SOWK 321 Social Work Practice I

General

• Identify appropriate engagement and contracting with individuals, families, and groups.
• Identify the dynamics of the termination process in work with individuals, families, and groups.
• Recognize appropriate communication in the professional interaction.
• Use critical thinking to analyze ethical dilemmas and make beginning professional judgments on courses of action to be taken based on social work values and ethics.
• Use critical thinking to assess the problems, needs, and strengths of the client-system in the environmental context and in the context of the social worker-client interaction.
• Use critical thinking to formulate intervention strategies across all systems for the benefit of individuals, families and groups.
• Use critical thinking to formulate intervention strategies across all systems for the benefit of individuals, families, and groups.
• Use critical thinking to formulate practice evaluation and follow-up plans.
• Use self-observation skills in preparation for working with individual, family, and group client-systems including those who differ from themselves.