Urban Black Families (SWK 701)
Term: 2015 - 2016 Graduate Spring
Schedule
Fri-Sun, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (3/7/2016 - 5/2/2016) Location: MAIN MCH 204
Sun, 9:15 AM - 9:16 AM (3/7/2016 - 5/2/2016) Location: MAIN ONLIN ONLIN
Description
SWK 701 Urban Black Families Three Credit Hours
This advanced practice course will expand the development and application of empowerment and strengths-based interventions for the purpose of creating alternative ?Cultural Paradigm? /African centered healing models for clinical practice with African/Black American families. The course will combine a historical overview of African/Black American families with an emphasis on the obstacles they encountered that posed threats to healthy development and family functioning. Shifting the analysis of this oppressed group from an examination based on race to that of culture. Special attention is devoted to unraveling the effects of African cultural legacies, slavery, and institutional racism on urban Black family life. The Black helping tradition and presence of African cultural values in current urban Black life will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on appro