SW 7520 - Development of Biopyschosocial Intervention Models

This PhD-level course focuses on preparing advanced graduate students with the skills necessary to design and test interventions that address social and public health needs, problems, and conditions. In this course, students will develop a conceptual framework or logic model that explicates the biopsychosocial mechanisms and social-environmental factors involved in a specific need, problem, or condition to be targeted by intervention. Students will then learn to select appropriate intervention strategies or design new intervention strategies based on this conceptual framework. Finally, students will learn to select intervention research methods appropriate to addressing their targeted problem or condition of focus, including identification of appropriate research designs and analytic strategies. Clinical trial methods will be detailed. During the course, students will develop a NIH exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) proposal, including a treatment manual.