Child and Family Well-Being - Micro Practice

This course will present prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation practice theories and techniques emphasizing culturally responsive and evidence-informed interventions that address diverse groups of infants, children, and youth within their social contexts.(e.g., peer group, school, family, neighborhood, and communities).

A range of evidence-based intervention approaches will be presented such as cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoeducation, parent-child relationship and behavioral therapy, parent management training, multi-tiered school based interventions as well as bottom-up, sensori-motor interventions that are aimed at preventing or repairing emotional and behavioral dysregulation. Intervention strategies taught in this course rely significantly on the social worker as a critical component of the change process.