P411 – Social Work in Schools
This course surveys the knowledge base and skills for effective social work practice in schools. Students will explore complex issues involving blending educational and social work approaches to assessment, making evidence-based intervention decisions, working across service delivery systems, bridging the home-school boundary, and negotiating being both an advocate for children and families as well as being a mandatory reporter of suspected child abuse. Course content is delivered via a multi-tiered based approach addressing school social work practice at macro, mezzo, and micro levels.