SW-511: The Collaborative Clinician

The Collaborative Clinician continues the program's focus on clinical practice methods, exploring the need for integrated care that fully or partially blends social and behavioral health services with general or specialty medical services. This course extends the program's focus on person-centered care and the promotion of social and economic justice by emphasizing the unique role of social workers in diverse interdisciplinary settings, including in rural and frontier geographic areas, given their person-in-environment perspective and understanding that individual health and well-being are intimately affected by mezzo and macro-level factors that transcend the immediate environment of care. To support the development of knowledge and skills that facilitate collaborative care, students will learn modalities utilized in collaborative practice - where they will learn with, from, and about other disciplines social workers may encounter in clinical settings - even in private practice.