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Dec 26, 2024
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SWK 669 - Crisis Intervention 3 Credit Hours
This course prepares students to understand and provide crisis intervention in a variety of settings including medical and mental health facilities, schools, emergency response departments, community centers, and neighborhoods. Crises will be defined and specific models for assessment and intervention will be described and applied to case examples. A special focus of the course will be the prevention of and response to suicide as well as debriefing for groups affected by large-scale disasters. Models and interventions will also be examined for their inclusion of strength and resiliency perspective, and their efficacy with at-risk populations as influenced by gender, sexual orientation, spirituality, ethnicity, and poverty and other environmental factors. This course is concerned with exploring crisis intervention approaches, models and strategies. Emphasis will be on examining the nature of crisis, basic crisis intervention skills and strategies and the application of these skills to a number of specific conditions and situations including; suicide, sexual assault and abuse, HIV / AIDS, addiction, childhood PTSD and foster care involvement, bullying students, and disaster response. Additional course content will examine the effects of crisis and crisis intervention work on the social worker and the importance of developing self-assessment skills and healthy practice guidelines.
Prerequisite(s): All 500 level social work courses
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