Social Work · Boston College
Elective This course provides a foundation for understanding and implementing mental health and psychosocial perspectives in adverse and systemically under-resourced contexts, and among culturally diverse populations in the United States and abroad. The interventions explored are grounded in a trauma-informed framework and designed for an array of settings such as immigrant detention, juvenile justice settings, child welfare, and places and populations affected by community violence, forced and irregular migration, and conflict. Frameworks and policy interventions that strengthen community res
