The School of Social Work

Interprofessional Educational Opportunities for
Health Professional Students Interested in Aging

The Aging Specialization prepares students for work with older persons and provides students with the requisite knowledge base for the field. The specialization is available to students in both the Clinical and Management and Community Organization concentrations. The specialization prepares graduates to assist organizations and agencies in their efforts to help older persons function at the highest level possible in both community and residential settings. The Aging Specialization provides a basic knowledge of the field of aging, including knowledge of programs and policies directed toward older persons as well as an ability to analyze and evaluate these programs. The specialization also provides a theoretical base that includes interdisciplinary content crucial to working in the field of aging, background in past and current research in the field and the opportunity to develop skills specific to working effectively with older clients and in programs and organizations targeted toward older persons and their needs.

Clinical Courses

• Aging and Social Policy
• Approaches to Aging
• Evaluation Research or Single System Research or Independent
• Research Project
• Paradigms of Clinical Social Work Practice
• Clinical Social Work with the Aging and their Families
• Psychopathology
• Advanced Clinical Field Instruction

Total of 28 credits

All courses credits are 3 credits except for the Advanced Clinical Field instruction which is 10 credits.

Electives:

The Geriatric Imperative Minimester
Interdisciplinary Team Practice in Geriatrics

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