. The relationship between group process and group task activities will be examined in depth both in theory and in applied personal practice. This class is also specifically designed to orientate you to the theory, concept and practice of conflict resolution in group settings, something traditionally ignored and avoided in traditional educational practice. |
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| Description | This course explores issues of diversity in the context of anti-oppressive and culturally informed practice at micro, mezzo and macro levels. A critical theoretical perspective is used to examine conceptual frameworks related to diversity, such as anti-oppressive practice, cultural competency, cultural humility, and multiculturalism. Students will learn culturally informed approaches to working with individual clients as well as with diverse communities. Emphasis will be placed on the use of advocacy and activism in working with oppressed individuals and groups in promoting their full participation in society and in transforming societal structures and processes that prevent such participation. The intent of this course is to equip students with the values, knowledge and skills to work effectively with individuals, families, groups and communities that reflect the diversity of Canadian society. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | The Advanced Practicum provides students with foundational knowledge of social work practice to be placed in a social work field setting where they receive additional field instruction and supervision from qualified professionals. The focus is on developing advanced knowledge and skills for direct practice with individuals, families and groups and communities. A minimum of 450 hours of supervised practice is required. Throughout the Practicum time period, students participate in an Integration Seminar led by a Faculty Consultant using a case consultation model of learning. Social work practice content and attendant issues are drawn from participants' non-identifying fieldwork experiences and are examined in light of available theory and practice models. Emphasis is placed on critical reflection on practice and evidence informed advanced practice theory and skill development demonstrated by the completion of a Reflective Practice Project, which incorporates critical reflection on practice (CRoP). Students should be aware that there may be financial costs (parking, transportation, insurance) or specific requirements (police checks, health requirements) associated with Field Education settings. A vehicle may be required for some community-based placements and a computer, phone, and internet connection may be required for some remote placements. |
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| Description | The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to advanced social work clinical practice. The course attempts to integrate selective aspects of Narrative, Experiential, and Relational theory, and to show how these ideas can be applied to social work practice with individuals, dyads and families. The course will focus on essential skills and common therapeutic factors in selective modalities of practice. Each class will be anchored in real life situations, and practice models will be examined from the perspective of problem construction, case formulation and interventions that assist clients to enhance psychosocial functioning. Conceptual models and practice wisdom will be equally valued, toward identifying 'what works, for whom and under what conditions'. Case examples will highlight the intersection between social work practice and diversity including gender, sexual orientation, spirituality, age, culture and ethnicity. Pathologizing discourses effecting client functioning will be critiqued in order to understand how professional language, problem construction and modes of intervention may perpetuate client difficulties and unequal power relations. Narrative, Experiential and Relational interventions that promote self-healing and resilience will be discussed in some detail. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | |
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| Description | This course provides opportunities to apply advanced research methods to evaluate social work practice. |
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| Description | This course is designed to build on the theoretical content developed in Social Work 9801A Modern and Post-Modern Social Work Direct Practice Theories and explores how theories and social work models of intervention can be applied with individuals. A specific focus on Relational (Psychodynamic) Practice and the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Interviewing Model (focused on strengths) will be studied. This course will examine these theories and/or models in greater depth with a strong focus on interactive learning exercises. The social work practice skills of interviewing/questioning, assessment, case note construction, and maintaining the therapeutic alliance through the essential skills of empathic attunement, genuineness and positive regard will be discussed and applied. |
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| Description | This course will prepare graduate students with theoretical knowledge and practice skills related to social work professional leadership and administration, reflective clinical supervision, and organizational environment analysis, within the context of social and human service organizations and a diverse society. |
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| Prerequisites | Enrolment in the MSW Program |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Given the wide and varied uses of the terms 'critical reflection' and 'reflective practice' this course will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth skills in one particular model: Critical Reflection on Practice. This model is described by its originator as both a theory and a practice, so this course will involve students actively participating in small groups as we work through the stages of the Critical Reflection on Practice process. This will involve taking the time initially to develop the type of learning environment which ensures safety for asking one another questions about our practice in non-judgmental manners and being willing to 'unpack' our responses to incidents in practice and learning.
