MSW in Individual and Family Clinical

Liberty’s Master of Social Work Helps You Work Hands-On with Families and Individuals to Improve Your Community

Do you want to work in a career dedicated to making a positive difference in the world? If you want to work hands-on with hurting families in your community, Liberty University’s Master of Social Work – Individual and Family Clinical cognate can help you get the training you need.

Individual and family clinical social workers study how community factors impact the lives of families and children. These social workers are trained to understand how to approach challenges that face communities worldwide to build structures that will help families lead safer, healthier, and happier lives.

With hands-on experience working in two practicums, you can learn how to apply what you learn to help hurting people. If you want to use a holistic approach to help strengthen communities anywhere in the world, then earning a Master of Social Work can help give you the clinical practice skills you need.

Please note: Each state has unique requirements for becoming a licensed social worker. Be sure to research the requirements in your state.

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Why Choose Liberty’s Individual and Family Clinical Cognate in the MSW Program?

We fulfill our mission of Training Champions for Christ by training social workers with the values, knowledge, and skills they need to impact the world. Liberty’s social work program can help you become a servant leader who follows Christ’s example and influences the world by enhancing the lives of individuals, families, and communities. You can work with communities through research-informed knowledge, values, and skills that represent the best practices and methods of the field.

Liberty University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). This accreditation shows that our social work training meets high standards for academic quality and scholarship. This training comes with two practicums, which can help you gain experience working with people in a clinical environment. You can be confident that earning your social work master’s degree from Liberty can help you to meet the field’s biggest challenges.

Earning your MSW degree can help you gain a graduate-level license, which opens the door to highly regulated roles in management and private clinical practice. With this advanced training, you can work with organizations here and overseas. You could help with refugee resettlement, natural disaster recovery, human trafficking intervention, and many other international efforts. With the individual and family clinical cognate, you can work with government agencies and nonprofit organizations in schools, hospitals, group homes, and clinics. Liberty University’s Master of Social Work program can equip you to make a difference at home and anywhere in the world.

Here are some of the benefits of choosing Liberty for your Master of Social Work degree:

• Practical Learning | You will complete at least 1,000 hours of field experience, allowing you to gain marketable skills and on-the-job training.
• Valuable Mentorship | At Liberty, you can learn from the best. Many of our MSW professors hold doctoral degrees, and all of our faculty are experts in the field of social work. Additionally, you’ll complete at least 600 hours of social work practice experience under the supervision of a master’s-level social worker.
• Biblical Worldview | We believe Scripture provides the most solid foundation for social justice efforts. In our MSW courses, you can learn how to synthesize biblical principles with the best methods in research and practice. That way, you can approach social work with an emphasis on the God-given value of every individual.
• Flexible Degree Options | At Liberty, your MSW degree equips you with a wide range of skills that can help you adapt to any challenge in the field. With essential social work generalist courses, you can have a broad and in-depth understanding of the most important research, skills, and techniques of the field of social work. Our individual and family clinical cognate also provides training to help equip you to work with children and families and seek specialized licensure.

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What Will You Learn in Our Master of Social Work – Individual and Family Clinical Cognate?

Your social work training will cover foundational skills and knowledge so that you can be prepared as an effective community mental health professional. You can cover social work practices, current issues, and principles of human behavior in communities. You can also study many social work topics designed to prepare you to be an adaptable generalist in the field and specialized courses for individual and family clinical work. With a broad and in-depth understanding of human behavior in communities, you can be equipped to face the challenges of your career.

You can gain hands-on field experience through one 400-hour placement over 2 semesters and one 600-hour block placement. These placements can help prepare you for your career and to sit for social work licensure exams.

View the Degree Completion Plan and check out our featured courses below for more information!

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