[iDiversity] Social Work Practice with African American Families/ Soc W 592A

[Cynthia del Rosario]

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From: On Behalf Of UW Social Work Student Services

Please share the following course information with your students if appropriate:

Soc W 592A Social Work Practice with African American Families
Instructor: Steve Wilson
SLN 17715
Meets M 6:00-8:50PM in SWS 38
Open to graduate students
Juniors and Seniors: Contact the instructor (wilsonst at u.washington.edu)
for permission

Course Description:  This course introduces students to the study of 
African American families from a historical, socio-cultural, and political 
perspective. Students will be introduced to various theories for 
understanding African Americans families and the various debates that 
characterize the interpretation of these theories. Using a life course 
perspective, the course will examine the diversity among families within 
African American communities, and the effect of larger demographic, 
political, and social changes on African American family functioning. The 
course addresses traditional Eurocentric thought around prevention and 
treatment strategies and policy implementation, and will present 
culturally relevant views as challenges to these perspectives. This course 
will also focus on strategies and intervention practices from an 
Afrocentric perspective and effective practices in African descent 
communities. Through the integration of theoretical and practice content 
on African American families and the larger social, economic and political 
systems, students will develop knowledge needed for effective and 
accountable social work practice with African American families.

I am a clinical social worker in private practice. I began working with 
children and families in 1979 in the San Francisco Bay area and have since 
worked in multiple settings, including outpatient and inpatient 
psychiatric; schools; foster care; juvenile corrections alternative 
schools; substance abuse prevention and treatment; and homeless youth.  In 
addition I provide consultation on cross-cultural treatment issues for a 
number of agencies throughout the Puget Sound region.  This consultation 
focuses mainly on work with families of African descent. I have been on 
the faculty of the University of Washington School of Social Work since 
1998. I am currently a doctoral student at Smith college school for social 
work.

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