SK432
Health Care and Social Work Practice
0.5 Credit

Hours per week:
  • Lecture/Discussion: 3

This seminar course will critically examine the role of social work within the Canadian healthcare system. Topics will include social work practice in hospital and community health care settings; interdisciplinary practice; bioethics and decision-making processes; health and mental health across the lifespan (e.g., psycho-geriatrics, end of life care); and the social determinants of health. A critical lens will be adopted to understanding how the medical model and biomedicine have shaped the categorization of health and disease, roles of health-related disciplines, and provision of health care resources.

Additional Course Information
Prerequisites
SK311, SK312, SK313, SK314, SK315, SK321, SK322, SK399‡ and year 4 status in the Bachelor of Social Work program.