As we work through the stages of the Critical Reflection on Practice process we will also explore the traditions and underlying theories that have contributed to its development. Critical social theory is one of the underlying theories to this process which assists with uncovering hegemonic influences and moves this form of reflection on practice beyond mere problem solving towards an anti-oppressive form of social work inquiry (or research on direct practice) that develops new practice and theory. |
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| Description | This course provides student with an understanding of the contested nature of mental illness and the impact of significant mental health issues on the individual, the family and vulnerable populations. The main goal of the course is to assist social work practitioner in developing innovative practices for assessment and intervention with people living with a range of psychological disorders |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 hours |
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| Description | This course will address the numerous facets of trauma informed social work practice including the short and long term psychosocial, physical, cognitive, neurochemical and physiological impacts of personal, interpersonal, generational, cultural and societal trauma including war, family crisis, violence, natural disasters, and terrorism. Interventions will be discussed at length. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | .5The Advanced Practicum provides students with an opportunity to be placed in a social work field setting where they receive professional field instruction and supervision. The focus is on developing advanced knowledge and skills for direct and indirect practice, including research, administration and program evaluation. Students are in the field three days per week for two academic terms or an equivalent block placement for a total of 500 hours. |
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| Description | The Advanced Practicum provides students with an opportunity to be placed in a social work field setting where they receive professional field instruction and supervision. The focus is on developing advanced knowledge and skills for direct and indirect practice, including research, administration and program evaluation. Students are in the field three days per week for two academic terms or an equivalent block placement for a total of 500 hours. |
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| Description | The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to advanced practice from a Relational and Narrative theory perspective. The course attempts to integrate selective aspects of theory, and to connect theoretical constructs with present day social work practice with individuals and families. Each theoretical framework will be anchored in real life client stories, where the emphasis is on critiquing important concepts for their application and usefulness in practice situations. Social Work practice wisdom and evidence based approaches will be equally valued, towards identifying 'what works, for whom, and under what conditions'. Models of practice will be examined from the perspectives of problem construction, case formulation and intervention modalities that can assist clients to enhance and maintain psychosocial functioning. Throughout the course particular emphasis will be placed on the intersection between practice and ethnicity, social position, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability and other forms of diversity. The course will attempt to link theoretical knowledge with interventions that promote empowerment and social change. A critique of social pathologies effecting client functioning will be included, in order to examine how social structures perpetuate inequalities and disadvantage. An additional focus of the courseis on the nature of resilience, both from the perspective of the client as well as the practitioner. |
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| Description | The Social Work Practice Research course examines how to develop, conceptualize, implement and critique social work research using a case-study based approach. The course will examine experimental, quasi-experimental, single subject, qualitative, and survey designs along with transformation research. Problem formulation and development along with pertinent measurement, sampling and descriptive and inferential statistical techniques will all be examined. |
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| Description | The course initially reviews the evolution of Canada's social welfare programs within the structures of capitalism, racism and sexism. It follows with an analysis of the current state of the Canadian welfare state within the contexts of pluralism and globalization. The triumph of neo-liberalism and the fracturing of modernist notions of universality within the postmodern aesthetic are probed for the effects on social policy. A key question to be debated is: Do we need to search for new arrangements for the market, the state and civil society in thinking through issues of social policy, social justice and human community? Dimensions of the course include citizen participation, political and social action, ways for social work to connect social policy to practice and to influence the direction and shape of social policy at various levels, feminist issues in social policy, and First Nations and social policy. |
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| Description | This course focuses on the provision of social work practice through small groups and community organizing. The course examines small-group work and community-organization approaches and modalities in addressing issues of concern to communities and their members. Through readings, discussions, and case-study analysis, students explore a variety of advanced-practice related issues. As with SW9601A, Critical Appraisal of Practice: Individuals and Families, the course material is covered in the context of critical analysis, evidence-based practice, and the integration of theory, research and practice experience |
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| Description | Program development and evaluation in Social Work involves the collection, analysis and reporting of information about a policy, program, service or intervention. This information in turn assists in decision-making. Framing this course are empowerment evaluation principles and practices. Evaluation logic and methodology and theory-based evaluation approaches to social work program development and evaluation are included. |
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| Description | Program development and evaluation in Social Work involves the collection, analysis and reporting of information about a policy, program, service or intervention. This information in turn assists in decision-making. Framing this course are empowerment evaluation principles and practices. Evaluation logic and methodology and theory-based evaluation approaches to social work program development and evaluation are included. |
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| Description | The primary goal of this course is to build upon the knowledge and skills that have been learned in previous courses, and to integrate and apply these skills to the research process in professional practice. The underlying aim of the seminar is to build on the question: How can I utilize different ways of knowing in practice and theory-building? The seminar allows a student to apply her/his knowledge and skills to an actual practice research question that may be of interest to the student. Seminar sections meet bi-weekly for the Winter and Summer academic terms. The culmination of this seminar is the Graduate Practice - Research Proposal. |
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| Prerequisites | SW9602 |
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| Co-requisites | SW9600 |
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| Weight | 0.0 | Lecture Hours | 2 |
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| Description | Special topics course. |
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| Description | The Introductory Practicum provides students new to social work with the opportunity to be placed in a social work field setting where they receive field instruction and supervision from qualified professionals. Working from an anti-oppressive practice framework, the focus is on developing foundational knowledge and skills for direct practice with service users and service delivery systems. Policies that impact multiple levels of service delivery to individuals, families, groups and communities are examined, all within an evidence informed framework. A minimum of 450 hours of supervised practice is required.
