SCWK 8872 Advanced Clinical Interventions with Children, Youth, and Families

Required of Clinical Social Work students in the Children, Youth and Families Field-of-Practice; elective for others. An advanced clinical course focused on the development of specific intervention skills utilized with children and their families. Clinical practice skills in individual, family, and group treatments highlight prevention and intervention strategies that promote self-efficacy and resiliency. Specific skills include parent management training, parent-child interaction therapy, solution-focused therapy with children, adolescents, and their families, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, and group therapy with children. Course structure will utilize experiential skills labs to promote student skill acquisition.

Course overview

Department
Social Work
School
SSW
Credits
3
Level
Graduate
Offered
Every Fall

Catalog details

Prerequisites
SCWK7762
Corequisites
SCWK9933 or permission

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Requirements fulfilled

No source-backed degree requirement is attached to this course yet.

Official evaluation summary

4.08 / 5

Based on 249 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Data freshness

Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-08-02. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

Instructors

  • Carolyn Romano
    Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021 · Official rating 4.72/5
  • Elisabeth Sandoe
    Fall 2021 · Official rating 2.33/5
  • Rebecca Brigham
    Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023 · Official rating 4.43/5
  • Susan Tohn
    Fall 2022, Fall 2021 · Official rating 4.00/5
  • Tsana Dimanin
    Fall 2025, Fall 2023 · Official rating 3.77/5

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