Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice I

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior. Using knowledge about professional skills and ethics, students will engage in a therapeutic relationship demonstrating professionalism, empathy, and responsiveness to diversity and difference. (K, V, S)
• Advance human rights and racial, social, economic, and environmental justice. Students will recognize and respond to differences and form assessments based on knowledge about cultural responsiveness. (K, S)
• Students will reflect on their own personal values relative to cultural differences. (V, C/A)
• Engage anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion in practice. Students will recognize the impact of oppression and trauma in the lives of those they work with and will use knowledge about oppression, discrimination and historical trauma to inform intervention planning. (K, C/A)
• Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice. Students will critically appraise evidence-based practices and they will use practice-based evidence to shape intervention planning. (K, S)
• Students will reflect on the impact that practice knowledge has on how interventions are shaped. (C/A)
• Engage in policy practice. Students will recognize how policy, particularly policy related to third-party payers and funding, shapes clinical practice., (K, C/A)
• Engage with individuals, families, and groups. Students will use knowledge about building therapeutic rapport to demonstrate establishing a meaningful therapeutic relationship. (K, S)
• Students will reflect on challenges they encounter with particular population groups and/or individual attributes in order to identify areas for clinical growth. (V, C/A)
• Assess individuals, families, and groups. Using knowledge about diagnostic indicators, students will demonstrate skills relative to assessing and diagnosing mental disorders. (K, S)
• Intervene with individuals, families, and groups. Students will choose an appropriate, evidence-based intervention that is culturally responsive to the person served and based on values of ethical social work practice. (K, S, V)
• Evaluate practice with individuals, families, and groups. Students will use knowledge about single subject design and program evaluation to form a plan for measuring clinical outcomes. (K, S)

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Role Play Assignment	40% (200 points)
Case Analysis	40% (200 points)
Reading Reflection and Clinical Practice Portfolio	20% (200 points)

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance and Participation are not graded components of this course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

• American Psychiatric Association (2022, 5th ed. TR). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Disorders, (DSM-5), Text Revision. Washington, D.C.
• Paris, J. (2013). The intelligent clinician’s guide to DSM-5. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Morrison, J. (2024). The DSM-5 TR made easy: The clinician’s guide to diagnosis. New York: Guilford Press.