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This document provides information about the SW3010 Social Work Practice Methods I course including the course description, competencies, and practice behaviors. The course is a 4 credit hour course offered on Wednesdays from 8:30-12:10 PM in location UC1-210. It is the first of four courses providing knowledge, skills, and framework for entry-level generalist practice and includes a service learning component. The course competencies focus on developing professional identity, applying ethical principles, using critical thinking, engaging diversity, and engaging, assessing, intervening and evaluating with clients on various levels. It also covers analyzing the impact of urban contexts on client systems.

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3010 Master Syllabus

This document provides information about the SW3010 Social Work Practice Methods I course including the course description, competencies, and practice behaviors. The course is a 4 credit hour course offered on Wednesdays from 8:30-12:10 PM in location UC1-210. It is the first of four courses providing knowledge, skills, and framework for entry-level generalist practice and includes a service learning component. The course competencies focus on developing professional identity, applying ethical principles, using critical thinking, engaging diversity, and engaging, assessing, intervening and evaluating with clients on various levels. It also covers analyzing the impact of urban contexts on client systems.

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SW3010 PRACTICE METHODS I

(4 Credit hours)
Course: SW3010 Social Work Practice Methods I
Section #: 902, 12112
12:10 PM
Location: UC1-210 Macomb University Center
[email protected]
Instructor: Lois Garriott
appointment
Phone: Cell: (586) 354-5647
1477

Fall, 2012
Time: Wednesdays, 8:30
E-Mail:
Office Hours: By
Alternative (586) 777-

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is the first of four courses providing knowledge, skills and framework f or entry
level generalist practice including a service learning component.
COURSE COMPETENCIES AND PRACTICE BEHAVIORS
2.1.1 Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself
accordingly
Practice Behaviors:
Advocate for the client access to the services of social work; practice Personal
reflection and self-correction to assure continual professional development; attend
to professional roles and boundaries; demonstrate professional demeanor in
behavior, appearance and communication; engage in Career long learning; use
supervision and consultation
2.1.2 Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice
Practice Behaviors:
Recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to
guide practice make ethical decisions by applying standards of the NASW Code of
Ethics; tolerate ambiguity in resolving conflicts; apply concepts of ethical reasoning
to arrive at principled decisions
2.1.3 Apply Critical thinking to inform and communicate professional
judgments
Practice Behaviors:
Distinguish, appraise, and integrate multiple sources of knowledge, including
research based knowledge, and practice wisdom; analyze models of assessment,
prevention, intervention and evaluation; demonstrate effective oral and written
communication in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations,
communities, and colleagues

2.1.4 Engage diversity and difference in practice


Practice Behaviors:
Gain sufficient self-awareness to eliminate the influence of personal bias and values
in working with diverse groups; recognize and communicate the importance of
difference in shaping life experiences
10. Engage, assess, intervene and evaluate with individuals, families,
groups, organizations and
Communities
Practice Behaviors:
(a) Engagement:
Substantively and affectively prepare for action with individuals, families,
groups, organizations and communities; use empathy and other interpersonal
skills; Develop a mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired outcomes
(b) Assessment
Collect, organize, and interpret client data; assess client strengths and
limitation develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives;
select appropriate intervention strategies
( c ) Intervention
Initiate actions to achieve organizational goals; implement prevention
interventions that enhance client capacities; help clients resolve problems;
negotiate, mediate, and advocate for clients; facilitate transitions and
endings
(d) Evaluation
Critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate interventions
11 Analyze the impact of the urban context on a range of client systems,
including practice implications
Practice Behaviors:
Examine the distinct characteristics of the urban context and apply them.

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