Fall 2024 SOWK 581 Week 01: Social Work Practice with Individuals, Families, & Groups

title: Fall 2024 SOWK 581 Week 01: Social Work Practice with Individuals, Families, & Groups date: 2024-08-24 08:00:00 location: Heritage University tags:

  • Heritage University
  • MSW Program
  • SOWK 581 presentation_video: 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

Agenda and Learning Objectives: Week 01

Agenda

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

Learning Objectives

  • Students will gain an overview of this course, 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 clinical practice definitions and related social worker standards.
  • Students will be able to analyze the concept of impostor syndrome and its impact on new clinicians.

Course Syllabus

The General Map of this Class

Meet Your Instructor

Dr. Jacob

  • Work and teaching experience
  • Research and population interests
  • Associate professorship
  • Contact practices and office hours

Course Sequence

How does this course fit in your advanced standing sequence

SOWK 581 Textbooks and Helpful Resources

Assignments

Practice

  • Psychosocial Assessment
  • Intervention Plan Presentation
  • Case Study Paper

Online

  • Weekly online discussion forums
  • Reading quizzes

In-Class In Class Participation/Engagement

My Heritage

Core Tasks of Psychotherapy

(Cooper & Granucci Lesser, 2021)

  • Develop a therapeutic alliance
  • Educate clients
  • Nurture clients’ hope
  • Facilitate development of coping skills
  • Help clients reconsider their beliefs about self/world
  • Nurture clients’ sense of mastery
  • Conduct relapse prevention.

How would you define this? Why is it important? What might the implementation look like?

Developing Your Clinical Practice

  • Practice at the edge of your competence
  • Work on specific skills
  • Recognizing Imposter Syndrome
  • Take note
  • Do, evaluate, do evaluate
  • Seek feedback

Considering Our Thoughts

  • Distorted Thinking
  • All or nothing thinking
  • Labeling
  • Overgeneralizing
  • Assuming
  • Emotional reasoning
  • Dwelling on the negative
  • Rejecting the positive
  • Making unfavorable comparisons
  • Shoulds, oughts, and musts
  • Catastrophising
  • Personalizing
  • Blaming