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Student Information

Instructor/Supervisor Information

Faculty Liaison Information

Agency Info

Name: Varda Sauveur

Walden Email: [email protected]

Phone: 347-869-32356

Name: Chanell Smiliey

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 631-505-2961

Name: Alisha Powell

Email: [email protected]

Phone: [Type here]

Description: Psychotherapy

Academic Term

Example: Winter 2019

Course Number

Example: SOCW 6520 III

Population Served: Working with clients who are affected by depression, phobias, stress, anxiety, emotional and relationship problems, physical or psychosomatic disorders and behavioral problems.

Expected Behaviors – You will be evaluated on these at the end of the quarter

Agency Activities to help you achieve the expected behaviors- Check ALL that apply AND add other activities specific to your agency.

Field Course Assignments – Complete these in the course when assigned.

a- Makes clinically appropriate decisions based on the NASW Code of Ethics, and other local, state, and federal legal statutes and regulations.

b- Identifies and manages personal values to provide clinical service delivery, according to professional values and standards.

c-Incorporates professional behavior when engaging clients, families, colleagues, and other professionals.

d- Evaluate the ethical and appropriate use technology to facilitate delivery of clinical social work services

e-Integrates principles of supervision and consultation to guide professional judgment and behavior.

f-Demonstrates professional development by identifying the specialized skills and knowledge needed to practice clinical social work.

|X|Adhere to ethical standards outlined by the NASW and other social work organizations

|X|Discuss personal values in supervision when they conflict with the values of the profession and adjust practice as needed.

|X|Recognize personal triggers that could impede effectiveness with clients. Discuss those triggers with your supervisor.

|X|Discuss case scenarios with my supervisor and faculty liaison that require ethical reasoning.

|X|Maintain professional boundaries with clients and others and discuss and potential boundary challenges in supervision.

|X|Use professional communication and interaction with clients, colleagues, and others.

|X|Recognize your professional responsibility to the client, the profession, and the agency.

|X|Adhere to agency polices about technology and record keeping. Discuss with your supervisor any potential ethical challenges that may arise because of the use of technology.

SOCW 6520 (Field III) Assignments:

Self-Assessment Assignment (Week1)

Blog post on confidentiality (Week 2)

Blog Post safety in field (Week 3)

Blog Post on Supervision (Week 4)

Blog on Ethics (Week 5)

Use of Self Blog (Week 8)

For Student: After reviewing the Agency Activities and Field Course Assignments, describe how these expectations and activities will help you increase competence in ethical and professional behavior. For example, how will you use your strengths, improve knowledge, develop skills, and address any areas you need to improve as a professional (be specific)? The above will help me gain competence in ethical and professional behavior by treating my colleagues with respect and putting my client’s wellbeing first. I will review company polices and self-study manuals. Review cases with instructor before conducting a session. I will document in a timely and correctly manner. Also, I will seek explanation from instructor or other staff members when ethical boundaries are not clear.

For Student: Write two goals that you want to achieve to help you develop as a professional social worker (these goals should address areas of growth and professional development).

As a professional social worker, I would like to develop self-composure when doing home visits and being less biased towards my clients.

For Student: Write down any questions you have for your instructor/supervisor or faculty liaison:

With your many years of experience how do you self-regulate yourself when put in unusually situations?

Instructor/Supervisor’s Feedback for Evaluation: (To be completed during evaluation).

Expected Behaviors – You will be evaluated on these at the end of the quarter

Agency Activities to help you achieve the expected behaviors- Check ALL that apply AND add other activities specific to your agency.

Field Course Assignments – Complete these in the course when assigned.

a-Demonstrates cultural awareness by recognizing and integrating diverse populations’ varying values, culture, norms, and beliefs throughout the therapeutic process.

b-Demonstrates cultural humility by managing personal biases when partnering with clients.

c- Communicates in a culturally responsive way recognizing various community structures, norms, and values.

|X|Practice with those who are different from you based on age, SES, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, etc.

|X|Discuss in supervision and in class the strengths of engaging diversity and the challenges you have when engaging difference.

|X|Engage in self-refection about personal biases related to client population and discuss with supervisor and be able to demonstrate that you can have a personal view and a professional view in practice.

|X|Develop a diversity/cultural competency plan that allows you to learn about the cultural needs of client groups and be culturally responsive when communicating with clients.

SOCW 6520 (Field III) Assignments:

Agency Assignment – describe the population (Week 4)

Diversity Blog (Week 7)

For Student: After reviewing the Agency Activities and Field Course Assignments, describe how these will help you engage diversity and difference in practice. For example, how will you use your strengths, improve knowledge, develop skills, and address any areas you need to improve as a professional (be specific)?

