SW 593 - Field Instruction III

Credits: 4

Practicum preparing graduate students to practice social work both competently and ethically with clients/systems. Provides students with structured, supervised opportunities to integrate the values, skills and knowledge learned in the classroom into interactions with actual clients and systems in practice. Field experience focuses on problem solving at multiple levels, such as individual, family, groups and community. Students learn to examine how environmental conditions may affect people adversely. They develop an awareness of how “who they are” affects the process of intervention. They master professional communication that is consistent with the language of the practice area. Professional supervision is used by students to enhance their own learning process. Finally, students critique, implement and evaluate their host agency’s policies/procedures while practicing within ethical guidelines. Prerequisites: foundation courses, SW 591 and SW 592, two of five courses of SW 52SW 525 taken as pre-requisites or concurrently. Offered: fall, spring and summer.