SOWK 486 - Week 03 - Direct Social Work Practice
A presentation at Heritage University in September 2021 by Jacob Campbell and is tagged with BASW Program, Heritage University, SOWK 486w
Description
Week four of SOWK 486 is about understanding direct social work practice and what makes social workers unique in their helping style. We will start with an exercise, considering how you have been helped in the past. Many clients we work with as social workers a mandated to participate in services and involuntary in some manner. We will discuss how to engage with them through some best practices. The agenda for the session is as follows:
- How we help
- Evidence-based practice
- Involuntary clients
- Ecological Systems Model
- Social work jobs and roles