My professional goals include gaining knowledge about various social work practices such that once deployed to the community, I will be able to function properly and address their needs using the knowledge acquired. I also aim at working professionally and ethically while dealing with a variety of populations. This will allow me to show respect in the midst of diverse communities and offer quality service to them at the same time. I plan to incorporate models that include structure and process that direct the social worker to approach each client and situation with openness to the use of a variety of techniques and levels of intervention. Whatever the perspective, generalist practice is multi-method, multi-theoretical, and transferable across diverse fields of practice, settings, and populations.

For Student: Write two goals that you want to achieve to engage diversity and difference in practice (these goals should address areas of growth and professional development).

Flied placement required one to engage diversity and difference in practice. I will listen and help clients regardless of their age, gender, religion, social or economic status following the challenges and struggles they were facing. I will discuss with my colleagues about the challenges and issue I am facing during my sessions with people from different backgrounds, and also learn from them on how to deal with such cases in future. I will also try to recognize when I’m being biased to a particular group and dealt with such instances.

For Student: Write down any questions you have for your instructor/supervisor or faculty liaison:

Instructor/Supervisor’s Feedback for Evaluation: (To be completed during the evaluation).

Expected Behaviors – You will be evaluated on these at the end of the quarter

Agency Activities to help you achieve the expected behaviors- Check ALL that apply AND add other activities specific to your agency.

Field Course Assignments – Complete these in the course when assigned.

a-Examines the effects of oppression, discrimination, structural social inequality, and historical trauma on clients/constituents and their systems to guide intervention planning.

b- Chooses social work clinical practices that promote human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.

|X|Identify barriers clients face when accessing services at my agency or at other agencies and discuss during supervision.

|X|Develop a plan to learn about the effects of oppression, discrimination, inequality, and trauma on clients.

|X|Use evidence-based practices that consider the unique challenges clients have when faced with oppression, discrimination, social inequality, and historical trauma.

|X|Discuss with supervisor about how social, economic, and environmental factors affect client outcomes.

|X|Work with instructor/supervisor to engage advocacy for needs and services for clients.

|X|Collaborate with a local or national organization that advocates for your population.

For Student: After reviewing the Agency Activities and Field Course Assignments, describe how these will help you advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice. For example, how will you use your strengths, improve knowledge, develop skills, and address any areas you need to improve as a professional (be specific)? I will do my very best to understand mechanisms of oppression and discrimination; advocate for human rights and social and economic justice; and engage in practices that advance social and economic justice. Inform myself about different agencies, local, state and federal guidelines for addressing oppression and discrimination and apply it to a clients. Actively, participate in meetings specifically aimed at addressing client and community needs.

For Student: Write two goals that you want to achieve to help you advance human rights and justice (these goals should address areas of growth and professional development).

As a future professional social worker, I will strive for fairness on how people are treated within society and be non- judgmental to situations I don’t understand.

For Student: Write down any questions you have for your instructor/supervisor or faculty liaison:

Instructor/Supervisor’s Feedback for Evaluation: (To be completed during the evaluation)

Expected Behaviors – You will be evaluated on these at the end of the quarter

Agency Activities to help you achieve the expected behaviors- Check ALL that apply AND add other activities specific to your agency.

Field Course Assignments – Complete these in the course when assigned.

a-. Critically evaluates evidence based and “best practice” treatment interventions

b- Develops clinical intervention plans based on the best available research and “best practices”.

|X|Research the evidence-based treatment interventions associated with the context of your agency.

|X|Use critical thinking to evaluate the benefits and challenges of the evidence-based interventions used with clients. Discuss your ideas with your supervisor.

|X|Develop treatment plans for clients that are evidence-based.

SOCW 6520 (Field III) Assignment:

Intervention Treatment Plan Assignment

SOCW6530 (Field IV) Assignment:

Intervention Treatment Plan Assignment part II

For Student: After reviewing the Agency Activities and Field Course Assignments, describe how these will help you engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice. For example, how will you use your strengths, improve knowledge, develop skills, and address any areas you need to improve as a professional (be specific)?

I can lookup past cases to understand what methods where used to help the client and conducted my own research to see if it can be improved. I will also use practice experience and theory to inform scientific inquiry and research. I will improve in critical thinking to engage in analysis of quantitative and qualitative research methods and research findings. I will discuss theories and frameworks of assessment, intervention, and evaluation related to a client with the instructor. It’s important to be constantly informed since people and interventions often changes. I will discuss theories and frameworks of assessment, intervention, and evaluation related to a client.

