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Nancy Farwell
SOC W 514
Seattle Campus
Focus on the teaching of practice skills (micro, mezzo, and/or macro) associated with key contemporary themes in social work. Possible topics include social work with American Indian communities, adult interpersonal violence, and assessment and brief intervention in substance abuse and dependence. Offered: SpS.
Class description
Global Perspectives in Social Work: A HBSE Approach
Global Perspectives in Social Work provides an introduction to development perspectives, selected global social issues, and practice approaches, primarily in developing countries. The impact of global interdependence and development frameworks on local problems and solutions is examined. The major part of the course focuses on global social issues with particular attention to practitioner roles in social work and social development. Students are encouraged to investigate ways in which individual problems relate to structural issues, how to utilize participatory approaches in community assessment and change, and how problem-solving skills used in an empowerment framework can address situations in which people experience discrimination and marginalization. Power dynamics in the context of helping, and the importance of critical consciousness within one's role as practitioner and facilitator are examined.
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