Graduate Catalog 2024-2025

Clinical Social Work (Post Master Degree Professional Certificate)

The Post Master Degree Professional Certificate Program in Clinical Social Work aims to prepare social workers with a biopsycosocial and interdisciplinary approach to work in independent practice in diverse scenarios by integrating models for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.

Current clinical social work deals with care of diverse human systems without excluding the possibility of intervening with broader social systems. Clinical social work with a biopysicosocial approach transfers its center of attention from the individual as the main client to the evaluation, diagnosis and intervention in and between human systems. It integrates diverse biological, psychological and social variables and associates them to explain behavior in family, group and interpersonal relations that individuals have with their environment. With this approach, social intervention moves, in addition, towards intervention centered on the family, consultation and evaluation of the professional practice. This can be conducted in public or private scenarios.

The Metropolitan Campus is authorized to offer this Program.

Admission Requirements

  1. Hold a Master in Social Work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) or an approved degree. 

Non-validation Policy

The Post Master Professional Certificate in Clinical Social Work does not validate academic credit for previous life or work experience.

Graduation Requirements

In order to complete the Post Master Professional Certificate in Clinical Social Work, students must pass at least 18 credits with a general average of 3.00.

Requirements for Post Masters Professional Certificate in Clinical Social Work Professional Certificate Requirements - 18 credits

Certificate Requirements - 18 credits

SOWO 7410Clinical Theories in Social Work

3

SOWO 7315Psychotherapeutic Intervention Models

2

SOWO 8025Biopsychosocial and Psychopathological Diagnosis in Clinical Social Work

3

SOWO 8026Biopsychosocial and Psychopathological Diagnostic Seminar

2

SOWO 7230Neurosciences and Clinical Intervention in Social Work

3

SOWO 8030Clinical Intervention with Families

3

SOWO 8040Clinical Intervention with Children and Adolescents

2