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Focuses | The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare

Focuses

 

Focus on Judaism and welfare

Within the framework of the MSW program, a group of courses on Judaism and welfare is offered, whose aim is to impart a therapeutic model based on the Jewish thought of Prof. Mordechai Totenberg, winner of the Israel Prize in Social Work:

  • The Jewish-dialogic approach to therapy in social work
  • Welfare and austerity – paradox and dialog
  • Integration of therapeutic approaches from a dialogic aspect
  • Practicum in Jewish-dialogic approach

 

Focus on preventing use of psychoactive substances (with the cooperation and support of the Israel Anti-Drug Authority)

Within the framework of the MSW program, a group of courses is offered, whose aim is to help train professional at an advanced stage of study in the field of prevention and treatment of drug- and alcohol-abusers:

  • Policy towards drug use: historical and comparative perspectives
  • Use of psychoactive substances – prevention and treatment
  • Trauma and addictions
  • Therapeutic models in double morbidity
  • Dialectic behavioral therapy
  • The motivational approach