Graduate Second-Year Clinical Specialization
Field Goals and Objectives

The student will be expected to:

GOAL 1: Pursue professional self-development with a commitment to social justice and professional values and ethics.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Use verbal and written communication skills to convey an understanding of the role of a clinical social worker working with family systems.
2. Complete all work with clarity and accuracy.
3. Function as a learner who seeks out opportunities within the agency system for personal and professional growth.

Winter Quarter: Take the initiative in organizing the learning experience, accurately evaluate personal levels of performance, and implement necessary changes.
Spring Quarter: Engage in practice utilizing the values and principles of the NASW Code of Ethics.

GOAL 2: Illustrate "use of self" in relationship to client systems, the field instructor, and agency personnel with particular appreciation for cultural and social diversity in rural environments.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Recognize different social work roles and differentiate their use in the provision of clinical services to family systems in the rural environment.
2. Recognize the field instructor-student relationship as a medium for learning and bring an organized, creative attitude to the process.

Winter Quarter:

1. Use self-awareness and relationship skills to quickly establish rapport with client systems, as necessary to begin the strengths' assessment process.
2. Continue to assess personal feelings and attitudes as measures of sensitivity to multiculturalism and other situations of potential vulnerability and oppression.

Spring Quarter: Recognize that growth occurs through a variety of interactions, including conflictive situations where resolutions result from open, non-defensive behavior.

GOAL 3: Promote integration of the agency and the community human service delivery system as resources in performing social work roles.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Seek out opportunities within the agency-community system for personal and professional growth.
2. Recognize the agency as an integral part of the rural community network and work cooperatively for the welfare of families.

Winter Quarter:

1. Initiate contacts with community resources and make appropriate plans regarding client needs.
2. Apply an advanced understanding of the agency as a system.

Spring Quarter:

1. Develop an understanding of the potentials within the agency and community.
2. Engage in appropriate investigation and evaluation.

GOAL 4: Formulate and utilize the professional relationship in engaging and working with the client system to identify strengths and goals.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Sustain appropriate relationships with family systems which reflect the integration of theoretical materials from coursework.
2. Discover and appreciate the strengths that individuals, couples, and families bring to therapeutic interactions.

Winter Quarter:

1. Differentiate and provide focus to the pertinent data, minimizing time and energy spent on irrelevant issues.
2. Draw on the different knowledge bases presented in the methods courses and be open to experiencing self in a variety of assessment modalities.
3. Formulate the unique assessment skills necessary when establishing and implementing a small group.

Spring Quarter:

1. Execute a contract (written or oral) for service with a client after conducting a thorough assessment appropriate to the client's concerns and capabilities.
2. Recognize the special needs of different populations and seek out resources that will help them make the most efficient use of agency services in the rural environment.

GOAL 5: Develop interventions which are culturally and age appropriate and which are sensitive to potentially vulnerable and/or oppressed groups, while working with individuals, families, small groups, organizations, and communities in rural environments.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Connect the assessment process with developmentally and culturally appropriate interventions and effectively communicate this knowledge to the field instructor.
2. Evaluate how social work values and principles are expressed in the process of change and transition for individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations.

Winter Quarter:

1. Use knowledge from coursework and new information gained in supervision to evaluate clinical interventions.
2. Attend to the immediate treatment issues while gaining an awareness of deeper or more expanded issues for clients and their families.
3. Demonstrate understanding and skill in small group facilitation.

Spring Quarter:

1. Evaluate self-development and pursue the refinement of intervention skills with sensitivity, perception, and empathy.
2. Show evidence of generalized learning from one case to others and from theory to practice.

GOAL 6: Demonstrate the importance of and implications of transitions as they relate to diverse populations in multiple practice settings, particularly those in rural environments.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Recognize that the process of clinical intervention must include attention to those experiences which interrupt, change, or terminate the therapeutic process.
2. Use knowledge about community resources and agency programs in setting future goals with clients and their families.

Winter Quarter: Recognize that summary materials must clearly indicate the process and outcome of interventions, with appropriate referrals made upon termination.
Spring Quarter:

1. Recognize the personal growth that results from involvement of self in the ending experiences with staff, clients, groups, and the supervisor.
2. Plan future career goals resulting from the commitment to social work values and the evaluation of strengths.

GOAL 7: Support evaluation and develop research skills and methods as necessary components of social work practice.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter: Strive to achieve objective evaluation of own practice.
Winter Quarter:

1. Evaluate the agency and/or community services and communicate results in a creative and non-threatening manner.
2. Design and implement an ongoing research project.

Spring Quarter: Explore opportunities to assess practice methods and outcomes.