The MSW Program

Brigham Young University's MSW program offers a core curriculum in the basic knowledge, values, and skills essential to all social work practice. In addition, the concentration of the curriculum focuses on preparation for direct clinical practice with emphasis on work with the family and children. This emphasis supports and reflects the common commitment of the profession, sponsoring institution, and larger society (i.e., the strengthening of family life).

The curriculum was designed around a psychosocial approach to practice within an integrating framework of systems theory. Such an approach enables the practitioner to be responsive to the special issues of diversity in pluralistic societies.

The MSW program at Brigham Young University prepares students to practice clinical social work. The curriculum concentrates on the delivery of services to families and children, and includes eleven hundred clock hours of supervised experience in direct practice.