SW-535: Crisis Intervention

The course presents various theories and techniques for assessment, intervention, and follow-up with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations in high stress situations requiring immediate crisis intervention. A variety of emergency/crisis situations will be explored, such as threats or acts of suicide, threats of serious injury or homicide, serious symptoms of mental illness that require urgent response, sexual assault and partner violence, and bereavement and grief issues. The course will attend to ethical issues surrounding intervening with those in critical need, as well as how various aspects of diversity and difference, discrimination, marginalization, and oppression, affect crisis intervention. Prerequisite: SW 515 or Admission to Advanced Standing MSW Program.