Throughout the practicum time period, students participate in an Integration Seminar led by a Faculty Consultant. Emphasis is placed on critical incidents, areas of success in beginning social work practice, ethical issues and dilemmas, professional behaviour and the foundations of anti-oppressive social work practice in the field. Social work practice content and attendant issues are drawn from participants' non-identifying fieldwork experiences and are examined in light of available theory and practice models.
Students should be aware that there may be financial costs (parking, transportation, insurance) or specific requirements (police checks, health requirements) associated with Field Education settings. A vehicle may be required for some community-based placements and a computer, phone, and internet connection may be required for some remote placements |
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| Prerequisites | SW9701
SW9703
SW9719
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| Weight | 1.0 | Lecture Hours | |
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| Description | This course will assist students in developing the skills and confidence required to begin to engage in professional therapeutic relationships with clients in direct practice settings requiring counselling. As one of the core preparatory practice courses it provides the content essential for professional reflective practice. It also aims to provide a sample of beginning techniques for social work students to draw upon in order to negotiate mutally agreed upon goals with clients, assisting them in managing a typical range of presenting problems in social work practice. |
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| Description | This course will introduce and examine seminal theory and thought about human growth and development from birth to death within the socio/ecological and psychological contexts of the family and Western society. It will situate the individual within diverse family and social contexts such that relevant human challenges and triumphs can be explored. The course will focus on the negotiation of individual and familial developmental tasks across the lifespan, informed by multiple theoretical frameworks to ultimately engage graduate students in a depth understanding of individual and familial functioning that is informed from positivist (modern), post-modern and social constructivist stances.
Implications for social work direct practice intervention will be discussed. Social work practice responses that promote conditions that are associated with positive developmental outcomes and those that compensate for or ameliorate conditions associated with more challenging developmental outcomes will be addressed. The course emphasis will orient student to understanding the numerous personal and social conditions that enhance or inhibit adaptive developmental human functioning over the life course. The social work view of recognizing and attempting to understand people within their unique environments will be extensively explored. |
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| Description | This course is designed to prepare social work students to work effectively with Indigenous peoples and at various levels of practice with a specific focus on understanding and addressing intergenerational trauma using strengths and culture-based approaches. Students will be encouraged to critically examine how the skills and knowledge can be applied in other populations. Students enrolled in this course will have a good foundation for micro and macro social work practice. The foundation of the course is Indigenous knowledge. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | The focus of the course is on examining the policy-making process in Canada, specifically policy formulation, implementation and change. A key question in this course is how to connect policy to practice from a social justice standpoint? Dimensions of the course will include the context of policy development, citizen participation, political and social action, ways for social work practitioners to connect social policy to practice and to influence the direction and shape of social policy. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course will provide the opportunity to develop advanced direct practice skills within a strengths-based and critically reflective framework, building upon foundational interviewing skills developed in earlier direct practice courses and learning and practicing the skills of assessment and formulation documents. |
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| Description | Social issues are multifaceted and are unique to socio-political, cultural, and economic contexts. This foundation Community Social Work Practice course provides an overview of different theoretical perspectives and their analyses on contemporary social issues, a review on various community practice theories and models, and an understanding of the range of strategies and tactics for outcome-based community practice. Students will be prepared to develop an in-depth understanding of contemporary social issues and develop responsive models of intervention at macro level to achieve social and economic justice for disadvantaged groups. |
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| Description | This course engages students in a process of ethical reasoning relevant to professional social work practice. Theories of ethical reasoning are explored in day-to-day practice and in confronting controversial social issues affecting vulnerable populations. Legislation, court processes and procedures are examined in the light of their ethical and legal implications for social work practice. |
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| Description | The Research and Social Work Practice course examines how to develop, conceptualize, implement and critique social work research using a case-study based approach. The course will examine experimental, quasi-experimental, single subject, qualitative, and survey designs along with transformation research. Problem formulation and development along with pertinent measurement, sampling and descriptive and inferential statistical techniques will all be examined. |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in the Master of Social Work program |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Group work is a core social work practice modality. This introduction to group work practice course will examine the structure and formation of small groups providing participants insight into how their past group interactions shape their current group practice perspective. The focus of the course will be group work development and the role of the social worker in shaping and facilitating group work process. The course will consist of a combination lectures, discussions, experiential exercises culminating in formal student group presentations. Emphasis is placed upon understanding relationships between structural elements, interactional sequences, group purpose and functions. The relationship between group process and group task activities will be examined in depth both in theory and in applied personal practice. This class is also specifically designed to orientate you to the theory, concept and practice of conflict resolution in group settings, something traditionally ignored and avoided in traditional educational practice. |
