SW-524 SOCIAL WORK PRAC II
The second practice course in the foundation year focuses on the development of professional skills unique to the middle/ongoing or work phase and the ending phase and transitions. The strengths perspective integral to the interactional approach and life model of social work practice provides the framework for this course. Students will examine current knowledge, professional values, and skills relevant to work with a range of life stressors as they present themselves within diverse populations and diverse communities. Critical to understanding the helping relationship and essential skills is the student's ability to respond to the ways in which individuals, groups, organizations and communities are systematically oppressed and denied access to social, political, and economic resources. This course includes a specific focus on student skill development related to the identification and assessment of service gaps within human service organizations; professional social work role and function; mediation of interpersonal and environmental stressors with individuals, families, groups and communities; and the skillful navigation of the middle and ending phases of the helping relationship. Field Education II must be taken concurrently with this course.