School of Social Work

SOWK 488 BSW FIELD PLACEMENT

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LEARNING PLAN

Adrienne Long Agency: Serve 6.8 BSW/MSW Field Instructor: Lisa LaDue On-site Supervisor: Chelsea Green Field Liaison: Joni Handran
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Spring 2014 Phone: (505) 321-4192 lisaladue@gmail.com Phone: (319) 360-0495 Email: Email: cgreen@serve68.org Phone: (970) 481-2328 jonihandran@yahoo.com Phone: (720) 261-7042 Email:
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The learning plan is a working document and may be updated or revised during the field placement.
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Lisa LaDue, LCSW

3/6/14
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Chelsea Green

6 March 2014
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BSW/MSW Field Instructor

On-site Supervisor (if applicable)

Adrienne Long
Student
ST/1/2014

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Generalist Foundation Competencies and Practice Behaviors Competency 1: Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.
Practice Behaviors
a. Advocate for client access to services of social work; b. Practice personal reflection and self correction to assure continual professional development; c. Attend to professional roles and boundaries; d. Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior, appearance, and communication; e. Engage in career-long learning; and f. Use supervision and consultation.
Social workers serve as representatives of the profession, its mission, and its values. They know the professions history. Social workers commit themselves to the professions enhancement and to their own professional conduct and growth.

Learning Experiences
- I will practice self correction by utilizing my internship supervisor and field instructor for advise and guidance when I am struggling with a situation concerning a client. - Journaling, at least once a week, will allow me to practice personal reflection and grow in my professional development. - During weekly meetings, I will present my clients' most pressing needs to my agency and advocate for their right of service.

Competency 2: Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.

Practice Behaviors
a. Recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to guide practice; b. Make ethical decisions by apply standards of the NASW Code of Ethics and, as applicable, of the IFSW/IASSW Ethics in Social Work, Statement of Principles; c. Tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts; and apply strategies of ethical reasoning to arrive at principled decisions.

Social workers have an obligation to conduct themselves ethically and to engage in ethical decision-making. Social workers are knowledgeable about the value base of the profession, its ethical standards, and relevant laws.

Learning Experiences
- I will refer to the NASW Code of Ethics when faced with an ethical dilemma that creates conflict between policy guidelines and clients' needs. - When my personal values interfere with my practice, I will take a deep breath and focus on the clients' needs first. After meeting with the client, I will reflect on how my personal values were triggered and examine how I can move forward during my next meeting with the client. - I will manage ambiguity by consulting with other interns, direct supervisor, and my field director to approach the situation from a principled standpoint.

Competency 3: Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.

Practice Behaviors
a. Distinguish, appraise, and integrate multiple sources of knowledge, including research-based knowledge and practice wisdom; b. Analyze models of assessment, prevention, intervention, and evaluation; and c. Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and colleagues.

Social workers are knowledgeable about the principles of logic, scientific inquiry, and reasoned discernment. The use of critical thinking is augmented by creativity and curiosity. Critical thinking also requires the synthesis and communication of relevant information.

Learning Experiences
- I will read three peer reviewed articles, focused on trauma counseling, and integrate this knowledge into my practice when working with clients who are survivors of a disaster. - Adapt intake forms and assessments in a way that best serves the clients, and preserves data in a meaningful way for the agency. - Document and log client interaction in a way that can be used effectively by agency personnel after my internship.

Competency 4: Engage diversity and difference in practice.

Social workers understand how diversity characterizes and shapes the human experience and is critical to the formation of identity. The dimensions of diversity are understood as the intersectionality of multiple factors including age, class, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, political ideology, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation. Social workers appreciate that, as a consequence of difference, a persons life experiences may include oppression, poverty, marginalization, and alienation as well as privilege, power and acclaim.

Practice Behaviors
a. Recognize the extent to which a cultures structures and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power; b. Gain sufficient self-awareness to eliminate the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse groups; c. Recognize and communicate their understanding of the importance of difference in shaping life experiences; and d. View themselves as learners and engage those with whom they work as informants.

Learning Experiences
- While working with disaster survivors, I will self-reflect on my own privilege to empathize and empower clients in a positive way. - To fully serve the client base, I will become a traveling case manager who will broker comprehensive treatment to isolated survivors, who are feeling varying degrees of trauma. - I will view clients as experts of their own experience, and will gather information on reliable resources based on their interactions with local agencies.

Competency 5: Advance human rights and social and economic justice.

Each person, regardless of position in society, has basic human rights, such as freedom, safety, privacy, and adequate standard of living, health care, and education. Social workers recognize the global interconnections of oppression and are knowledgeable about theories of justice and strategies to promote human and civil rights. Social work incorporates social justice practices in organizations, institutions, and society to ensure that these basic human rights are distributed equitably and without prejudice.

Practice Behaviors
a. Advocate for human rights and social and economic justice; and b. Engage in practices that advance social and economic justice.

Learning Experiences
- I will provide comprehensive case management skills, which entails traveling to isolated clients, in order to meet their socio-economic needs. - Research and put into practice the Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), which will help guide my case management approaches in the field.

Competency 6: Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.

