Section outline

  • Topic: Introduction to the Course

    A.    Brief introductions.

    B.    Overview of the course and syllabus and a discussion of the class assignments

    Topic:  Clinical Social Work with Children and Adolescents- An Overview

    A.     A brief history of social work with youth.

    B.     The changing social ecology of childhood and adolescence in the United States.

    -The impact of socio-economic factors

    -The impact of new media

    C.    Some thoughts around the training of child and adolescent clinicians.  The essential knowledge base of clinical social work with youth.  The three major theoretical paradigms.

    Topic: An overview of the developmental-ecological approach to the biopsychosocial       

                assessment of youth.

    1. Development and maturation in children.
    2. The potential impact of poverty and family stress on normal development and maturation.

    Required Reading:

    -Boyd-Webb, N. (2019) Chapters 1 and 2.

    -Perry, B. (2007) Introduction; Chapter 1, “Tina’s World”.

    -"Teen Lives, Interrupted By COVID- Young New Yorkers grapple with the pandemics mental toll".  The New Yorker, February 14, 2022.  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/coronavirus-teens-coping-with-the-pandemic

    Recommended:

    -Jenkins, H., Ito, M., boyd, d. (2016) “Youth culture, youth practices”, in Participatory Culture in a Networked Era.  Polity Press, Malden, MA. on Moodle.

    -Julian, K. “Why are Young People Are Having Less Sex”, The Atlantic, December, 2018

    -“Social Media Use in 2021” Pew Research Center Study, 

    -“‘I Feel Like I’m Just Drowning’: Sophomore Year in a Pandemic” by Susan Dominus.  NYTimes Magazine, May16, 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/magazine/high-school-students-coronavirus-pandemic.html