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| Description | This course explores issues of diversity in the context of anti-oppressive and culturally informed practice at micro, mezzo and macro levels. A critical theoretical perspective is used to examine conceptual frameworks related to diversity, such as anti-oppressive practice, cultural competency, cultural humility, and multiculturalism. Students will learn culturally informed approaches to working with individual clients as well as with diverse communities. Emphasis will be placed on the use of advocacy and activism in working with oppressed individuals and groups in promoting their full participation in society and in transforming societal structures and processes that prevent such participation. The intent of this course is to equip students with the values, knowledge and skills to work effectively with individuals, families, groups and communities that reflect the diversity of Canadian society. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | The Advanced Practicum provides students with foundational knowledge of social work practice to be placed in a social work field setting where they receive additional field instruction and supervision from qualified professionals. The focus is on developing advanced knowledge and skills for direct practice with individuals, families and groups and communities. A minimum of 450 hours of supervised practice is required. Throughout the Practicum time period, students participate in an Integration Seminar led by a Faculty Consultant using a case consultation model of learning. Social work practice content and attendant issues are drawn from participants' non-identifying fieldwork experiences and are examined in light of available theory and practice models. Emphasis is placed on critical reflection on practice and evidence informed advanced practice theory and skill development demonstrated by the completion of a Reflective Practice Project, which incorporates critical reflection on practice (CRoP). Students should be aware that there may be financial costs (parking, transportation, insurance) or specific requirements (police checks, health requirements) associated with Field Education settings. A vehicle may be required for some community-based placements and a computer, phone, and internet connection may be required for some remote placements. |
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| Description | The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to advanced social work clinical practice. The course attempts to integrate selective aspects of Narrative, Experiential, and Relational theory, and to show how these ideas can be applied to social work practice with individuals, dyads and families. The course will focus on essential skills and common therapeutic factors in selective modalities of practice. Each class will be anchored in real life situations, and practice models will be examined from the perspective of problem construction, case formulation and interventions that assist clients to enhance psychosocial functioning. Conceptual models and practice wisdom will be equally valued, toward identifying 'what works, for whom and under what conditions'. Case examples will highlight the intersection between social work practice and diversity including gender, sexual orientation, spirituality, age, culture and ethnicity. Pathologizing discourses effecting client functioning will be critiqued in order to understand how professional language, problem construction and modes of intervention may perpetuate client difficulties and unequal power relations. Narrative, Experiential and Relational interventions that promote self-healing and resilience will be discussed in some detail. |
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| Description | This course provides opportunities to apply advanced research methods to evaluate social work practice. |
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| Description | This course is designed to build on the theoretical content developed in Social Work 9801A Modern and Post-Modern Social Work Direct Practice Theories and explores how theories and social work models of intervention can be applied with individuals. A specific focus on Relational (Psychodynamic) Practice and the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Interviewing Model (focused on strengths) will be studied. This course will examine these theories and/or models in greater depth with a strong focus on interactive learning exercises. The social work practice skills of interviewing/questioning, assessment, case note construction, and maintaining the therapeutic alliance through the essential skills of empathic attunement, genuineness and positive regard will be discussed and applied. |
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| Description | This course will prepare graduate students with theoretical knowledge and practice skills related to social work professional leadership and administration, reflective clinical supervision, and organizational environment analysis, within the context of social and human service organizations and a diverse society. |
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| Prerequisites | Enrolment in the MSW Program |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Focusing on the social work clinical practice students will learn through readings, lectures, assignments, guest speakers, individual and small group exercises. This course assists students in integrating critical theories into clinical practice to develop critical clinical practice strategies. To help social workers aim to be agents of change within the changing social, political, economic, historical, geographical and institutional contexts. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Given the wide and varied uses of the terms 'critical reflection' and 'reflective practice' this course will provide students with the opportunity to develop in depth skills in one particular model: Critical Reflection on Practice. This model is described by its originator as both a theory and a practice, so this course will involve students actively participating in small groups as we work through the stages of the Critical Reflection on Practice process. This will involve taking the time initially to develop the type of learning environment which ensures safety for asking one another questions about our practice in non-judgmental manners and being willing to 'unpack' our responses to incidents in practice and learning.
