Intellectual Disabilities in Social Work Practice

Overview

Subject area

SSW

Catalog Number

79735

Course Title

Intellectual Disabilities in Social Work Practice

Department(s)

Description

This course is designed to enhance the social work students' ability to practice social work with and on behalf of people with intellectual/developmental disabilities and their families. The course provides a base of knowledge about developmental disabilities and differences, their causes and characteristics. Students will learn how disabilities and learning differences impact personal, familial, educational, social, and economic dimensions for the individual, family and society, with attention to the person's special life cycle needs and characteristics. The course also emphasizes legislative, programmatic, political, economic, and theoretical formulations fundamental to service delivery.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring

Academic Career

Graduate

Liberal Arts

No

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

3

Course Schedule