Social Work · Boston College
Elective This advanced clinical practice course examines effective assessment and intervention with persons of diverse cultural backgrounds. Recognizing that culture is always a salient factor in social work practice, special attention is given to the need for practitioners to have an approach that ensures practitioners' awareness of culture, and incorporation of culture into practice skills, while supporting the cultural identity of the client. Understanding culture and the dynamics of power as contextual factors determining people's realities - and consequently the values and behavioral ada
