SOCW6520

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Description: Assisting clients with food, housing, clothing, financial, medicines. Outpatient Behavioral Health Program assist clients with Psychotherapy Group sessions with mental illness.

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Population Served: Members in the community and mental health clients.

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)?

Through interactions with colleagues and other individuals within the agency, one will gain more ideas and experience from people who have already passed through the process. This gives one a viable platform to share areas of concern and gain advice and consultations on areas that needs improvement particularly on skills and development.

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).

Improve on networking skills by engaging in more conversations with other professionals in the social work career. This will assist in improving skills by working with different professionals and also open more opportunities to expand career as a professional social worker. Another goal to attain is improve communication skills which involve learning to listen and minimize potential biases that affect effective communication.

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

What is the very first strategy that one should use when planning to improving networking skills?

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.

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

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

|_|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.

|_|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)?

By engaging with people from other different backgrounds such as age difference, race or culture, one can gain multi-cultural skills necessary for enhancing one’s effectiveness to interactions. This improves team-work skills and the ability to lead others irrespective of their cultural difference. Engaging in self-reflection can assist in improving one’s communication skills by identifying the potential areas of bias and addressing them accordingly.

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).

One of the goals is to promote development among the less-developed groups within the community. This will be attained by evaluating possible bases of bias against the groups and ways to assist such group and the members to developing their rights. Another goal is to promote a productive working environment by identifying and eliminating potential bias factors in place of work.

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

How can one attain multi-cultural competence as a worker?

How can one balance cultural diversity without compromising some groups against others?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

|_|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)?

Use analytical skills to research and analyze effects of various barriers faced by the clients in accessing services of a social work professional. This would assist in developing a plan that can be used in countering the barriers and ensuring a smooth environment is created for clients to share out their issues of concern. Understanding the prevalence of barriers among clients will assist in promoting human rights against oppression, discrimination, historical trauma among others that are common among clients.

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).

One of the goals is to promote human rights particularly among the vulnerable groups in the society through creation of awareness. This can be attained through convening seminars and conferences. Another goal on attaining advanced human rights and justice is linking with relevant authorities such as law enforcement to counter barriers that prevent clients from accessing social work services.

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

What is the most effective approach to use in promoting advanced human rights?

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”.

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

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

|_|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)?

By appraising different evidence-based practice sources, one will obtain a comprehensive plan that can be used in developing an effective client management plan. This requires one to be good at problem-solving skills as it requires one to define a problem and search for relevant sources to support the plan. This forms the basic foundation to developing effective treatment plan for clients.

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).

One of the goals to attain in improving the research is to develop a research protocol. This is a plan that outlines the activities to be carried out in the actual research. In this case, the scope of the problem can be determined to ensure that the interventions are appropriate. Another goal is to develop a time schedule before starting the research process which will assist in ensuring the plan follows the expected time frame and done in accordance with the expected results.

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

What are the possible causes of variations between a research protocol and the actual research activities?

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

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

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

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

|_|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)?

Researching on different policies applied in social service provides a wide legal understanding of the needs and impacts that the target market has. This is important in the development of observations and assessment skills. This is because one has to assess the environment and determine if there are effective policies to address the prevailing problems and conditions in the market.

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).

The first goal is to understand the various sources of policies and how the sources are developed. This is important in understanding where one needs to concentrate more in obtaining policy issues related to social service or client’s specific problem. The second goal is to understand the policy development skills which would be significant in understanding how to fill the existing gaps in social service and client protection.

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

Is it possible to have policy development process planned and developed using agile approach?

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.

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

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

|_|Use active listening and other engagement skills.

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

|_|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: Engaging with individuals will be based on developing a good relationship with the client before making the enquiries. The conversation is aimed at creating trust between the client and the professional.

Families: The first consideration to make is evaluating the background of the family in terms of culture and social status. This would provide a clear focus on issues that a professional social server can engage in.

Groups: One should evaluate possible cultural or other demographics among the members of the group. This enables one to understand what areas not to propose in the group discussion and reduce likelihood of conflicts among group based on their cultural differences.

Communities: Conducting meetings and learning sessions is a viable way of ensuring the professional understands the needs of the members of the community. Effective treatment plans and care management plans are based on the understanding the professional has on the specific community or society (Jaramillo et al, 2020).

Organizations: Reviewing the existing policies would be an important and effective way of minimizing chances of duplication of policies developed by other organizations. Attending to various conferences held by other agencies and performing benchmarks are very important.

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).

Perform an analysis of target organizations and communities to engage in before implementing the plan. This can be conducted weeks or days before the engagement activity is initiated.

Perform a self-evaluation on possible biases against certain groups of people and understand all the biases that may affect interactions with other people. Also, there is a goal to develop an effective appraisal strategy in determining what basis to use in selecting the communities, organizations and groups to engage with.

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

What are the core principles of an effective engagement activity in assessing a group or a community?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

|_|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: Perform interviews and questionnaires to collect the views of different individual towards a specific matter in the society. This would allow the individuals to express their concerns.

Families: Engage in a simple activity by providing questionnaires to the family members in whom each of the members responds to the questions on a separate place or room. This would provide a transparent and precise feedback of the family members towards issues that affect the family (

Groups: Develop focus group based on similarities or values shared among the individuals. This provides consistency in the data collected from the focus groups.

Organizations: Engaging the organization can be done by evaluating the organizational culture and the attainments the agency had on the organizational culture.

Communities: Engaging the members of the community through conducting a survey in which the members of the community respond to survey questions.

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).

The first goal is to develop objectives for inter-professional teams and the impact such teams have on the development of a multicultural competent society. This would be important in developing an effective plan implementation policy. Another goal is to understand the different factors that impact the society and ways in which the members off the community are affected either directly or indirectly.

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

What constitutes an effective inter-professional team?

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.

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

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

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

|_| Intervene with families using appropriate family theories.

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

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

|_|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: Conduct in-person interviews and training with individuals to address the possible areas of concern and interventions.

Families: Use of family counseling and consultation sessions where family members attend session facilitated by a professional.

Groups: Engage in team-building activities to foster stronger interactions and connections among group members.

Organizations: Develop training programs for the organization employees and members of staff on important aspect such service delivery and ways of promoting advocacy for vulnerable groups (Hasanpoor et al, 2018).

Communities: Conduct promotion and campaigns on advocacy of community rights and important issues in the society.

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).

The first goal is have a clear understanding of the components of organizational culture. This will play a significant role in understanding how an organization can implement maximize its resources in advocating for the rights of the vulnerable groups in the society. Also, I am at understanding the similarities across communities being evaluated to determine what implementation strategies can be applied across target systems (Ekeland et al, 2019).

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

How do you ensure implementation of a process is smooth and effective?

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 AL

L 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

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

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

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

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

|_|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: Perform survey based on closed ended questions on the outcome of the implementation process.

Families: Engage family members in brief interviews to assess the suitability of the implementation approach used on the family.

Groups: Through observations of the group during discussions and conducting surveys.

Organizations: Conduct survey on employees and other members of staff in the organization.

Communities: Conduct survey on the members of the community to evaluate their feedback on the approach used.

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).

One of the goals is to get questionnaires and survey tables filled by the respondents. Attaining this would allow conclusions to be made with ease by the decision makers. Another goal is to have the survey results processed in time.

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

How can one ensure evaluations match the needs of the target system?

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