Field Practice and Integrative Seminar IV

What you’ll be able to do

• Employ ethical reasoning and decision-making, including appropriate use of consultation and supervision, in problem solving with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations.

• Engage in critical self-reflection to examine boundaries, personal and professional needs, implicit biases, and the impact of power, positionality, status, privilege, and oppression in their social work practice.

• Uphold the code of ethics and values of the profession through respectful communication, productive conflict resolution, reliable and responsible work ethic, ethical use of technology, and strong interpersonal skills that foster effective relationships with clients, supervisors, and other professionals.

• Draw on intersectional and anti-oppressive critical theories to analyze underlying social and organizational structures and oppressive forces that deny universal human rights and shape inequities across the lifespan.

• Develop and implement strategies to advocate for extending human rights in direct practice, in organizational practice, and/or in social change.

• Can describe the extent to which our society’s structures and values oppress, marginalize, alienate, create, and/or enhance privilege and power and address their own internalized prejudices and biases.

• Identify, evaluate, and address detrimental aspects of systems and environments with targeted populations, work to change policies and practices which by design or default, perpetuate inequities using strength-based, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive perspectives.

• Co-create with families, individuals, organizations, and communities, interventions and plans for advocacy that focus on equity and social justice and support those constituents' goals and aspirations.

• Translate practice and policy issues into researchable questions, processes, and outcomes.

• Translate research findings into more effective practice and policy.

• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses in existing evidence-based research to draw conclusions relevant to social work practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

• Understand how international, national, local, and organizational policies shape services, rights, and well-being of individuals, families, and communities.

• Drawing on community engagement and input, critically analyze policies that are limiting the rights and well-being of the individuals, families, and communities they work with.

• Develop and contribute to the improvement of policy to extend well-being, social justice, and human rights.

• Demonstrate a range of interpersonal engagement skills, including warmth, empathy, and genuineness, to engage in culturally responsive practice with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations.

• Engage in effective interprofessional collaboration and consultation through advocacy, interprofessional communication, flexibility, role responsibility, and accountability with various stakeholders.

• Employ self-reflection and consultation to identify and critically evaluate how positionality, power, privilege, personal experiences and values, and oppression may impact the working relationship and apply this knowledge to facilitate effective engagement with varied clients and constituencies.

• Enhance and expand on basic assessment strategies by drawing on diverse theories and demonstrating ability to use assessment to inform interventions with individuals, families, groups, communities and organizations.

• Employ multiple assessment tools and skills with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

• Synthesize assessment findings, client input, system-level analysis, and critical reflection to inform intervention plans.

• Employ self-reflection and consultation to identify and critically evaluate how positionality, power, privilege, oppression, and personal experiences and values may impact the assessment interpretation and apply this knowledge to facilitate effective assessment with varied clients and constituencies.

• Use critical thinking skills, client and interprofessional collaboration, and a strengths-based perspective to plan, evaluate, and adapt a variety of models of intervention with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations.

• Demonstrate effective use of advocacy as an intervention skill.

• Employ self-reflection and consultation to identify and critically evaluate how positionality, power, privilege, personal experiences and values, and oppression may impact interventions and apply this knowledge to facilitate effective intervention with varied clients and constituencies.

• Use a systematic and transparent approach to design and analyze evaluation plans.

• Collaborate with all stakeholders in planning and implementing evaluation, interpreting evaluation data, and disseminating and applying findings.

• Complete necessary steps and documentation in activity or project development and transfer responsibility for ongoing sustainability.

• Employ self-reflection and consultation to identify and critically evaluate how positionality, power, privilege, personal experiences and values, and oppression may impact the evaluation process and apply this knowledge to facilitate effective evaluation with varied clients and constituencies.

Source: UW Guide