Clinical Practice with Individuals

SSW CP 770

Deepening their skills of differential assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals , students assess client cases and develop intervention plans. Three therapeutic approaches are used for this work: Cognitive, Behavioral and Psychodynamic. Students present cases from the field for analysis and class discussion through these lenses: Cognitive, (focus on the domains of thoughts, feelings and behavior), Behavioral (focus on monitoring and reinforcing positive behavior), and Psychodynamic (focus on dysfunctional childhood patterns that get repeated in the present). Demonstration videos and in-class skills practice show clinician approaches from these three perspectives. Students will use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to make initial diagnoses.