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Is able to critique specific practice transactions; can identify skills used, and demonstrates increased skills;
Demonstrates flexible, non-stereotyped practice with clients from diverse backgrounds;
Demonstrates flexible, non-stereotyped practice with clients from at-risk populations;
Identifies skills to which he/she should pay special attention in the Advanced curriculum.
II. SOCIAL WORK SYSTEMS
The student:
Attitude Objectives
Accepts that social work’s person-in-situation requires understanding of and skill in working with the multiple
systems that have an impact upon individuals;
Demonstrates commitment to learning about different systems by mastering relevant classroom learning
and using it to understand and analyze the different types and levels of systems involved in specific practice
episodes;
Knowledge Objectives
a) In the Agency Setting
Understands the agency’s function;
Is aware of the agency’s history and ways in which it has adapted to changing circumstances;
Understands the agency’s goals and can discuss how the goals are operationalized;
Can identify the social policy or policies that guide, underpin, and/or influence the delivery of service(s) in the
agency;
Is familiar with the agency’s resource environment and its impact upon agency policy, programs, and practice;
Is familiar with the agency’s task environment and with its inter-organizational relationships;
Identifies how the agency as context affects clients and staff;
Relates his/her observations of the agency to social work values and identifies value conflicts which commonly
occur between clients, social workers and the agency;
Understands the generic base of practice with and within organizations and is aware of the specialized
knowledge, theory and skills required for advanced practice in administration;
b) In Community and Inter-Organizational Practice
Knows that she/he represents the agency in her/his contacts with other agencies and community institutions;
Is aware of the community context in which the agency operates, and identifies attributes of the community
which support good psychosocial functioning and attributes which contribute to psychosocial dysfunction;
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