Essential Skills for Clinical Social Work Practice

Catalog description

The Essential Skills for Clinical Social Work Practice course is an advanced graduate course intended for second-year MSW students to reflect, review and consolidate their graduate studies into a coherent and structured plan of practice as social work professionals. The Essential Skills of Clinical Social Work Practice course, reviews, connects and links together all the vital composite elements presented in the MSW graduate course of study, enabling the MSW student to formulate a deliberative plan of practice to guide their beginning social work career. The course covers the operationalization of specific elements into a plan of social work practice: values/ethics, people skills, practice skills, clinical skills and legal/regulatory issues. At the conclusion of the course, students will have prepared a coherent plan of practice.