Mar 29, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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SW 3283 - Social Work in Health Care


Provides an overview of health care policy and service delivery and the roles filled by social workers. Examines the ways services are perceived by and delivered to diverse populations, emphasizing social work values.

Requisites: SW 1000
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Analyze critically specific health policies and their implications for social work practice, including concerns for issues of social and economic justice, discrimination and oppression.
  • Demonstrate a conceptualization of health issues which builds on strengths based and ecological approach.
  • Evaluate the influence of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, religion on the health systems¿ interaction with clients.
  • Identify and analyze ethical dilemmas for social work practice in health settings.
  • Identify the role of social work in interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork.
  • Learn methods of engagement, assessment, contracting and intervention appropriate with the clients in health care setting,especially discharge planning, terminal and chronic illness, decision making, case management and long term care will be.
  • Understand how managed care is reshaping the role of social work in health care.
  • Understand the historical and current roles of social workers in health care settings.



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