SWRK 3325 - Community Health Interventions in the Helping Professions

This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the American Healthcare System with emphasis on three dimensions of context that have the most direct and describable consequences for the relationship between social workers and clients in healthcare settings: policies, technology, and organizational structure. Social work practice is explored in the context of interdisciplinary team membership, collaboration, case management, advocacy, and leadership. The content of the course will include current and emerging health behavior theory, practice, and research; historical and contemporary perspectives of health policy, and will include medical terminology, and strategies relevant to healthcare settings in work with individuals, families, groups, interdisciplinary teams, and service providers.