SW 594Field Instruction IV

Catalog

"Field Instruction assists in preparing graduate students to practice social work both competently and ethically with clients/systems. The practicum 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. The 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. The student develops an awareness of how ""who they are"" impacts the process of intervention. Professional communication that is consistent with the language of the practice area is mastered by students. Professional supervision is utilized by students to enhance their own learning process. Finally, students will be asked to critique, implement and evaluate their host agency's policies/procedures while practicing within ethical guidelines. Prerequisites: foundation courses, SW 521 and SW 593, two of five courses of SW 521-SW 525 taken as pre-requisites or concurrently. Offered: fall, spring and summer. 4 credits. There is a $12 fee associated with this course.