Sep 27, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2016-17 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2016-17 [Archived Catalog]

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SW 4224 - Child Welfare II


The second in a series of two child welfare courses. Continues with a family-centered and strength-based approach to child welfare services that addresses the developmental and permanence needs of children in the child welfare system. The Caseworker Core Training content is divided into five core modules covering: assessment in family-centered child protective services; investigative processes in family-centered child protective services; case planning and family-centered casework; child development and implications for family-centered child protective services; and separation, placement, and reunification in family-centered child protective services. Explores the phenomenon of traumatic stress as a topic of increasing importance in child welfare/social work practice and how secondary traumatic stress is derived from the social worker-client relationship. Allow social workers to prevent and intervene in secondary traumatic stress in themselves, colleagues, clients, and organizations.

Requisites: SW 4223 and 12 hour Tier II Social Sciences and Sr only
Credit Hours: 3.0
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I



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