| Credits: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Faculty Approval Date: | 10/17/2012 |
This course is a social work foundation offering in methods for macro practice, specifically community organization, management, and policy advocacy. It is partly survey in nature, touching on a range of methods, strategies, and skills. It provides an appreciation of the historical and contemporary importance of these social work methods. The relevance of these methods to diverse populations and identities is addressed. Aspects of culturally sensitive and socially just practice are emphasized.
On completion of this course, students using a generalist social work practice framework will be able to:
1. Describe the historical, social, political and economic forces that have shaped and continue to shape macro practice in social work. (Practice Behaviors 4.1, 9.1)
2. Identify community organization, management, and policy-advocacy strategies for dealing with contemporary social work and social welfare problems. (Practice Behaviors 1.1, 3.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.2, 8.1)
3. Demonstrate beginning level community organization, management, and policy advocacy skills in promoting social work values. (Practice Behaviors 3.1, 3.3, 4.3, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.2, 10.c.1, 10.c.2, 10.c.3, 10.c.4, 10.c.5, 10.d.1)
4. Apply NASW’s Code of Ethics and other professional codes to the selection of action strategies, and in particular applying them to those situations which affect disadvantaged/discriminated against populations. (Practice Behaviors 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 4.2, 5.3)
5. Demonstrate the ability to utilize selected macro assessment tools (e.g., community profiles, asset maps, community needs and strengths assessment, Census data analysis, windshield surveys, SWOT analysis, force field analysis, flow-charts, nominal group technique, task analysis, and ethical analysis) to develop client-centered interventions. (Practice Behaviors 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 7.2; 10.b.1, 10.b.2, 10.b.3, 10.b.4, 10.c.1, 10.c.2, 10.c.3, 10.c.4, 10.c.5 )
6. Specify/identify those situations in which social workers are likely to be central to addressing major social welfare concerns. (Practice Behaviors 5.3, 7.2)
7. Identify salient connections between macro practice and interpersonal practice. (Practice Behaviors 3.2, 7.1, 7.2)
While using the lecture/discussion mode as the primary pattern, class sessions will also include skill building activities and exercises, speakers, and videotapes.
| 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 |
| 1.3 | Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly. | Attend to professional roles and boundaries |
| 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 |
| 2.4 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 6.2 | 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 |
| 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