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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Course evaluations

Response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations (Avalanche/Blue).

Course rating
4.08 / 5 · Very Good
249 responses
Instructor rating
4.43 / 5 · Very Good
249 responses
Terms evaluated
5
Most recent: Fall 2025

Scales: overall ratings run from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent); agreement questions from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree); weekly effort from 1 (up to 1 hour) to 5 (10 or more hours).

Evaluations by term and instructor
TermInstructorCourse overallInstructor overallWell organizedClear learning objectivesIntellectually challengingHelpful assignmentsApplicable beyond courseAttendance necessaryWeekly effortResponses
Fall 2025Carolyn Romano4.54.74.84.74.54.44.74.61–3 hrs/week33 of 47
Fall 2025Rebecca Brigham3.94.44.64.74.54.54.54.61–3 hrs/week14 of 22
Fall 2025Tsana Dimanin3.84.04.74.64.33.94.64.64–6 hrs/week15 of 17
Fall 2024Carolyn Romano4.54.54.74.84.54.34.74.61–3 hrs/week28 of 43
Fall 2024Rebecca Brigham4.64.44.74.74.34.34.84.61–3 hrs/week9 of 16
Fall 2023Carolyn Romano4.54.84.74.74.54.54.84.81–3 hrs/week33 of 41
Fall 2023Rebecca Brigham4.64.44.74.64.54.74.84.91–3 hrs/week14 of 18
Fall 2023Tsana Dimanin3.53.54.14.44.33.64.24.34–6 hrs/week11 of 21
Fall 2022Carolyn Romano4.04.74.64.84.64.24.74.61–3 hrs/week33 of 40
Fall 2022Susan Tohn3.24.14.14.24.23.54.24.4—18 of 23
Fall 2021Carolyn Romano4.14.84.64.74.53.94.64.64–6 hrs/week22 of 40
Fall 2021Elisabeth Sandoe2.82.34.54.04.52.74.04.04–6 hrs/week6 of 20
Fall 2021Susan Tohn3.43.94.34.34.73.94.34.24–6 hrs/week13 of 22

Data freshness

Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-10-09. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

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