SWK 4611 Social Work Field Practicum: Intervention and Evaluation
The Molloy Department of Social Work provides 200 hours per semester of directed field learning for seniors majoring in social work, with students spending 14 hours per week in an agency. This practicum is a culminating experience of students’ ability to demonstrate competency through internship in a social service agency under M.S.W. supervision to acquire skills in social work practice and to apply in a field setting the skills, principles, and theories learned in the classroom. The Council on Social Work Education has developed 9 competency areas in which students are to demonstrate skills and abilities regarding generalist practice and these areas are evaluated by field supervisors each fall and spring semester. This course emphasizes competency #8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities and #9: Evaluate practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities and towards this focus, students will apply the other 7 competencies. Anchored in the knowledge base of generalist social work practice, students will be taught pathways to advancing human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. They will incorporate culturally responsive methods to negotiate, mediate, and advocate with and on behalf of clients and constituencies and intervene across micro, mezzo and macro systems. Students will conceptualize the strengths, limitations, supports, needs and resources of those they are serving, and the theoretical and evidence-based practice underpinnings driving intervention methods.
Evaluation of intervention practices and outcomes is also a critical aspect of working with various client systems. This course will facilitate student ability to consider, assess, analyze, and evaluate agency/organization interventions from an outcomes-based lens leading to improvement in practice effectiveness. Students will also be primed to evaluate their own skill competencies to inform areas of strength and those in need of development.
The Seminar will provide multifaceted opportunities for experiential learning achieved through interactive professional skills training via the utilization of process recordings, group supervision, role plays, and student presentations.
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Social WorkOffered
Fall, Spring