T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I C H I G A N SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK Domenic Tamborriello MSW CSW 210 Collingwood Suite 120 Ann Arbor Ml 48103 Cell 734 649 7092 Office 734 665 4926 Email domenict umich edu Spring 2003 Course Title Division Number Class Number Credit Hours Prerequisites Location Interpersonal Practice With Adult Individuals 778 628 Section 001 Course Number 8034 3 SW521 SWS4O BSW or permission of instructor Advanced Interpersonal Practice Methods Course Room 2032 School of Education Building 1080 South University Avenue Office Hours by request 1 Course Description This course will approach work with individual clients from a person in environment perspective and build on the content presented in course 521 540 i e Interpersonal Practice and equivalent courses The stages of the treatment process i e engagement assessment planning evaluation intervention and termination will be presented for work with individual adults The relevance and limitations of various theoretical approaches will be reviewed as they apply to assessment planning and intervention methods This course will focus on empirically evaluated models of intervention and will teach students how to monitor and evaluate their own practice Special attention will be given to issues of diversity i e race gender ethnicity class sexual orientation and spiritual orientation of the client 1 2 Course Content This course will present various models of intervention designed to prevent and treat psychosocial problems of individual adults Students will be encouraged to treat each client with the utmost respect for their personhood the uniqueness of their presenting problems and the unique resources both internally and externally they can bring to bear on their situation All manner of life challenges will be considered including work and career stressors alcoholism and other addictions current family and family of origin issues relationships with significant others and race sex class and any other form of discrimination or oppression A wide range of therapeutic approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Narrative Rational Emotive Jungian Group Therapy options Traumatic Incident Reduction Family Systems Reality Therapy Hypnosis Assertiveness Training Role playing and Metaphorical interventions using storytelling and writing exercises will be introduced More recent therapeutic interventions such as EMDR and Poetry Therapy will also be considered Matters of race sex sexual orientation class ethnicity and spiritual orientation will be considered in the application of all evaluation intervention and assessment models 3 Course Objectives Upon completion of the course students will be able to 1 Describe how theory informs and shapes the kinds of intervention strategies that may be employed when working with individual adults 2 Assess the effectiveness of various kinds of interventions models and procedures that may be utilized with individual adults 3 Operationalize the various intervention phases of prevention and treatment models that effectively impact the psycho social problems of individual adults 4 Identify common factors that determine client motivation in adults and how to apply specific interventions to enhance readiness for client change 5 Modify intervention models to take into account race gender ethnicity social class sexual orientation spiritual orientation and special abilities of adult clients 6 Operationalize the NASW Code of Ethics as it applies to value dilemmas in interpersonal practice with adults 2 4 Course Design This course will employ a range of methods to promote knowledge and skill development Experiential learning will be emphasized whenever possible through problem solving exercises role playing in class writing assignments cooperative learning techniques and audio visual exercises that may include case simulations or presentations Reading assignments will be designed to maximize the internalization of the material Didactic presentations of theory models procedures will be used to maximize student participation and discussion Whenever possible assignments will be tied to the field placement experiences of the students Students will be encouraged to use their internal experience of their clients as a guiding principal in all assessment strategies and the development and deployment of interventions 5 Relationship of the Course to Four Curricular Themes 1 Multiculturalism and Diversity will be addressed through careful analysis of how clinical models can be applied and modified to fit the special needs of various groups Resistance and motivation of adults to interventions will be covered to demonstrate how effective intervention models must be adapted to fit the needs of various ethnic and racial groups This course will emphasize that mono cultural clinical models must be adapted to fit the definitions of problem and treatment that exist in diverse groups in order for social workers to practice with adults from diverse backgrounds 2 Social Justice and Social Change will be addressed by recognizing that historically clinical services have excluded poor and oppressed clients from talking therapies Often these clients were given the harshest and most restrictive treatments e g shock sterilization medications and lobotomies whereas more privileged clients were granted more benign interventions e g outpatient family therapy This course will examine these difficulties as well as how socioeconomic exclusion arises in screening criteria that excludes clients because of intelligence verbal ability insight and motivation 3 Promotion Prevention Treatment and Rehabilitation will be addressed through a focus on intervention models and intervention procedures that can be used to prevent and treat psychosocial problems of adults 4 Behavioral and Social Science Research will be addressed through careful selection of intervention models for which there is empirical evidence of efficacy Students will learn that although many time limited models of practice with adults have proliferated over the past two decades not all of them have generated research that demonstrates their efficacy 3 6 Relationship of the Course to Social Work Ethics and Values In working with adults social workers must encourage self determination and empower adult clients to chose and pursue their own change goals Ethical issues such as sexual relations between clients and worker involuntary treatment primacy of client interests and precipitous