Social Work
As one of the modern helping disciplines, social work fulfills a strategic function in the field of social services. The social work profession is concerned with the wide range of human and environmental factors, and processes that influence social functioning in contemporary life. It seeks to alleviate and prevent personal and social problems experienced by individuals, families, groups and communities, and to contribute to constructive institutional change and development.
The educational program of the faculty is designed to prepare specially qualified personnel for the many forms of direct clinical and community practice, and for the related professional functions of policy development, planning, administration and research. In all of these areas there is a growing demand, in both governmental and voluntary sectors, for social workers who possess advanced, theoretical knowledge and specialized practice competence.
Department Information on this page
Full-time Faculty
- Robert Basso, PhD (Toronto), Associate Professor of Social Work
- Cheryl-Anne Cait, PhD (Smith), Assistant Professor of Social Work
- Gary Cameron, DSW and Certificate in Advanced Social Welfare (Columbia), Professor of Social Work
- Lea Caragata, PhD (Toronto), Associate Professor of Social Work
- Nick Coady, PhD (Toronto), Professor of Social Work
- Peter Dunn, PhD (Brandeis), Associate Professor of Social Work
- Marshall Fine, PhD (East Texas State), Professor of Social Work
- Luke Fusco, MA (Chicago), Associate Professor of Social Work ; Dean of the Faculty of Social Work
- Martha Kuwee Kumsa, PhD (Toronto), Assistant Professor of Social Work
- Ginette Lafreniere, PhD (McGill), Assistant Professor of Social Work
- Judith Levene, PhD (Toronto), Associate Professor of Social Work
- Sarah Maiter, PhD (Toronto), Associate Professor of Social Work
- Deena Mandell, PhD (Toronto), Associate Professor of Social Work
- Shoshana Pollack, PhD (Toronto), Associate Professor of Social Work
- Malcolm Saulis, MSW (WLU), Associate Professor of Social Work
- Carol Stalker, PhD (Smith), Associate Professor of Social Work
- Eli Teram, PhD (McGill), Professor of Social Work
- Barbara Waterfall, MSW (Carleton), Lecturer in Social Work
- Anne Westhues, DSW (Columbia), Professor of Social Work
PhD Cognate Faculty at Laurier
- Mark C. Baetz, PhD (Western), Professor of Business
- Edward Bennett, PhD (Case Western Reserve), Professor of Psychology
- Tupper F. Cawsey, PhD (Western), Professor of Business
- Juanne Clarke, PhD (Waterloo), Professor of Sociology
- Cynthia Comacchio, PhD (Guelph), Professor of History
- Richard C. Crossman, PhD (Chicago), Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics and Systematic Theology
- Gene Deszca, PhD (York), Professor of Business
- Carol Duncan, PhD (York), Associate Professor of Religion and Culture
- Peter Eglin, PhD (UBC), Professor of Sociology
- Patricia Elliot, PhD (York), Associate Professor of Sociology
- Robert Gebotys, PhD (Toronto), Associate Professor of Psychology
- C. Ruth Harris, PhD (Waterloo), Associate Professor of Business
- Cheryl Harvey, PhD (Western), Associate Professor of Business
- William L. Marr, PhD (Western), Professor of Economics
- Douglas J. McCready, PhD (Alberta), Professor of Economics
- Kim Morouney, PhD (Alberta), Associate Professor of Business
- Geoff Nelson, PhD (Manitoba), Professor of Psychology ; WLU Research Professor
- Leslie O'Dell, PhD (Toronto), Associate Professor of English and Film Studies
- Mark Pancer, PhD (Waterloo), Professor of Psychology
- Christopher F. J. Ross, PhD (Calgary), Associate Professor of Religion and Culture
- Richard Walsh-Bowers, PhD (York), Professor of Psychology
Cognate Faculty
Part-time Faculty
- Janos Botschner, PhD (Guelph)
- Jon Boyd, MSW (WLU)
- Sandra Campbell, PhD (WLU)
- Nancy Freymond, MSW (WLU)
- Jill Grant, MSW (WLU)
- Heather Hair, MA (WLU) ; MSC (Guelph)
- gus hill, MSW (WLU)
- Angela Hovey, MSW (WLU)
- Jonathan Lomotey, MA (WLU)
- Shehenaz Manji, MSW (WLU)
- Susan Neeb, MSW (WLU)
- Marg Notar, MSW (WLU)
- Nancy Riedel Bowers, PhD (WLU)
- Kate Ross-Rudow, MSW (WLU)
- Barbara Schwarzentruber, MSW (WLU)
- Kristina Trim, MA (McMaster)
- Kristin Trotter, PhD (WLU)
- Wanda wagler-martin, MSW (WLU)
- Margriet Wright, MSW (WLU)
Course Offerings
| Course # | Title | Credits |
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| SK500 |
Human Development in Context |
0.5 |
| SK501 |
Community Interventions: Theory and Practice Essentials |
0.5 |
| SK504 |
Assessment of Social Work Practice |
0.5 |
| SK507 |
Diversity, Marginalisation and Oppression |
0.5 |
| SK508 |
Reflective Group and Community Practice |
0.5 |
| SK509 |
Clinical Social Work Practice with Groups |
0.5 |
| SK522 |
Clinical Social Work Practice with Individuals |
0.5 |
| SK531 |
Social Welfare Seminar |
0.5 |
| SK534 |
Tutorial |
0.5 |
| SK541 |
Practicum I |
0.5 |
| SK549 |
Special Summer Practicum |
0.5 |
