MSW MENTAL HEALTH IN SOCIAL WORK

Competently engage, evaluate, intervene, and evaluate in mental health practice, with individuals, couples, families, and groups, representing clients across the life span.

Employ a full life span practice perspective that recognizes the interrelated dimensions of human development including physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual.

Employ an ecological perspective in assessment and intervention, which recognizes that individual development is influenced by the individual’s environment including family, culture, community, natural environment, and global contexts.

Assess and intervene from a strengths perspective that is sensitive to client diversity and issues of oppression and discrimination.

Recognize that clients face multiple challenges (e.g., mental health, physical health, occupational/educational, substance abuse, legal) that often require multiple-level responses from multidisciplinary teams of professionals and other community members.

Summarize the importance of professionals and other community members.

Select intervention strategies that differentially fit the needs and characteristics of the client system identified in assessment.

Develop and utilize conscious-use-of-self in establishing effective helping relationships.

Describe the role of culture, class, geography and gender in access to and utilization of mental health services in Utah, the United States, and international settings.

Apply and critique the NASW Code of Ethics in assessment and interventions in mental health practice settings.

Effectively resolve ethical and value-based challenges in practice. Utilize practice-based evidence and evidence-based practice strategies to inform their practice in mental health settings.

The University of Utah College of Social Work is dedicated to providing outstanding education and training to the professional social workers of tomorrow. Through education, research, and community engagement, the College of Social Work advances the transformation of policies, practices, and interventions to alleviate human suffering, enhance well-being, and promote social justice.

The University of Utah College of Social Work, established in 1937, is a leader in social work education in the Intermountain West. The College offers students an inclusive and challenging learning environment where students are encouraged to collaborate with faculty, peers, and community partners in analyzing and resolving critical social problems.