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Assignment 2: Mid-Term Evaluation and Self-Assessment

Prior to your field education experience, you completed an agency learning agreement that outlined potential goals and objectives related to social work practice skills that you sought to acquire during this course.

Like a contract, your agency learning agreement also provided your field instructor a set of criteria that would measure your social work practice skills. For this course, you will undergo a formal evaluation of your social work practice skills.

As you engage in future field education experiences, you will be able to refine and hone the development of those skills.

For this Assignment, review your agency learning agreement and the results of your midterm evaluation. Consider how your field education experience fulfilled the goals and objectives in your agency learning agreement. Reflect on what you would like to gain in future field education experiences.

Note: You should receive your midterm evaluation from your field instructor.

The Assignment (4-5 pages):

· Describe whether you met or did not meet the goals/objectives in your agency learning agreement and include the results from your evaluation.

· Compare your learning agreement and your evaluation to critically consider how the two are compatible and how you may approach completing the learning agreement differently next term.

· Describe the social work practice skills you developed.

· Describe potential areas where you might need improvement in relation to social work practice skills, ethics, or professionalism.

· Explain how your next field education experience might address those areas.

· Explain how participation in this course might inform your future field courses, what will you do the same, what will you do differently.

· Be sure to submit the results of your evaluation to this assignment

Here’s a copy Of the Evaluation

Competency 1 – Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior

5 = highly competent, 4 = clearly competent, 3 = minimally competent, 2 = inadequately competent, 1 = fail, NA = not observed

Score

Criteria

4

1. Makes clinically appropriate decisions based on the NASW Code of Ethics, and other local, state, and federal legal statutes and regulations.

4

2. Identifies and manages personal values to provide clinical service delivery, according to professional values and standards.

4

3. Incorporates professional behavior when engaging clients, families, colleagues, and other professionals.

4

4. Evaluates the ethical and appropriate use of technology to facilitate delivery of clinical social work services.

4

5. Integrates principles of supervision and consultation to guide professional judgement and behavior.

4

6. Demonstrates professional development by identifying the specialized skills and knowledge needed to practice clinical social work.

Please provide over-all feedback on this competency:

Alma displays professional and ethical behavior.

Competency 2 – Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice

5 = highly competent, 4 = clearly competent, 3 = minimally competent, 2 = inadequately competent, 1 = fail, NA = not observed

Score

Criteria

5

7. Demonstrates cultural awareness by recognizing and integrating diverse populations’ varying values, culture, norms, and beliefs throughout the therapeutic process.

5

8. Demonstrates cultural humility by managing personal biases when partnering with clients.

5

9. Communicates in a culturally responsive way recognizing various community structures, norms, and values.

Please provide over-all feedback on this competency:

Alma displays culutural awareness

Competency 3 – Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice

5 = highly competent, 4 = clearly competent, 3 = minimally competent, 2 = inadequately competent, 1 = fail, NA = not observed

Score

Criteria

4

10. Examines the effects of oppression, discrimination, structural social inequality, and historical trauma on clients/constituents and their systems to guide intervention planning.

4

11. Chooses social work clinical practices that promote human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.

Please provide over-all feedback on this competency:

Alma practices the above

Competency 4 – Engage In Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice

5 = highly competent, 4 = clearly competent, 3 = minimally competent, 2 = inadequately competent, 1 = fail, NA = not observed

Score

Criteria

3

12. Critically evaluates evidence based and “best practice” treatment interventions.

3

13. Develops clinical intervention plans based on the best available research and “best practices”.

Please provide over-all feedback on this competency:

This is an area Alma continues to practice in and can continue learning and utilizing her social work skills.

Competency 5 – Engage in Policy Practice

5 = highly competent, 4 = clearly competent, 3 = minimally competent, 2 = inadequately competent, 1 = fail, NA = not observed

Score

Criteria

NA

14. Critically evaluates and creates awareness about agency and/or government policies and regulations that impact the well-being of clients.

NA

15. Applies critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that support the needs of clients who present for clinical services.

Please provide over-all feedback on this competency:

Opportunity has been limited thus far.

Competency 6 – Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

5 = highly competent, 4 = clearly competent, 3 = minimally competent, 2 = inadequately competent, 1 = fail, NA = not observed

Score

Criteria

Individuals

4

16. Uses empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to engage diverse clients in the therapeutic process.

Families

4

17. Uses empathy, reflection, interpersonal skills, and knowledge of human behavior and the social environment and family systems to engage with families.