For Student: Write two goals that you want to achieve to help you improve use research in your practice justice (these goals should address areas of growth and professional development).

I would like to incorporate more evidence based practices and approaches in my field work. This will give me a better understanding and appreciation on how important research is to social work. It would be great to work with the clients or review cases on a more clinical level and apply what interventions would work best.

For Student: Write down any questions you have for your instructor/supervisor or faculty liaison:

What type of interventions are used to help the clients currently?

Instructor/Supervisor’s Feedback for Evaluation: (To be completed during evaluation).

Expected Behaviors – You will be evaluated on these at the end of the quarter

Agency Activities to help you achieve the expected behaviors- Check ALL that apply AND add other activities specific to your agency.

Field Course Assignments – Complete these in the course when assigned.

a- Critically evaluates and creates awareness about agency and/or government policies and regulations that impact the well-being of clients.

b- Applies critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that support the needs of clients who present for clinical services

|X|Consider policies that affect the lives of your clients and discuss those challenges with your supervisor.

|X|Use critical thinking to examine the negative impact of policies on clients and advocate when needed.

|X|Explore how social problems are connected to social policy.

|X|Explore how agency funding is connected to policy.

SOCW 6520 (Field III) Assignment:

Week 10 focuses on Organizational Policy

Social Problem/Policy Assignment

SOCW6530 (Field IV) Assignment:

Agency Funding and Policy Implication Assignment

For Student: After reviewing the Agency Activities and Field Course Assignments, describe how these will help you engage in policy practice. For example, how will you use your strengths, improve knowledge, develop skills, and address any areas you need to improve as a professional (be specific)?

Being familiar with policies and how it affects the client services is very important. I will engage in policy practice by getting familiar and conducting research on different policy practices. I will ask questions about private health insurance policies and how it affects certain clients/ vulnerable populations.

For Student: Write two goals that you want to achieve to engage in policy practice (these goals should address areas of growth and professional development).

Clients, often get taken advantage of because they don’t know their rights. Therefore, my goal is to be more familiar with state laws and identify when my client is being misinformed.

For Student: Write down any questions you have for your instructor/supervisor or faculty liaison:

Instructor/Supervisor’s Feedback for Evaluation: (To be completed during evaluation)

Expected Behaviors – You will be evaluated on these at the end of the quarter

Agency Activities to help you achieve the expected behaviors – Check ALL that apply AND add other activities specific to your agency.

Field Course Assignments – Complete these in the course when assigned.

Individuals

Uses empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to engage diverse clients in the therapeutic process.

Families

Uses empathy, reflection, interpersonal skills, and knowledge of human behavior and the social environment and family systems to engage with families.

Groups

a-Uses empathy, reflection, interpersonal skills, and knowledge of group dynamics to engage group members in the group process.

b- Engages with inter-professional teams and stakeholders associated with clients' care.

Organizations

Engages with organizations that provide services, support, advocacy, and resources to support to clients.

Communities

Identifies and actively participates in opportunities to communicate with community leaders and members about community service gaps for clients.

|X|Show care, empathy, and genuineness with clients to initiate therapeutic relationships.

|X|Use a strengths-based approach when engaging with individuals, groups, and families.

|X|Use active listening and other engagement skills.

|X|Consult with organizations to assist with client needs.

|X|Connect and work with community organizations that provide services related to the clients you serve.

SOCW 6520 (Field III) –First 11 weeks

Process Recording (Week 5)

Process Recording (Week 7)

Week 9 focuses on Individual, Family, and Group contexts

SOCW6530 (Field IV)- Second 11 weeks

Week 1 & Week 2 Focus on Engagement

Blog on Engagement (Week 2)

Process Recording (Week 3)

For Student: After reviewing the Agency Activities and Field Course Assignments, describe how you will engage with the following target systems in the context of your agency:

Individuals: I will use interpersonal skills when engaging with clients such as: reflective listening, empathy, open ended questions, content clarification, seeking feedback, and appropriate confrontation and problem solving.

Families: I will use family-centered and strengths-based approach to making decisions, setting goals, and achieving desired outcomes

Groups: I will conduct groups on different social issues and current events.

Communities: I will create a collaboration letter to connect with different community leaders.

Organizations: I will prepare to take action by reviewing the client’s history with supervisor. I will also review patient needs and concerns and (re)evaluate during and after my therapy sessions.

For Student: Write two goals that you want to achieve to help you develop your engagement skills (these goals should address areas of growth and professional development).

I will conduct initial intake on at least five clients and assist clients to navigate around barriers to achieve their goals by using a strengths based perspective.

