Goal I. Professional Growth and Development
This includes promoting each student's development as a learner, identity as a social worker and the conscious and disciplined use of self as a professional person. The value orientation of the profession, it's ethics, norms and legal sanctions all contribute to the student's professional identity. Each student needs to recognize and respect individual differences in life style, culture, and ethnic heritage. Further, each student needs to carry out the responsibilities inherent in the professional role, as defined by the field setting.
- Participate as an active and responsible learner
- Demonstrate appropriate verbal and written communication skills as needed to carry out field assignments
- Practice with self-awareness and sensitivity to issues of human diversity and mechanisms of oppression
- Define and function in the role of clinical social worker demonstrating professional knowledge, values, and skills
- Measure and evaluate one's own practice.
Goal II. Clinical Practice Knowledge and Skills
This addresses the application of a problem solving process to actual situations. Students need to know how to identify and assess problems which call for personal, interpersonal, or organizational change. They need to obtain, sort, organize, and analyze relevant information so that they can accurately understand a problem and its context. Based on their assessment, students must be able to select an appropriate course of action, develop feasible objectives, and implement an intervention plan using appropriate practice roles. Throughout the intervention process, students must be able to use empirical evidence to evaluate the methods and outcomes of their efforts. Students must be able to form a variety of professional relationships. This requires the ability to use a range of interpersonal communication skills and to selectively engage in collaboration, bargaining , and conflict management with clients, colleagues, or administrative personnel. Finally, students must be able to evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of practice theories, methods, and techniques in reducing the problems that social workers are charged to address. As an essential professional skill, they must be able to integrate research findings with practice.- Apply appropriate assessment skills to engage clients in helping relationships.
- Conduct and critically assess an array of effective clinical interventions.
- Apply theory-based clinical framework and interventions with individuals, families, and groups.
Goal III
This focuses on the interacting contexts of practice and their influence on policy formulation and service delivery. Since social work practice typically occurs in an organizational setting, the student needs to understand the mandate, structure, and operation of an agency, and its intraorganizational relationships. Further, the unique characteristics of the community or population served affect the development of the programs, the delivery of the services, and consequently, the conduct of individual professional practice.- Understand and apply information about how the agency operates and its relationship to other agencies in the community.
- Analyze and address the impact of social and agency policies and procedures on service of delivery.
- Assess and integrate theories of supervision and management in service provision to clients