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Part II: Curriculum Objectives
The categories on the following pages are objectives in the Advanced Clinical Practice Field Instruction
Guide. Please note the student’s performance by checking the appropriate column “Pass”, “Pass-(Needs
Improvement’), “Fail”, or “No Opportunity to Observe”. Please provide illustration of your concerns by
elaborating about the student’s inconsistent behavior in the space provided following this section. Refer to
the Learning Objectives for Advanced Clinical Practice Field Instruction for more detailed descriptions of
each of the following objectives.
KNOWLEDGE OBJECTIVES
A. Develop knowledge about the broad social context
within which clinical transactions take place .
B. Develop knowledge about the agency, it’s history,
services or programs, the community context, and
interorganizational relationships.
C. Gain Knowledge about human behavior (e.g. multicausal
nature, systemic Concepts, bio-psychosocial
concepts, socio-cultural determinants, oppression,
life-cycle perspective, personality development,
theories of psychopathology, trauma)
D. Develop knowledge about the structure and dynamics
of groups.
E. Develop knowledge about the structure and dynamics
of families .
F. Develop knowledge of principles governing effective
communication with and on behalf of clients,
particularly with populations at risk
G. Develop knowledge of professional role (e.g. selfawareness,
professional relationships, ethical relationships,
different roles of the social worker).
H. Elaborate the ways in which individuals diverse
characteristics (e.g. social status race, ethnicity, age,
gender, sexual orientation, spirituality, and health
status) impact their abilities to access services and
effect client transactions.
I. Develop Knowledge of evidence based interventions.
SKILL OBJECTIVES
A. Ability to implement role demand and an advanced
student.
B. Ability to engage clients in a professional relationship.
C. Ability to assess the request and need for help.
D. Ability to judge the degree of urgency in the
client’s request for service.
E. Ability to recognize the impact of diversity, social and
economic injustice, and oppress-ion on social work
practice.
Pass
Pass – Needs
Improvement Fail
No Opportunity
to Observe
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