For Student: Write down any questions you have for your instructor/supervisor or faculty liaison:

Instructor/Supervisor’s Feedback for Evaluation: (To be completed during the evaluation)

Expected Behaviors – You will be evaluated on these at the end of the quarter

Agency Activities to help you achieve the expected behaviors- Check ALL that apply AND add other activities specific to your agency.

Field Course Assignments – Complete these in the course when assigned.

Individuals

a-Conducts clinical assessments that provide information about the biopsychosocial-spiritual needs of clients.

b- Uses critical thinking to apply the strengths perspective and theories of human behavior and the social environment when analyzing and interpreting assessment information in a clinical setting.

c- Develops mutually agreed-upon evidence-based therapeutic interventions that consider culture, values, and safety.

Families

a- Conducts family assessments to understand family roles, functioning, relationships, resources, and support needs.

b- Uses critical thinking to apply theories of family systems when analyzing and interpreting family functioning, support, and dynamics.

Groups

a-Identifies the professional social work role in inter-professional and supervision group meetings and assesses how that role contributes to the group's purpose.

b- Assesses the functioning and needs of professional and/or patient focused groups, and considers the best intervention strategies, based on professional knowledge and ethics.

Organizations

a-Assesses how the agency’s mission, structure, vision, connect to client outcomes.

b- Uses critical thinking to consider the strengths and limitations of therapeutic services provided to clients.

Communities

a-Develops knowledge about community resources, resources, governance, political climate, and initiatives to support mental health

b- Uses critical thinking to consider the strengths and limitations of the community and how those impact the functioning of clients

|X|Utilize agency appropriate forms, tools, and processes to complete clinical assessments.

|X|Utilize developmentally, and strengths-based approaches to assessment.

|X|Assist clients in developing mutually agreed upon goals and interventions to enhance well-being.

|X|Assess family functioning, relationships and support needs in the context of the agency’s practice.

|X|Work with groups to assess needs and to inform group intervention goals and treatment strategies.

|X|Assess ways you can participate in inter-professional and supervision meetings from the social work perspective.

|X|Assess how other organizations assist with client needs and where there may be gaps in services.

|X|Assess the role the community plays in providing services for your clients (financial, legislative, representative, etc.) Discuss your findings with your supervisor.

SOCW6520 (Field III) – First 11 weeks

Process Recording (Week 5)

Week 9 Focus on Individuals, Families, and Groups

SOCW 6510 (Field II)- Second 11 weeks

SOCW 6530 (Field IV)- Second 11 weeks

Week 3 and 4 devoted to the assessment process, with assignments of blogs and process recordings.

For Student: After reviewing the Agency Activities and Field Course Assignments, describe how you will assess the following target systems in the context of your agency:

Individuals: Individual therapy sessions using different theories such as CBT, strengths based, Motivational Interviewing, person in environment, etc. Learning how to conduct intake assessments, measuring achievable goals and objectives, writing a treatment plan, diagnosing using the DSM-5. Will also hold a caseload of 4-7 clients.

Families: Will work with client systems in micro, macro, mezzo level, in connecting clients and families.

Groups: Will co-facilitate groups on social problems called “Self Care” and “What is love”.

Organizations: Will call health insurance companies to understand their payment process and polices.

Communities: Will be identifying resources available to client systems. Will also be researching resources that are available within local area.

For Student: Write two goals that you want to achieve to help you develop your assessment skills (these goals should address areas of growth and professional development).

Develops mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives based on the critical assessment of strengths, needs, and challenges of the client and selects appropriate intervention strategies based on the assessment, research knowledge, and values and preferences of the client.

For Student: Write down any questions you have for your instructor/supervisor or faculty liaison:

Instructor/Supervisor’s Feedback for Evaluation: (To be completed during supervision)

Expected Behaviors – You will be evaluated on these at the end of the quarter

Agency Activities to help you achieve the expected behaviors- Check ALL that apply AND add other activities specific to your agency.

Field Course Assignments – Complete these in the course when assigned.

Individuals

a-Implements therapeutic interventions based on the strengths perspective, biopsychosocial needs, and current theories appropriate for the setting and client needs.

b- Utilizes appropriate resources and services for clients.

c- Promotes effective transitions and endings that incorporate mutually agreed-upon goals.

Families

a-Implements family interventions based on the strengths perspective, family culture, family systems theory, and evidence-based practice.

b- Utilizes appropriate resources, services, and interventions for families.

Groups

Uses professional ethics, knowledge, and evidence-based interventions in groups.

Organizations

Participates in opportunities to improve agency/organization service delivery that will support the needs of clients.

