SW 695A - Social Work Practicum I

1. 1. Students will demonstrate an introductory understanding of social work ethics and values. 
   2. Students will demonstrate an ability to assess their own learning needs and styles and begin to embrace their responsibility for the development of professional competence and identity.
   3. Students will be introduced to the process of supervision and establish an understanding of the use of self in interviewing, assessment, engagement, planning, intervention and evaluation phases of evidence-based practice with individuals and families.
   4. Students will become familiar with their professional roles as mandated reporters and the concomitant responsibilities.
   5. Students will gain an initial understanding of the processes of critical thinking, problem solving, decision-making, and interactive skills as used in a professional strength-based social work practice, within an urban, community-based context.
   6. Students will develop initial applied skills using a generalist practice perspective, such as interviewing, documentation, assessment, engagement, planning, intervention and evaluation.
   7. Students will begin to apply theoretical frameworks studied in the core foundation courses to their initial cases, interventions, and agency observations.
   8. Students will begin to understand the concept of cultural competence by working with individuals from different cultural backgrounds. Students will work with cultural groups other than their own.
   9. Students will explore roles of advocate and broker for vulnerable populations, in the context of a philosophy that values self-determination and empowerment.
   10. Students will demonstrate their communication and writing skills in seminar, as well as learn to maintain organized and timely documentation in their agency placements.