Assignment

  

SOCW 6520: Social Work Field EducationIII

Week 1

The Role of the Intern

Resources Please use the reading that I have provided to you. Please note that this is a master of social work. Please check the grammar. 

Brief Description of Agency-GA Mentor is a therapeutic foster care agency that provides therapeutic foster care services to youth between the ages of 0-18. We offer evidence-informed training to foster parents to provide quality homes for foster children. Services offered to children include 24 hours of home-based monitoring, therapeutic intervention, access to community-based services, life skill development, and medication management oversight. GA Mentor ensures that the educational, mental health, physical health, and overall well-being needs of all children in our program are met.

2. I will be completing the following tasks:

-Completion of Risk Assessments and Crisis Assessment to determine the level of the client’s needs and services

-Demonstrate her ability to apply Family-Centered Practice, Systems Theory, and Strengths Perspective when assessing the challenges of the family

-Develop and implement Treatment Plans for client

-Train and develop foster parents in providing therapeutic foster care to foster care children

-Evaluate state and Federal Policies in Child Welfare

-Demonstrate her ability to link the family to resources with consideration to the family's culture, social-economic status, etc.

Readings

• Birkenmaier, J., & Berg-Weger, M. (2018). The practicum companion for social work: Integrating class and fieldwork (4th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.

o Chapter 1, “Getting Started on Your Social Work Practice Career” (pp. 5–32)

o Chapter 2, “Socialization into the SocialWork Profession” (pp. 34-61)

• Gelman, C. R., Fernandez, P., Hausman, N., Miller, S., & Weiner, M. (2007). Challenging endings: First-year MSW interns’ experience with forced termination and discussion 35(2), 79–90.

• Miller, S. E., Tice, C. J., & Harnek Hall, D. M. (2008). The generalist model: Where do the micro and macro converge? Advances in Social Work, 9(2), 79–90. Retrieved from http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/articl e/view/203/198

• Wayne, J., Bogo, M., & Raskin, M. (2010). Field education as the signature pedagogy of social work education. Journal of Social Work Education, 46(3), 327–339.

Media

• Laureate Education (Producer). (2013g). The role of the intern

[Audio file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

Assignment:

Self-Assessment

The ability to demonstrate social work practice skills is a key component of any social work field education experience. As you demonstrate social work practice skills in your field education experience, you will develop your professional identity as a future social worker.

For this Assignment, reflect on your personal professional goals or objectives that you hope to achieve by participating in this course. Please note I am a female. 

The Assignment: (1–2 pages)

• Identify and describe personal professional goals and objectives within the parameters of the field education experience.

• Explain how the personal professional goals and objectives that you identified might be reflected in your agency learning agreement.

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