Field Instruction II

Catalog description

Field Instruction II is the second course in the field practicum sequence and represents the culmination of the Foundation year. Field Instruction II provides students with the opportunity to further integrate and build upon the knowledge, values and skills assimilated during the previous semester. Students further their proficiency in intervening with diverse problems and multiple sized systems, develop more intensive interactive helping skills, become better adept at writing process records and other agency records, assume more responsibility in supervision and inter-professional collaboration, and utilize research and the skills of policy practice to benefit clients. They are increasingly expected to apply a multilayered understanding of generalist practice concepts and skills to their work with clients. Students gain greater awareness of their own value base and its compatibility to professional social work values, and can utilize more sophisticated expression of their dilemmas through the supervisory and self-evaluative process. They must also demonstrate greater professional responsibility by preparing supervisory agendas; monitor both learning and client goals by evaluating progress made toward both. Learning contracts are further refined, and tasks are operationalized and tethered to the mid-semester field evaluation. Again, students are required to participate in the self-evaluation process continually throughout the semester both in oral and written evaluation sessions, as well as evaluating their field experience and supervisor. A co requisite of SWK 612 is required.