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Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Social Work Practice: A Dedicated Model Syllabus for Graduate Schools of Social Work

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Sabretta Alford; Laura Graham Holmes – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2025

Most social work students receive only limited instruction about disabilities in their general coursework despite a growing need for trained social workers in this area. In this paper, we argue that coursework dedicated to the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) needs to be implemented as an essential component of a…

Descriptors: Graduate Study, Social Work, Professional Education, Course Descriptions