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Suggested Learning Activities to Accomplish Practice Behaviors
SOWK 5835 – Fall Semester
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Competency Practice Behavior Suggested Activities
1. Identify as a professional
social worker and conduct
oneself accordingly.
a. advocate for client access to the services of social
work
b. practice personal reflection and self-correction to
assure continual professional development
c. attend to professional roles and boundaries
d. demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior,
appearance, and communication
e. engage in career-long learning
f. use supervision and consultation
• referrals, addressing service gaps and restrictive
eligibility criteria, assisting clients in the actual
application for services
• share with supervisor your thoughts about your
performance as applied to discrete pieces of practice
and plan for ways to improve
• write thoughts about your performance as applied to
discrete piece of practice in a journal
• monitor urges to blur the boundaries, examine the
source of these urges, and maintain awareness to
not act on the urges, achieve to eliminate the source
of any urge to blur boundary, share with supervisor
• read and discuss the intern duties and
responsibilities with your supervisor
• ask supervisor how you are coming across, assess if
you are in the norm of professional behavior at your
agency, practice professional communication by desubjectifying
language and utilizing language
appropriate to the agency setting
• read and follow agency policy and procedures
regarding professional behavior, dress code, and
communication (e.g., case notes, memos, e-mail,
etc.)
• read a minimum of one scholarly article a week to
begin the habit of regular learning
• attend one training in the community pertaining to
field placement (i.e., in-service training, diversity
training, etc.)
• make an agenda for supervision, create a log of
entries of important material learned in supervisory
sessions, seek help from others at the agency