| Credits: | 2 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites: | None |
Foundation field education assists students applying and integrating Foundation knowledge of social work skills, values, and ethics with practice and in developing a professional social work identity. The field experience provides students with a series of supervised field-based assignments and tasks selected to complement Foundation academic courses. Students may be exposed to a variety of social work roles such as case manager, counselor, advocate, organizer, administrator, facilitator, mediator, educator, and planner. In this context, students are expected to develop knowledge, understanding, and skills concerning relationships with clients, supervisors, co-workers and external constituencies. In addition, students will be expected to develop a Foundation understanding of the context of social work practice as it relates to multiculturalism and diversity; social justice and social change; prevention, promotion, treatment and rehabilitation and research-based practice. Within the field curriculum student learning will involve experiential learning and is based on the identification of field-based assignments and learning activities, and regular supervision with a field instructor.
| Competency | Practice Behavior | |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly. | Advocate for client access to the services of social work |
| 1.2 | Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly. | Practice personal reflection and self-correction to assure continual professional development |
| 1.3 | Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly. | Attend to professional roles and boundaries |
| 1.4 | Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly. | Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior, appearance, and communication |
| 1.5 | Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly. | Engage in career-long learning |
| 1.6 | Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly. | Use supervision and consultation |
| 2.1 | Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice. | Recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to guide practice |
| 2.2 | Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice. | Make ethical decisions by applying standards of the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics and, as applicable, of the International Federation of Social Workers/International Association of Schools of Social Work Ethics in Social Work Statement of Principles |
| 2.3 | Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice. | Tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts |
| 2.4 | Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice. | Apply strategies of ethical reasoning to arrive at principled decisions |
| 3.1 | Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments. | Distinguish, appraise, and integrate multiple sources of knowledge, including research-based knowledge, and practice wisdom |
| 3.2 | Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments. | Analyze models of assessment, prevention, intervention, and evaluation |
| 3.3 | Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments. | Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and colleagues |
| 4.1 | Engage diversity and difference in practice. | Recognize the extent to which a culture’s structures and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power |
| 4.2 | Engage diversity and difference in practice. | Gain sufficient self-awareness to eliminate the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse groups |
| 4.3 | Engage diversity and difference in practice. | Recognize and communicate their understanding of the importance of difference in shaping life experiences |
| 4.4 | Engage diversity and difference in practice. | View themselves as learners and engage those with whom they work as informants |
| 5.1 | Advance human rights and social and economic justice. | Understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination |
| 5.2 | Advance human rights and social and economic justice. | Advocate for human rights and social and economic justice |
| 5.3 | Advance human rights and social and economic justice. | Engage in practices that advance social and economic justice |
| 6.1 | Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research. | Use practice experience to inform scientific inquiry |
| 6.2 | Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research. | Use research evidence to inform practice |
| 7.1 | Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment. | Utilize conceptual frameworks to guide the processes of assessment, intervention, and evaluation |
| 7.2 | Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment. | Critique and apply knowledge to understand person and environment |
| 8.1 | Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services. | Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance social well-being |
| 8.2 | Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services. | Collaborate with colleagues and clients for effective policy action |
| 9.1 | Respond to contexts that shape practice. | Continuously discover, appraise, and attend to changing locales, populations, scientific and technological developments, and emerging societal trends to provide relevant services |
| 9.2 | Respond to contexts that shape practice. | Provide leadership in promoting sustainable changes in service delivery and practice to improve the quality of social services |
| 10a.1 | Engagement | Substantively and affectively prepare for action with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities |
| 10a.2 | Engagement | Use empathy and other interpersonal skills |
| 10a.3 | Engagement | Develop a mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired outcomes |
| 10b.1 | Assessment | Collect, organize, and interpret client data |
| 10b.2 | Assessment | Assess client strengths and limitations |
| 10b.3 | Assessment | Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives |
| 10b.4 | Assessment | Select appropriate intervention strategies |
| 10c.1 | Intervention | Initiate actions to achieve organizational goals |
| 10c.2 | Intervention | Implement prevention interventions that enhance client capacities |
| 10c.3 | Intervention | Help clients resolve problems |
| 10c.4 | Intervention | Negotiate, mediate, and advocate for clients |
| 10c.5 | Intervention | Facilitate transitions and endings |
| 10d.1 | Evaluation | Critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate interventions |
University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 South University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106