To Be Completed by the Student in Collaboration with the Supervisor

Bridgewater State University School of Social Work Learning Contract: BSW Senior and MSW Foundation Year

(To be completed by the student in collaboration with the supervisor)

Student’s Name: Agency: Date of Semester: Fall Spring (please circle) Submission: BSW senior, MSW foundation (please circle) Student Learning Activities Core Competencies (Action Steps) Target Date

EP2.2.1: Identify as a social worker and conduct oneself accordingly

Practice Behaviors  Advocate for client access to services of social work 1.  Practice personal reflection 2.  Attend to professional roles and boundaries 3.  Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior, appearance 4. and communication  Engage in career –long learning 5.  Use supervision and consultation 6.

EP2.1.2: Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice

Practice Behaviors  Recognize and manage personal values 1.  Make ethical decisions by applying standards of the NASW 2.  Tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts 3.  Apply strategies of ethical reasoning 4. EP2.1.3: Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments

Practice Behaviors  Distinguish, appraise, and integrate multiple sources of 1. knowledge  Analyze models of assessment, prevention, intervention, and 2. evaluation  Demonstrate effective oral and written communication 3.

EP2.1.4: Engage diversity and difference in practice

Practice Behaviors  Recognize the extent to which a culture’s structures and 1. values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege or power  Gain sufficient self-awareness to eliminate the influence of 2. personal biases and values in working with diverse groups  Recognize and communicate their understanding of the 3. importance of difference in shaping life experiences  View themselves as learners and engage those with whom 4. they work as informants

EP2.1.5: Advance human rights and social and economic justice

Practice Behaviors  Understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and 1. discrimination  Advocate for human rights and social and economic justice 2.  Engage in practices that advance social and economic justice 3. EP2.1.6: Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research

Practice Behaviors  Use practice experience to inform scientific inquiry 1.  Use research evidence to inform practice 2.

EP2.1.7: Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment

Practice Behaviors  Utilize conceptual frameworks to guide the processes of 1. assessment, intervention and evaluation  Critique and apply knowledge to under person and 2. environment

EP2.1.8: Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services

Practice Behaviors  Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance 1. social well-being  Collaborate with colleagues and clients for effective policy 2. action

EP2.1.9: Respond effectively to the contexts that shape social work practice

Practice Behaviors  Continuously discover, appraise and attend to changing 1. locales, populations, scientific and technological developments and emerging societal trends to provide relevant services  Provide leadership in promoting sustainable changes in 2. service delivery and practice EP2.1.10: Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organization and communities

Practice Behaviors  Effectively prepare for action with individuals, families, 1. groups, organizations and communities  Use empathy 2.  Develop a mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired 3. outcomes  Collect, organize, and interpret client data 4.  Assess client strengths and limitations 5.  Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives 6.  Select appropriate intervention strategies 7.  Initiate actions to achieve goals 8.  Implement prevention interventions 9.  Help clients resolve problems 10. 11.  Negotiate, mediate, and advocate for clients 12.  Facilitate transitions and endings 13.

Student Signature Date

Field Supervisor Signature Date

Field Liaison Signature Date Revision date 9/2014