The Clinical Practice with Families and Children (CPFC) specialization will teach you how to work with a variety of different populations of individuals and families at risk in ways that facilitate their empowerment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through a selection of strengths-based approaches, the specialization addresses family- and child-focused concerns across a level of need spectrum from poverty and homelessness to communication and interpersonal counseling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students choosing the CPFC specialization have a variety of practice settings to choose from, such as school social work, mental health settings, child abuse prevention, family and child centered clinical practices, medical social work, and substance abuse settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are three CPFC specialization courses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sequence of these courses will prepare you for advanced social work practice with individuals, couples, families and groups, as well as macro practice in advocacy and family centered policy. These courses will help students concurrently taking their field practicum apply techniques and intervention strategies learned in the classroom to their internships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SW 665 Advanced Practice with Children was featured in the Journal of Teaching in Social Work<\/em> as an exemplary graduate course.<\/p>\n\n\n As a student in the CPFC specialization, you\u2019ll have the opportunity to apply your classroom learning to a field placement geared specifically to your chosen specialty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many direct-practice roles are available including counseling in school-based programs and in non-traditional schools, working as a family therapist, counseling in hospitals and specialty healthcare facilities, counseling in addiction recovery programs, counseling in therapeutic nursery schools with post trauma children and their families, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Internships are available locally, all over the State of New Jersey and in the Philadelphia and New York City areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information on our MSW specializations, please see the curriculum charts, sequence charts and graduate student handbook.<\/p>\n\n\n Ready to apply to Monmouth\u2019s MSW program? Start your application today.<\/p>\n\n\n\nField Practicum Placements<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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