Description

Welcome to the first official week of your MSW program and SOWK 581. This class is one of the more clinically focused classes you will take, and I look forward to learning and growing together. Each week, you will have asynchronous learning tasks to engage in. Every other week, we will also meet in person to practice skills. For the first week, you will consider clinical practice skills definitionally and related to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) standards of clinical practice.

During our in-person session, the following is the agenda:

• Getting settled into the class
• Reviewing the syllabus
• Setting our focus on clinical practice
• Scholarship

The learning objectives this week include:

• Students will gain an overview knowledge of what this course will look like, the assignments used to facilitate learning and demonstrate competency, and what to expect this semester
• Students will self-reflect and examine their own beliefs and ideas around clinical practice
• Students will gain knowledge and awareness regarding definitions of clinical practice and related social worker standards
• Students will be able to analyze the concept of impostor syndrome and its impact on new clinicians