Graduate School of Social Work
Children & Youth: Risks & Positive Development
This concentration provides you with the knowledge and skills to work from a resilience perspective with adolescents and children in a wide variety of settings: mental health, family services agencies, schools, treatment centers, youth correctional facilities and community agencies. You will gain expertise in the theories and practices for prevention, early intervention and clinical treatment with children and youth.
The overarching frameworks for the concentration are positive youth development and resilience. You will learn clinical strategies that are particularly effective for working with children and youth.
Your field internship will be in an agency or program serving children and youth.