Taught By:
Vernon Loke
Professor
School of Social Work
Eastern Washington University
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Course Description:
This course examines social work as a policy-based profession and social workers as policy practitioners. Advanced seminars on current policy and program developments in contemporary areas of social welfare that impact populations at-risk, e.g. health care, aging, mental health and services to children and families. Seminars provide research and theory pertaining to social problems and institutional responses. Three domains of institutional response—legal, professional and program—are covered.
