Practicum I
Overview
The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:
- Practicum settings create opportunities for students to apply skills in a social service setting while benefiting from the expertise of skilled mentors in the field.
- Students gain both insight and practice knowledge from field experiences.
- Practitioners who regularly and accurately assess and reflect on their performance and who set goals for their ongoing professional development are more likely to be effective in their work.
- A well-developed personal philosophy of practice is a cornerstone of competent human service practice.
- Seminar
- Field practice
This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- Practice reports
- Self-evaluation
- Field assessment
This course is graded Mastery/Non-Mastery
Upon successful completion of this course, within the following content areas, the student will be able to:
- Professional Skills:
- demonstrate professional skills consistent with Canadian Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics
- establish effective, professional working relationships with practicum supervisors, agency staff, clients and colleagues, including seeking and accepting feedback
- demonstrate ability to complete assigned workload in a timely and professional manner
- demonstrate ability to deal with time and stress pressures with professionalism
- Administrative Skills:
- prepare accurate, objective, up-to-date file recordings, forms and letters, using appropriate terminology
- Basic Knowledge of Agency and Community Resources:
- demonstrate basic knowledge of the agency and the needs of the clients serviced by the agency
- demonstrate basic knowledge of legislation and policies affecting the agency
- demonstrate knowledge of community resources and an ability to carry out referrals as appropriate
- Interviewing and Communication Skills (colleagues and clients):
- demonstrate ability to conduct effective interviews with client
- demonstrate ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of clients utilizing an empathic, problem-solving and strengths-based approach
- demonstrate assertiveness, self-awareness and appropriate personal boundaries
TBA
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
Institution | Transfer Details for CSSW 1240 |
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College of the Rockies (COTR) | COTR HSWR 118 (4) |
Trinity Western University (TWU) | TWU PSYC 1XX (3) |