COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course introduces the multiple roles social workers play in health care delivery and explores challenges faced by social workers in these settings. Health care includes preventive, curative and palliative services and interventions that are delivered to individuals or populations. The course highlights a multidimensional approach to health and describes the social determinants of health framework to link critical social work theory to health care practice. Legal and clinical issues social workers encounter within a complex and rapidly changing health care system will be explored. Students will have an opportunity to explore health care policies and foundational clinical skills commonly used in advanced professional practice in hospitals, rehabilitation, family practice and long-term care.
STRUCTURE & FORMAT
This course's weekly learning activities will include three hours per week of in-class time throughout the fall term (September 7 to December 7, 2023). Course objectives will be achieved through various opportunities such as participating in seminar-style discussions with your peers and course instructor, listening to and viewing lectures and presentations and reviewing related audio-visual material. Please note that elements of the course are subject to change.
- Teacher: Charles Furlotte