Groups

NA

18. Uses empathy, reflection, interpersonal skills, and knowledge of group dynamics to engage group members in the group process.

3

19. Engages with inter-professional teams and stakeholders associated with clients’ care.

Organizations

3

20. Engages with organizations that provide services, support, advocacy, and resources to support to clients.

Communities

3

21. Identifies and actively participates in opportunities to communicate with community leaders and members about community service gaps for clients.

Please provide over-all feedback on this competency:

Working towards more competency in engagement skills with outside providers and more proficiency in more thorough engagement during assessments.

Competency 7 – Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

5 = highly competent, 4 = clearly competent, 3 = minimally competent, 2 = inadequately competent, 1 = fail, NA = not observed

Score

Criteria

Individuals

3

22. Conducts clinical assessments that provide information about the biopsychosocial-spiritual needs of clients.

3

23. Uses critical thinking to apply the strengths perspective and theories of human behavior and the social environment when analyzing and interpreting assessment information in a clinical setting.

4

24. Develops mutually agreed-upon evidence-based therapeutic interventions that consider culture, values, and safety.

Families

3

25. Conducts family assessments to understand family roles, functioning, relationships, resources, and support needs.

NA

26. Uses critical thinking to apply theories of family systems when analyzing and interpreting family functioning, support, and dynamics.

Groups

4

27. Identifies the professional social work role in inter-professional and supervision group meetings and assesses how that role contributes to the group’s purpose.

4

28. Assesses the functioning and needs of professional and/or client focused groups, and considers the best intervention strategies, based on professional knowledge and ethics.

Organizations

4

29. Assesses how the agency’s mission, structure, vision, connect to client outcomes.

3

30. Uses critical thinking to consider the strengths and limitations of therapeutic services provided to clients.

Communities

4

31. Develops knowledge about community resources, resources, governance, political climate, and initiatives to support mental health.

4

32. Uses critical thinking to consider the strengths and limitations of the community and how those impact the functioning of clients.

Please provide over-all feedback on this competency:

Assessments is a big topic that Alma has been practicing a lot with on her weekly internship. This is a big part of hospital social work and these have to be proficient skills in order to work effectively in this type of setting. This is an ongoing goal for Alma to produce completed, detailed yet concise assessments and timely ones as hospital social work is fast paced.

Competency 8 – Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

5 = highly competent, 4 = clearly competent, 3 = minimally competent, 2 = inadequately competent, 1 = fail, NA = not observed

Score

Criteria

Individuals

NA

33. Implements therapeutic interventions based on the strengths perspective, biopsychosocial needs, and current theories appropriate for the setting and client needs.

4

34. Utilizes appropriate resources and services for clients.

Families

NA

35. Implements family interventions based on the strengths perspective, family culture, family systems theory, and evidence-based practice.

4

36. Utilizes appropriate resources, services, and interventions for families.

Groups

NA

37. Uses professional ethics, knowledge, and evidence-based interventions in groups.

Organizations

3

38. Participates in opportunities to improve agency/organization service delivery that will support the needs of clients.

Communities

3

39. Explores and actively participates in opportunities to advocate for community services and support mental health services.

Please provide over-all feedback on this competency:

There has been minimal opportunity for this due to time constraints of internship hours.

Competency 9 – Evaluates with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

5 = highly competent, 4 = clearly competent, 3 = minimally competent, 2 = inadequately competent, 1 = fail, NA = not observed

Score

Criteria

Individuals:

NA

40. Evaluates the effectiveness of therapeutic intervention strategies for with individuals.

NA

41. Utilizes evaluation data to inform new intervention strategies.

Families

NA

42. Evaluates the effectiveness of intervention strategies used to improve family functioning and support.

NA

43. Utilizes evaluation data to inform new intervention strategies and resources.

Groups

NA

44. Evaluates the effectiveness of group related processes.

NA

45. Utilizes evaluation data to inform future group processes.

Organizations

4

46. Evaluates the effectiveness of social services and intervention strategies provided by agencies to support clients.

4

47. Utilizes evaluation data to inform advocacy initiatives to improve services.

Communities

4

48. Evaluates the effectiveness of community services and resources for clients and their families.

4

49. Utilizes evaluation data to inform advocacy initiatives.

Please provide over-all feedback on this competency:

Opportunities for this has been limited but ______has been able to utilize skills for the organization and communities resources