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• SOWK 731: Practice Skills in Forensic Social Work

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will provide graduate students with social work knowledge and skills required for working with clients involved in various aspects of the legal system. Students will be introduced to practice skills in areas including child welfare, juvenile justice, corrections, addiction, and diversion including treatment with both victims of crime and perpetrators.
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• SOWK 732: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This course will provide students with an indepth look at post-traumatic stress disorder, the etiology, symptomology, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment interventions. Students will also explore the impact and challenges for families.
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• SOWK 733: Disaster Management

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will provide students with an understanding of the roles of disaster managers. Students will apply this knowledge to all phases of disaster management.
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• SOWK 734: Trauma-Informed Care

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will provide students with an understanding of trauma-informed care and how to apply these concepts in their social work practice and effectively assist those impacted by trauma.
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• SOWK 736: Social Work With Families Impacted By Trauma

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course explores the impact of violence/crime, natural disasters, combat, and other trauma causing events on families. The changing relationship dynamics between adult partners and children and parents from initial events through recovery is given special emphasis. The course content includes an overview of the multiple consequences of trauma from a bio-psycho-social perspective, including resiliency and traumatic growth. Students will be introduced to evidence based interventions.
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• SOWK 737: Behavioral Health Services in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students will learn to identify adverse childhood experiences and assess the impact of these experiences on children and adolescents' emotional and behavioral functioning. Students will acquire the ability to identify risks for recurring adverse experiences in the child welfare and the juvenile justice systems. Evidenced-based practices and pathways to recovery will be learned. Students will learn how to identify opportunities for collaboration between systems, understand the barriers to collaboration, develop skills to overcome barriers and maintain collaborative relationships. The course will discuss current evidenced based and promising behavioral health practice approaches currently being use in child welfare and juvenile justice settings.
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• SOWK 738: Intervention for Sexual Assault and Interpersonal Violence

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will focus on social forces, prevalence, dynamics, types, effects, assessment and interventions specific to trauma in interpersonal violence. Students will learn about individual and group intervention strategies specific to trauma and violence, including evidence-based models, crisis intervention, and cognitive-behavioral models.
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• SOWK 739: Forensic Social Work in Corrections

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students will gain and demonstrate knowledge and skills to effectively assist those involved in the criminal justice system. This course applies social work processes to clients in correctional settings. Students will learn how to assess and treat various issues common to those who are incarcerated, such as needs of female offenders, substance abuse, mental health, personality disorders and sex offenses.
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• SOWK 740: Animal-Assisted Social Work

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Animal-Assisted Social Work Practice. This course will provide students with a foundation of animal-assisted social work practice. Integration of therapy animals into all aspects of practice will be discussed, to include assessment, intervention, evaluation as well as individual, group, family, and community levels of practice.
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• SOWK 741: Grief & Loss: Theory & Skills for Intervention

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course explores the psychosocial process of grief and bereavement following a loss. Divorce, disaster, deployment, death, and other human experiences of loss will be discussed. This course will focus on the experiences of loss, grief, and bereavement as experienced by individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. We will consider how grief shapes lives, challenges ones response to change, and can determine how one forms, maintains, and lets go of relationships. This course will examine theories of grief and loss across the lifespan. In addition, we will consider how social factors i.e., culture, ethnicity/race, gender, class, ethics/values, and sexual orientation may impact the grieving process. We will understand and implement evidence based interventions to address grief and loss related issues. In the process of examining these, students will become aware and sensitized to ones own attitudes, beliefs, and reactions to experiences of loss.
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