| SK552 |
Clinical Social Work Practice with Families |
0.5 |
| SK607 |
Community Research and Data Analysis |
0.5 |
| SK608 |
Community Capacity Building |
0.5 |
| SK609 |
Program Development and Social Planning |
0.5 |
| SK610 |
Social Change and Social Action |
0.5 |
| SK615 |
Clinical Social Work Research and Data Analysis |
0.5 |
| SK619 |
Family Violence |
0.5 |
| SK620 |
Marital and Couple Counselling |
0.5 |
| SK621 |
Use of Self |
0.5 |
| SK622 |
International Placement: Self, Identity and Diversity |
0.5 |
| SK624 |
Feminist Clinical Practices |
0.5 |
| SK625 |
Social Work with Separated, Divorced and Reconstituted Families |
0.5 |
| SK629 |
Values and Ethical Issues in Contemporary Social Work |
0.5 |
| SK632 |
Treatment Issues |
0.5 |
| SK633 |
Social Welfare Seminar |
0.5 |
| SK634 |
Tutorial |
0.5 |
| SK641 |
Social Policy Analysis |
0.5 |
| SK642 |
Research Methods, Design and Analysis |
0.5 |
| SK643 |
Practicum II |
0.5 |
| SK649 |
Advanced Standing Practicum |
0.5 |
| SK651 |
Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice with Individuals |
0.5 |
| SK652 |
Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice with Families |
0.5 |
| SK653 |
Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice with Groups |
0.5 |
| SK655 |
Psychoanalytic Theory |
0.5 |
| SK657 |
Treatment of Children and Adolescents |
0.5 |
| SK658 |
Social Work Practice with Older Adults |
0.5 |
| SK659 |
Human Sexuality |
0.5 |
| SK660 |
Multiculturalism, Anti-Racism, and Social Work Practice |
0.5 |
| SK663 |
Treatment of Child, Adolescent and Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse |
0.5 |
| SK664 |
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Social Work Practice |
0.5 |
| SK665 |
Aboriginal Issues |
0.5 |
| SK666 |
Alternative Social Work Interventions |
0.5 |
| SK667 |
Play Therapy |
0.5 |
| SK675 |
The Third World and Social Work Practice |
0.5 |
| SK677 |
The Therapeutic Process |
0.5 |
| SK679 |
Managing Social Service Agencies |
0.5 |
| SK680 |
Advanced Social Policy: Creating Change in Government |
0.5 |
| SK681 |
Services to Families with Children-at-Risk |
0.5 |
| SK682 |
Advanced Social Service Management |
0.5 |
| SK688 |
Social Work in Health Care Settings |
0.5 |
| SK689 |
Women and Social Policy |
0.5 |
| SK692 |
Women's Issues in Social Work |
0.5 |
| SK694 |
Social Work and the Law |
0.5 |
| SK695 |
Poverty in Canada and its Implications for Social Work |
0.5 |
| SK696 |
Mediation in Social Work Practice |
0.5 |
| SK698 |
Thesis |
0.0 |
| SK699 |
Fundamental Statistical Methods for Social Work Research |
0.5 |
| SK701 |
Multivariate Analysis for Social Work Research |
0.5 |
| SK702 |
Advanced Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Work Research |
0.5 |
| SK711 |
The Study of Treatment of Families I |
0.5 |
| SK712 |
The Study of Treatment of Families II |
0.5 |
| SK714 |
Advanced Groupwork I |
0.5 |
| SK715 |
Advanced Groupwork II |
0.5 |
| SK718 |
Advanced Studies in Social Work and Related Disciplines I |
0.5 |
| SK719 |
Advanced Studies in Social Work Related Disciplines II |
0.5 |
| SK721 |
Child Welfare as a Field for Social Work Practice |
0.5 |
| SK722 |
Aging as a Context for Social Work Practice |
0.5 |
| SK723 |
Mental Health as a Context for Social Work Practice |
0.5 |
| SK731 |
Advanced Studies in Social Planning |
0.5 |
| SK732 |
Advanced Studies in Community Development |
0.5 |
| SK734 |
Current Issues in Community Development |
0.5 |
| SK735 |
Advanced Studies in Policy Analysis |
0.5 |
| SK736 |
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Social Policy |
0.5 |
| SK737 |
Advanced Studies in Organizational Theory |
0.5 |
| SK738 |
Advanced Studies in Social Administration |
0.5 |
| SK741 |
Study of Treatment of Individuals I |
0.5 |
| SK742 |
Study of Treatment of Individuals II |
0.5 |
| SK743 |
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory |
0.5 |
| SK751 |
Advanced Readings in Social Work Practice |
0.5 |
| SK752 |
Advanced Readings in Social Policy |
0.5 |
| SK753 |
Advanced Readings in Research Methods |
0.5 |
| SK754 |
Classical Literature in Social Work |
0.5 |
| SK755 |
Social Work Education: History and Current Themes |
0.5 |
| SK756 |
Teaching Teachers to Teach |
0.5 |
| SK790 |
Social Work Thought and Theory Development |
0.5 |
| SK791 |
Epistemology and the Nature of Social Work Knowledge |
0.5 |
| SK802 |
Evaluation of Social Work Programs and Services |
0.5 |
| SK803 |
Clinical Research Methods |
0.5 |
| SK805 |
Applied Qualitative Research Methods |
0.5 |
| SK806 |
Advanced Multivariate Models |
0.5 |
| SK807 |
Advanced Doctoral Research Seminar |
0.5 |
| SK808 |
Practicum I |
0.5 |
| SK809 |
Practicum II |
0.5 |
| SK810 |
Practicum III |
0.5 |
| SK893 |
Comprehensive Examination |
0.0 |
| SK899 |
PhD Dissertation |
0.0 |
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Academic & Related Dates 2005/2006
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