SOCW623C Culturally Informed Behavioral Health Practice III
This four-course sequence provides students with methods and skills for behavioral health social work practice in California’s publicly funded behavioral health system, including government and non-profit behavioral health agencies, schools, health centers, and hospitals, among other settings. Students will build skills for engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation with individuals, families, and small groups using evidence-based practices. In this third course, students learn how to provide telehealth, apply a recovery model approach, conduct group interventions, and use translators for providing services in different clinic and field settings. The course focuses on disability, and individual forms of impairment experienced by individuals with moderate, severe, and chronic mental illness, collaboration and advocacy with disability and welfare related services and agencies and managing disability payee programs. The population of focus is children, youth, adults, and older adults at risk of or experiencing disability. Students will learn about documentation requirements and how to write case notes.