Social Work Mental Health - Roberts Wesleyan College

Social Work Mental Health from Roberts Wesleyan College is a Campus Master Counseling degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. At the foundation level, (the first year in the Roberts two year program) the curricular emphasis is upon providing basic social work values, knowledge, and skills enabling the student to work with client systems of various sizes at a beginning professional level. These basics are commonly referred to as \\\"generalist practice.\\\" Brown (1982) describes generalist practice in this way: Generalist social work practice consists of assisting individuals, families, small groups, and larger social systems to work on change which promotes the best possible relationship between people and their environment. In this process, all social work methods - traditional and innovative - are utilized, singly or in combination, to meet reality needs and to alleviate stresses in ways that enhance or strengthen the inherent capacities of client systems. Generalist practice is addressed to the solution and/or prevention of problems at all levels of intervention: intrapersonal, familial, interpersonal, organizational, community, institutional, and societal (p. 123). Generalist values, knowledge and skills at Roberts build on an undergraduate liberal arts base with requisite knowledge about basic human systems, including human biological systems, psychological systems, sociological systems, and the humanities. During the foundation year, students are presented with a graduate level exposure to the common body of social work knowledge, values, and skills, with special attention given to values and ethics, diversity, economic and social justice issues, and at-risk populations including low-income populations. The Spiritually Enriched Ecological Systems, described previously in some detail, provides the framework which allows for coherent analysis and interpretation of human behavior. Social work practice during the foundation year assesses client transactions within the unique array of social dynamics and social systems as framed by the Strengths Oriented Life Model. Intervention planning is based on the needs of the particular client system being served and mutually identified with the client system. Practice goals are built around the strengths of client systems as central to the practice effort. Through use of dialogue and collaboration with client systems, professional use of self is instilled whereby students use a variety of methods. View more details on Roberts Wesleyan College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Counseling courses.