Graduate School of Social Work
Family Systems
The Family Systems concentration provides you with knowledge and skills to work from a family systems perspective with adults, adolescents and children in a wide variety of settings: mental health and family services agencies, schools, treatment centers and community agencies.
"Family" is defined broadly to include biological lineages, affiliational families and communities. Social workers using this perspective may intervene with individuals, couples, several members of a family, peer groups, work associates, schools, classrooms and organizations. Clients are viewed as being part of a larger context, situated in multiple social locations: race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ability and citizenship status. Assessment and intervention are applied within this context, with a goal of strengthening families and other systems, and the individuals within these systems.
You'll complete a field internship in an agency or program offering an array of services to families.