Practice Behaviors
a. Use practice experience to inform scientific enquiry; and b. Use research evidence to inform practice.

Social workers use practice experience to inform research, employ evidence-based interventions, evaluate their own practice, and use research findings to improve practice, policy, and social service delivery. Social workers comprehend quantitative and qualitative research and understand scientific and ethical approaches to building knowledge.

Learning Experiences
- I will use the National Disaster Recovery Framework to inform my practice with disaster survivors. ' - Read two peer reviewed articles concerning the Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), which is the underlying structure that guides the Disaster Navigator internship. - Research mindfulness and somatic counseling techniques, to be better equiped to destress clients suffering from trauma. - Attend at least two disaster trainings that are provided outside of the agency. - Research FEMA guidelines and be able to apply them when interacting with clients.

Social workers are knowledgeable about human behavior across the life course; the range of social systems in which people live; and the ways social systems promote or deter people in maintaining or achieving health and well-being. Social workers apply theories and knowledge from the liberal arts to understand biological, social, cultural, psychological, and spiritual development.

Competency 7: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.

Practice Behaviors
a. Utilize conceptual frameworks to guide the processes of assessment, intervention, and evaluation; and b. Critique and apply knowledge to understand person and environment.

Learning Experiences
- By using a systems perspective, I will consult with clients in a way that will empower them to take action towards the goals that they want to accomplish. - Apply mindful and somatic techniques to help clients deescalate when it is appropriate. - I will build on my interviewing skills to better understand how the individual interacts within their own environment, and apply intervention steps when necessary.

Competency 8: Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services.
Practice Behaviors
a. Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance social well-being; and b. Collaborate with colleagues and clients for effective policy action.

Social workers understand that policy affects service delivery, and they actively engage in policy practice. Social workers know the history and current structures of social policies and services, the role of policy in service delivery, and the role of practice in policy development.

Learning Experiences
- Assist in data tracking and reporting to better reform policies surrounding disaster recovery guidelines. - Attend one legislative reform meeting in order to better represent the needs of the agency. - Organize and attend community meetings to keep up with current issues that can be used to guide policy change. - Attend one Community Development Block Grant meeting, to gain insight on what the community values and envisions for rebuilding projects.

Competency 9: Respond to contexts that shape practice.

Practice Behaviors
a. Continuously discover, appraise, and attend to changing locales, populations, scientific and technological developments, and emerging societal trends to provide relevant services; and b. Provide leadership in promoting sustainable changes in service delivery and practice to improve the quality of social services.

Social workers are informed, resourceful, and proactive in responding to evolving organizational, community, and societal contexts at all levels of practice. Social workers recognize that the context of practice is dynamic, and use knowledge and skill to respond proactively.

Learning Experiences
- Identify and connect to community leaders, in order to support them through the process of becoming resource specialists for their own areas. This will promote sustainable and resilient communities in a time of disaster. - Practice and improve upon comprehensive case management practices to provide the best services for disaster survivors. - I will make personal connections with three local agencies, which will help me advocate for my clients outside of my agency.

Competency 10: Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.

Professional practice involves the dynamic and interactive processes of engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation at multiple levels. Social workers have the knowledge and skills to practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Practice knowledge includes identifying, analyzing, and implementing evidence-based interventions designed to achieve client goals; using research and technological advances; evaluating program outcomes and practice effectiveness; developing, analyzing, advocating, and providing leadership for policies and services; and promoting social and economic justice.

Practice Behaviors a.
i. ii. iii.

Engagement
Substantively and affectively prepare for action with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities; Use empathy and other interpersonal skills; and Develop a mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired outcomes.

Learning Experiences
- I will contact clients once a week to build rapport and facilitate action plans that will empower them to fulfill their goals. - I will utilize the skills of my internship partner when meeting with a client in order to build off of her skill set and better inform my practice. - I will use mitigation to help communities better prepare for future disasters.

b. Assessment and Planning

i. ii. iii. iv. Collect, organize, and interpret client data; Assess client strengths and limitations; Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives; and Select appropriate intervention strategies.

Learning Experiences
- Organize client data into reliable tracking to show patterns for future use. - Track useful community resources in order to build a resource book for clients and communities. - Meet with clients to determine timely and achievable goals that will help them meet their own needs. - I will take a strength based approach when interviewing clients, so that I can approach their situation from a positive view point.

c. Intervention
i. ii. iii. iv. v. Initiate actions to achieve organizational goals; Implement prevention interventions that enhance client capacities; Help clients resolve problems; Negotiate, mediate, and advocate for clients; Facilitate transitions and endings.

Learning Experiences
- Meet with individuals and local groups to build synergistic communities, which are connected to reliable resources. - Meet face-to-face with clients and be a direct line of support when connecting them with resources. - Directly advocate for clients within the agency, as well as making personal connections to outside agencies, to facilitate services in a timely manner.

d. Evaluation
i. Social Workers critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate interventions.

Learning Experiences
- I will reflect on my work with clients by bringing my cases to my supervisors, as well as reflecting in my journal. - I will share and network with other interns to discuss which intervention styles worked best with their clients.