Advanced Social Work Practice: Substance Abuse Intervention

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Lecture, two and one half hours; outside study, nine hours. Corequisite: required social work practicum. Advanced-level, critical analysis of major intervention approaches—individual, family, group, and environmental—to treating substance abuse and dependency. Specific attention to skills and self-awareness to integrate biological, psychological, and social factors in assessing and intervening with substance-using clients and target populations. S/U or letter grading.