Communities

Explores and actively participates in opportunities to advocate for community services and support mental health services.

|X|Use agency-appropriate and developmentally- appropriate intervention strategies and techniques.

|X|Use relevant prevention strategies with individuals, families, and groups.

|X|Explore various evidence-based interventions and discuss those with your supervisor.

|X| Intervene with families using appropriate family theories.

|X|Explore and utilizes resources to provide holistic care.

|X|Talk with supervisor about planning for termination or transitions with clients.

|X|Consults with supervisor about ways to be involved in service delivery improvement at the agency.

SOCW 6520 (Field III) First 11 weeks

Week 9 focuses on Individuals, Families, and Groups

Discuss with supervisor evidence-based practices used in agency setting

SOCW 6530 (Field IV) Second 11 weeks

Weeks 5 and 6 focus on intervention with assignments of blogs and process recordings.

Week 9 focuses on Termination with clients

For Student: After reviewing the Agency Activities and Field Course Assignments, describe how you will intervene with all of the following target systems in the context of your agency:

Individuals: Individual therapy sessions using different theories such as CBT, strengths based, Motivational Interviewing, person in environment, etc. Learning how to conduct intake assessments, measuring achievable goals and objectives, writing a treatment plan, diagnosing using the DSM-5. Will also hold a caseload of 4-7 clients.

Families: Will explore family dynamics by using family systems theory to views problems in a more circular manner. I will tool such as the genogram to further understand the family dynamics of my client.

Groups: Will co-facilitate groups on social problems called “Self Care” and “What is love”.

Organizations: Will call health insurance companies to understand their payment process and polices when payment is not made by insurance companies.

Communities: Will be identifying resources available to client systems. Will also be researching resources that are available within local area.

For Student: Write two goals that you want to achieve to help you apply appropriate intervention strategies (these goals should address areas of growth and professional development).

Participate in progress reviews of selected intervention. Modify goals and interventions/services as needed. Participate in termination of services when appropriate. Provide crisis management services if client complaint is life threatening.

Advocate for clients and help clients maintain or meet their goals.

For Student: Write down any questions you have for your instructor/supervisor or faculty liaison:

Instructor/Supervisor’s Feedback for Evaluation: (To be completed during evaluation)

Expected Behaviors – You will be evaluated on these at the end of the quarter

Agency Activities to help you achieve the expected behaviors- Check ALL that apply AND add other activities specific to your agency.

Field Course Assignments – Complete these in the course when assigned.

Individuals

Evaluates the effectiveness of therapeutic intervention strategies for with individuals

Utilizes evaluation data to inform new intervention strategies.

Families

Evaluates the effectiveness of intervention strategies used to improve family functioning and support.

Utilizes evaluation data to inform new intervention strategies and resources.

Groups

Evaluates the effectiveness of group related processes.

Utilizes evaluation data to inform future group processes.

Organizations

Evaluates the effectiveness of social services and intervention strategies provided by agencies to support clients.

Utilizes evaluation data to inform advocacy initiatives to improve services.

Communities

Evaluates the effectiveness of community services and resources for clients and their families.

Utilizes evaluation data to inform advocacy initiatives

|X|Considers the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions and makes changes to treatment plans as needed.

|X|Consults with supervisor about treatment plan outcomes to consider potential alternatives.

|X|Evaluate the effectiveness of social services provided organizations and communities and advocate where needed.

|X|Meet with clients to assess the progress of their goals and make changes in treatment plans as necessary.

|X|Participate in data collection, needs assessments, and other research efforts to inform advocacy or awareness initiatives.

SOCW 6520 (Field III) First 11 weeks 

 Week 9 focuses on Individuals, Families, and Groups

SOCW 6530 (Field IV) Second 11 weeks 

Weeks 7 and 8 focus on evaluation of client success with assignments of blog posts and process recordings.  

For Student: After reviewing the Agency Activities and Field Course Assignments, describe how you will evaluate with all of the following target systems in the context of your agency:

Individuals: Review client’s successes and challenges of interventions used in the treatment plan at scheduled intervals as treatment plan progresses.

Families: I will follow up with two client families to check on their status and wellbeing.

Groups: I will follow up with clients to monitor and analyze that the intervention is effective and make changes as needed with the help of varies assessments tools.

For Students: Write two goals that you want to achieve to help you understand how to evaluate clients and other systems (these goals should address areas of growth and professional development).

Evaluates personal and professional values as reflected in practice and learns to apply professional values to review of client outcome. I will also evaluates extent to which client uniqueness and diversity are honored. I will monitors consistent application of ethical concepts in evaluating outcome

For Students: Write down any questions you have for your instructor/supervisor or faculty liaison:

Instructor/Supervisor’s Feedback for Evaluation: (To be completed during evaluation)