Practice II

Course Details

Course Number: 3833  Section Number: 01

Fall 2011

Location: Martin Hall

Classroom Number: 106

Days & Times:

TR 12:30

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MSU Faculty Member
Dr. Gary Fashimpar   
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Course Objectives

  

COURSE DESCRIPTION:This course is aimed at developing group leadership methods, ethical decision making, and community social work practice. This course will include skills, knowledge, values and experiences on social group work with large organizations, treatment groups, community groups, self-help groups, oppressed groups and practice with individuals. This course concentrates on generalist skill development. From both an empowerment and an ecological perspective, students will learn to help clients, from individuals to large organizations, build on strengths to improve adaptability to the environment, and to help client systems of all sizes get their needs met through effective interactions with their social environment.

 

Students will have the opportunity to experientially learn to be both a group member and group leader during the semester. Class assignments and exams will be designed to facilitate the student’s integration of theoretical concepts, professional relationship skills, research, interventions, personal experience, and awareness of self into practice with diverse client systems.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

  1. Apply critical thinking skills within the context of professional social work practice.
  2. Understand social work knowledge, values, and skills and apply these to generalist practice.
  3. Practice without discrimination and with respect, knowledge, and skills related to clients’ age, class, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, family structure, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.
  4. Apply the knowledge and skills of generalist social work practice with individuals, groups and organizations and communities.
  5. Use communication skills differentially across client populations, colleagues, and communities.
  6. Develop the use of self in social work practice.

 

EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES:

1.   Discuss how social work knowledge, values, skills and roles fit with generalist practice with organizations, individuals, families and groups.

2.   Demonstrate a capacity to initiate, conduct, intervene in, and terminate with a group.

3.    Demonstrate an awareness of the special needs of diverse populations.

4.    Demonstrate the ability to facilitate group cohesion, and group discussion, by leading a learning group through a structured exercise and evaluating one’s own intervention.

5.    Demonstrate the interpersonal skill to work effectively as a team member.

6.    Have greater insight into the impact of self on interventions.

7.    Describe and analyze organizational and group processes.

8.    Demonstrate an understanding of status, roles, norms, nonverbal and verbal communication patterns, power and the constructive use of confrontation.


Course Expectations

 

ASSIGNMENTS:

I.          Requirements:

A.   Participation: Students are expected to participate in discussion and experiential activities. Your grade may be lowered for absences on the day of structured exercises.

 

B.   Exams: Two (2) exams will be given during the semester. Students may bring one sheet of paper to class with information they think might be on the exam. 

 

C.   Ethical Decision Making Dilemma: In small groups students will arrive at a solution to a case study involving ethical dilemmas such as confidentiality, advocacy, self-determination etc.  Each group will present their solutions to the class along with their ethical bases for their solutions (10 points)

 

  1. Group Planning And Screening Exercise: Students will form small groups and write a treatment group proposal. Each group will role play screening a potential group member. 

 

  1. Organizational Conflict Resolution: Students will first solve an organizational conflict case separately then meet in small groups and arrive at a group solution.

 

  1. Leading A Group Exercise: Each student will bring a group exercise found on the internet or a book to class and lead the class in the exercise. The student leader will demonstrate professional relationship skills and leadership skills.  In processing the exercise the experience will be related to empirical interventions.  The appropriate application of ethics will be demonstrated in the exercise. Students will evaluate the effectiveness of the exercise. The exercise will be turned-in to the professor in writing. Group exercises can be found on the internet or in books listed in the bibliography.

 

  1.  Participation in Group Exercises:  Certain experiential exercises will require a written group product while others will require only verbal or non-verbal participation.  Credit for attendance will be given for being in attendance for those exercises.  Attendance taking will be random. 

    REQUIRED TEXT:         Shulman, L, , (6th). The Skills of Helping Individuals, Families, Groups and Communities. Brooks Cole ISBN# 9780495509639


Final Exam12/8/2010  8:00 am

Submission Format Policy

 

 

 

COURSE OUTLINE

 


 

            TOPICS

 

   ASSIGNMENTS

 

 

  CLASSROOM GROUP

           EXERCISES

 

Introduction

A. Developmental process of work with systems of all sizes.

B. Introductory stage of work with groups, individuals, and organizations

C. Assessment of individuals, groups, and organizations.

D. Planning interventions.

 

 

Ch.10, 11, 12, 13 and 14             

 

 

Video: Non-Voluntary client contracting

 

 

Introductory exercises.

Icebreakers.

 

 

Ethical Decision Exercise Dilemma

 

 

 

 

Social Work With Organizations

A. Conflict Resolution Theory

 

 

 

Group planning exercises

Organizational conflict    resolution exercise.

 

Practice With Individuals and Groups

A. Norms and ethics.

B. Confrontation

C. Family of origin

D. Treatment

E. Multicultural Issues

F. Relaxation theory

 

Video: Diagnosis and Assessment in the Practice of Social Work

 

 

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Exam 1

 

 

 

 

Communication in Practice

 

 

 

Non-verbal exercices.

 

 

 

Practice Models and Theory

A. Strengths perspective

B. Problem solving

C. Behavioral

D. Cognitive

E.  Self-help

F.  Ecological

G. leadership skills

 

 

CH. 15, 16, 17

 

Students begin leading group exercises

 

Children’s activity exercises.

 

Use of self in groups

 

Interventions and Termination With Individuals, Groups and organizations

 

 

 

Anger control.

Self-disclosure of feelings.

Art activity exercise.

 

 

Final Exam December 8th at 8:00 am.

 

 



Note: You may not submit a paper for a grade in this class that already has been (or will be) submitted for a grade in another course, unless you obtain the explicit written permission of me and the other instructor involved in advance.

Late Paper Policy

 

Absence Policy on Missed Exams, Exercises and Assignments:

 

Missed exams may be made up without an excused absence, but the student will be penalized one (1) letter grade (10 points) on the exam. Students must be present on the day of class when exercises or assignments are introduced and completed in order to receive credit.


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Attendance Requirements

 

Absence Policy on Missed Exams, Exercises and Assignments:

 

Missed exams may be made up without an excused absence, but the student will be penalized one (1) letter grade (10 points) on the exam. Students must be present on the day of class when exercises or assignments are introduced and completed in order to receive credit.


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