SWK-666 Advanced Field Placement and Seminar I

This course is a clinical social work field placement in a social service agency accompanied by a seminar designed to apply learning to clinical social work practice. Placement in an agency is arranged collaboratively with the field director. Weekly synchronous seminar provides opportunities for students to discuss and demonstrate application of knowledge, values, skills, critical thinking, and management of emotions in the context of clinical social work practice. Students teach one another about the variety of settings in which clinical practice occurs and provide a support system for one another. Required time spent in the agency is an average of 16 hours per week for eight weeks. The clinical field experience requires a total of 500 hours accumulated over the course of four field and seminar courses. A minimum of 125 hours must be completed in this first advanced field placement course. Prerequisites: SWK-650, SWK-655, and SWK-672

Credits

3

Distribution

SWK

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