As we work through the stages of the Critical Reflection on Practice process we will also explore the traditions and underlying theories that have contributed to its development. Critical social theory is one of the underlying theories to this process which assists with uncovering hegemonic influences and moves this form of reflection on practice beyond mere problem solving towards an anti-oppressive form of social work inquiry (or research on direct practice) that develops new practice and theory. |
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| Description | This course provides student with an understanding of the contested nature of mental illness and the impact of significant mental health issues on the individual, the family and vulnerable populations. The main goal of the course is to assist social work practitioner in developing innovative practices for assessment and intervention with people living with a range of psychological disorders |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 hours |
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| Description | This course will address the numerous facets of trauma informed social work practice including the short and long term psychosocial, physical, cognitive, neurochemical and physiological impacts of personal, interpersonal, generational, cultural and societal trauma including war, family crisis, violence, natural disasters, and terrorism. Interventions will be discussed at length. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course provides students with an understanding of the contentious nature of mental illness and the impact of significant mental health issues on the individual, the family and vulnerable populations. The main goal of the course is to assist social work practitioners in developing innovative practices for assessment and intervention with people living with a range of psychological disorders |
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| Prerequisites | Registration in the Master of Social Work Program or a Letter of Permission from the School of Social Work. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | This course is designed to prepare social work students to work effectively with Indigenous People and at various levels of practice with a specific focus on understanding and addressing intergenerational trauma from a strengths and culture based approach. Students will be encouraged to critically examine how the skills and knowledge can be applied in other populations. Students enrolled in this course will have a good foundation for micro and macro social work practice. The foundation of the course is Indigenous Knowledge. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to develop advanced direct practice by developing the skills in a particular model of social work intervention: Narrative Practice, as developed by Michael White and David Epston. This is one of the few direct practice models developed by social workers and therefore is particularly in keeping with social work values and ethics, putting into action ideas of client self-determination, centering the knowledge and values of the people consulting us, addressing issues of power and privilege and supporting social justice concerns.
As well as learning about the underlying assumptions of Narrative Therapy, we will also discuss and describe the conversation maps which are used to support learning and movement from "the known and familiar" (problems that bring people to appointments) to the "possible to know" (alternatives) for those people consulting us. Ample practice of therapeutic conversations is provided during class time in order for students to practice these conversation maps before attempting to put them to use in places of employment or within field placements. There will also be discussion of how these narrative practices are being used within brief walk-in clinics and in community projects |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 |
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| Description | Issues in Addiction Treatment builds upon generalist social work skills providing participants the opportunity to develop in depth knowledge regarding psychoactive drugs and approaches to treat substance misuse. The course is founded upon the standpoint that addiction is a bio-psycho-social phenomenon. Content will examine the range of counselling options appropriate for intervening with those with addiction and problem gambling related issues. The intersection of addiction with oppression will be a central organizing feature of the course.
Participants will have the opportunity to engage in participant observation in the community and to lead an educational seminar on one of the interventions selected by the class in conjunction with the professor through a collaborative decision making/Delphi process. Each graduate student will provide an educational seminar based upon professional development principles in a manner to allow undergraduate colleagues to develop their own construction of addiction treatment. |
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| Description | Understanding the universal human experience of grief and loss is essential knowledge for social workers. Social workers repeatedly encounter people's losses in their practice settings, such that knowing how to listen and support people, how to integrate theory and evidence-based practices into effective human encounters, and how to offer responsive solace at the interface of personal suffering are vital professional skills to cultivate. This course will explore the many necessary knowledges and skills required to support others in their grief/bereavement, and will also consider explorations of end-of life policy (MAiD) and western, cross cultural, and spiritual contexts that inform individuals' experiences of grief and loss. |
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| Weight | 0.5 | Lecture Hours | 3 hours |
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