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profession. See how the University of Southern Maine field work experience can help you achieve these competencies.
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Competency 2.1.1: Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly. Develop self-confidence and capacity for independent and interdependent functioning as a professional social worker
Professional Social Workers: Practice personal reflection and self-correction Understand boundaries Utilize supervision time efficiently Function as active listeners Demonstrate Professional demeanor (dress, behavior, etc.) Time managements skills
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Competency 2.1.2: Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice Reflect on, identify the impact of, and manage personal values, feelings, and behavior in a way that allows professional values to guide practice Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice by applying strategies of ethnical reasoning to arrive at principled decisions
Social Workers: Recognize their own personal values in a way that is consistent with professional practice Make ethical decisions by applying standards of the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics.
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Competency 2.1.3: Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments Demonstrate the ability to distinguish between facts, impressions, opinions, and feelings in their work with clients and collateral systems Apply critical thinking skills in the context of practice
Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in working with: a) Individuals b) Families c) Groups d) Organizations e) Communities f) Colleagues
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Demonstrate selfawareness of personal biases and/or values, and how they inform culturally sensitive practice
Recognize ways in which cultural structures and norms may oppress, marginalize, alienate, create, or enhance privilege and power.
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Competency 2.1.5: Advance human rights and social and economic justice Appreciate and understand forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination and work to advance social justice
Advocate
Identify gaps in services and resources with an understanding of the connection between resource disparities and the forces of oppression.
Empower
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Competency 2.1.6: Engage in research informed practice and practice informed research Research
Make observations and pose questions for further investigative research
Correlational
Experimental
Literature reviews
Evaluate the effectiveness of practice interventions
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Competency 2.1.7: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment Apply theories, such as strengths perspective and systems model, within the context of generalist social work practice in the field Apply knowledge of human behavior in assessments, interventions, and evaluations.
Theories
Demonstrate understanding of theories of human behavior
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Competency 2.1.8: Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services Public Policy in Practice Continuously discover, appraise, and attend to changing needs/problems within communities and propose solutions for organizational or policy change
Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance social well being
Competency 2.1.9: Respond to contexts that shape practice Contexts that Shape Practice Develop awareness of the various social and economic forces and trends that influence the delivery and accessibility of social services Understand how organizations and institutions may impede service user need
Collaborate in promoting sustainable changes in service delivery Assist users of services by developing strategies of intervention that can promote improvement of access
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A. ENGAGE Connect with client systems using empathy, active listening and other interpersonal skills Develop mutually agreed upon goals and desired outcomes with client systems B. ASSESS Collect, organize, and interpret client data to C. INTERVENE assess client strengths and limitations in order Help clients resolve problems by implementing to select appropriate intervention strategies preventive interventions that enhance client capacities - facilitate transitions and endings Negotiate, mediate, and advocate for clients while working to support Agencys missions, goals, and objectives D. EVALUATE Critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate interventions
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Competency 2.1.10: Engage, assess, intervene and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities