Interpersonal Practice with Adult Individuals SW 628 sec 2 Winter 2012 Thursday 2 00 5 00pm Office hours by appointment Laura Sanders LMSW 734 662 3509 createcoun comcast net classroom 3752 REQUIRED TEXTS Teyber E 2010 Interpersonal Process in Psychotherapy An Integrative Model 6th Edition Belmont CA Brooks Cole Davis M McKay M Eshelman E R 2008 The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook Oakland CA New Harbinger Sixth edition RECOMMENDED READINGS TO HELP WITH SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS Antony M M Barlow D H 2004 Handbook of Assessment and Treatment Planning for Psychological Disorders New York Guilford Beck A T Freeman A Associates 1990 Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders New York Guilford Press Eamon Mary Keegan 2008 Empowering vulnerable populations Cognitivebehavioral Interventions Chicago IL Lyceum Books Inc Fischer J Corcoran K 2007 Measures for Clinical Practice A sourcebook New York Oxford University Press Herman Judith 1992 Trauma and Recovery New York Basic Books Hudson W 1982 The Clinical Measurement Package A field manual Homewood IL Dorsey Hunter and Hickerson 2003 Affirmative Practice Understanding and Working with Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Persons NASW press Ivey A E D Andrea M Ivey M B and Simek Morgan L 2006 Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy A Multicultural Perspective 6th Edition Boston Allyn Bacon Murdock N 2008 Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy A Case Approach 2ndEdition Prentice Hall Kort J 2008 Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician New York Norton Lev Arlene Istar 2004 Transgender Emergence Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender Variant People and Their Families Hawthorn Clinical Practice Press Linehan Marsha M 1993 Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder New York Guilford Press Mellody Pia 2003 Facing Codependence San Francisco Harper Miller W R Rollnick S 2002 Motivational Interviewing New York Guilford Neukrug E S Schwitzer A M 2006 Skills and Tools for Today s Counselors and Psychotherapists Thompson Belmont CA Prochaska J O Norcross J C DiClemente 1994 Changing for Good New York Quill Real Terence 1997 I Don t Want to Talk About It New York Scribner Schwartz Richard C 1995 Internal Family Systems Therapy New York Guilford Press Turner F J 1996 Social Work Treatment Interlocking Theoretical Approaches Glencoe IL Free press Walker M and Rosen W B eds 2004 How Connections Heal Stories from Relational Cultural Therapy New York Guilford Press Wood J 2010 2007 Interpersonal Communication Everyday Encounters 6th Edition Wadsworth Cengage Learning Books on reserve in Social Work Library are marked with Course Description This course will approach work with individual clients from a person inenvironment perspective and build on the content presented in course SW521 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 the key diversity dimensions such as ability age class color culture ethnicity family structure gender including gender identity and gender expression marital status national origin race religion or spirituality sex and sexual orientation including identification of one s own social and cultural identities and group memberships and how these relate to working with clients colleagues and other professionals The course will emphasize time limited treatment methods and practice with involuntary clients Course Content This course will present several models of intervention designed to prevent and treat psychosocial problems of individual adults Emphasis will be placed on approaches that enhance social functioning strengthen problem solving capacities and support the coping capacities of individual adults The various models will be time limited responsive to the impact of social environments and supported by empirically based efficacy studies e g stress management and stress reduction models Treatment models that focus on specific psychosocial problems associated with work relationships mood anxiety and impulse problems will be discussed Several treatment models will be presented such as Brief Psychodynamic Therapy Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for depression and anxiety Task Centered Practice Focused Analytic Single Session interventions Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression etc These intervention models will also be evaluated for how well they fit the special needs of diverse populations within the key diversity dimensions Each model that is presented will cover all phases of the intervention process engagement and screening assessment planning evaluation implementation and termination Although evaluation will be discussed in much greater depth in the Practice Area evaluation courses students will learn how to integrate evaluation techniques and measures into their on going interventions with individual adults so that they can employ systematic measures of their effectiveness in the field This course will carefully explore the issues that influence and determine client motivation because many individual adults come into the treatment process with varying degrees of willingness and sometimes are coerced to seek help by authorities or family members Strategies that workers can employ to engage reluctant or resistant clients will be presented Intervention models in this course will be general enough to apply to a wide range of adult clients in a wide range of adult situations since other courses will focus more specifically on special populations and problems Course content will include ethical issues that relate to interpersonal practice with individual adults and those elements of the NASW code of ethics that especially impact on practice with individual adults e g boundary and comportment issues between worker and client 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 including the indications and contraindications of various IP models 2 Assess the effectiveness of various kinds