Columbia School of Social Work
 
Specialized Year Practicum Evaluation
 
Advanced Clinical Practice
 
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Competency 1: Ability to Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior

Advanced Clinical Practice social workers demonstrate ethical and professional values and behavior through a capacity to make informed choices and decisions in direct clinical practice with clients, and to further develop critical understanding of the nuances and complexities of social work practice. They make flexible and appropriate use of the professional relationship across diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities and in the context of supervision and interdisciplinary teams. They recognize the critical nature of professional use of self and strategies to use self-reflection in interdisciplinary work, peer supervision, and supervision. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers are able to assess ethical dilemmas and resolve them in a responsible way, embracing a professional code of behavior and ethics in their practice with individuals, organizations, and communities, and when collaborating with professionals in allied fields. They are aware of laws and regulations related to clinical practice, and procedures to ensure ethical use of technology. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to demonstrate ethical and professional behavior:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in demonstration of ethical and professional behavior:
 
 
 
 

Competency 2: Ability to Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice

Advanced Clinical Practice social workers understand that diversity and difference in practice are key elements of personal knowledge as well as an area for reflection and empowerment in the clinical relationship. They continually evaluate and monitor their own role in a continued effort to decolonize applied practice through self-reflection, supervision, and ongoing study. They also understand how to apply structural analysis in the context of applied practice, through an understanding of the role of power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) in practice. They understand how the intersectionality of age, class, color, culture, disability and ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, marital status, political ideology, race, religion/spirituality, sex, sexual orientation, tribal sovereign status, and other dimensions can affect the life experiences of the person(s) seeking help and the context of the relationship. The Advanced Clinical Practice social worker focuses on self-awareness and humility with attention to diversity and culture as considered through the lenses of PROP, decolonized social work, anti-oppressive practice, and intersectionality. They continually attend to the impact of culture, race, gender, age, values, beliefs, multiple identities, and attitudes on engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation in advanced clinical practice. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to engage diversity and difference in practice:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in engagement of diversity and difference in practice:
 
 
 
 

Competency 3: Ability to Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice

Advanced Clinical Practice social workers understand that a central responsibility of their practice is to advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice. They apply structural analysis to identify how social, economic, and environmental justice concerns factor into the lives and well-being of their clients. They adopt a human-rights focused, anti-oppressive practice to advocate for clients in a variety of community and organizational settings, including when environmental or organizational constraints impinge on clinical practice. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers apply advanced direct practice skills and knowledge across multiple system levels, ranging from individual to global. They endeavor to expand their clients' rights and social and economic assets, and to alleviate their clients' broader social and environmental problems. They are consciously aware of the role of power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) in clinical social work and strive for the decolonization of social work practice. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in advancement of human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice:
 
 
 
 

Competency 4: Ability to Engage In Practice-Informed Research and Research-Informed Practice

Advanced Clinical Practice social workers make use of practice-informed research and engage in research-informed practice to work effectively in clinical practice with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. They use theories and research findings to guide differential assessment, intervention, and evaluation with clients in a range of contexts. They maintain a critical awareness of evidenced-based clinical practices applicable across the life course. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers view the core elements that are common to and undergird widely disseminated evidence-based practices (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, dialectical behavioral therapy, and psychoeducation) as transdiagnostic skills that can be applied differentially with individuals and families in a range of circumstances, settings, and cultures. They value research as a critical tool for practice and as a means for ensuring effective, ethical practice within practical and theoretical limitations. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in engagement in practice-informed research and research-informed practice:
 
 
 
 

Competency 5: Ability to Engage in Policy Practice

Advanced Clinical Practice social workers engage in policy practice to identify, critically analyze, and advocate for federal, state, and local policies that support the mental and behavioral health and overall well-being of their clients, particularly the needs of underrepresented and marginalized populations. They understand the interplay among history, policy, and the oppression of marginalized groups. They recognize how policy formulation, analysis, implementation, evaluation, and changes inform and influence their clinical practice. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers are knowledgeable about developments in policy at the federal, state, and local levels that affect marginalized communities and others served by social work. They work at all system levels to ensure policies align with the needs of the individuals, groups, and communities they serve. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to engage in policy practice:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in engagement in policy practice:
 
 
 
 

Competency 6: Ability to Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Advanced Clinical Practice social workers engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in ways that are culturally responsive and that attend to multiple aspects of identity and intersectionality (e.g., age, class, color, culture, disability and ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, marital status, political ideology, race, religion/spirituality, sex, sexual orientation, and tribal sovereign status). Advanced Clinical Practice social workers use engagement to build and deepen relationships with clients and client systems even when perspectives and values between oneself and client differ. Their work employs an overarching focus on self-awareness and humility with attention to diversity and culture as considered through the lens of anti-oppressive practice and intersectionality. They consider issues of power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) in building and conducting their practice. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers are aware of how their personal experiences, biases, assumptions, affective reactions, and positionality can affect their engagement with clients. They employ human behavior and social environment theories and relationship-building principles within a client-centered approach to guide engagement, assessment, and service planning. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in engagement with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
 
 
 
 

Competency 7: Ability to Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Advanced Clinical Practice social workers capably assess diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities through case and risk assessment, conceptualization, and formulation that draw on a strengths-based, multi-systemic, and power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) perspective. This assessment broadly considers the range of human behavior, and incorporates all dimensions of clients' life situations: e.g., developmental stage and life tasks; physical health and illness; ego capacities; differential clinical features; social, economic, and cultural factors; lifestyles; and functional and dysfunctional features of the environment. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers pay attention to the impact of culture, gender, age, values, beliefs, multiple identities, and attitudes on assessment, formulation, and planned change. They understand effective integration of strengths-based assessment, treatment planning, and risk management. They use differential assessment with populations in a range of contexts and understand how various theories and research findings can guide selection of assessment methods. They collaborate with integrated care teams to determine differential diagnoses and care plans as appropriate that will result in the highest benefit to clients and their access to care. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers continually examine and account for how their own personal experiences, biases, and affective reactions can influence assessment. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in assessment with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
 
 
 
 

Competency 8: Ability to Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Advanced Clinical Practice social workers use advanced and differentially appropriate intervention skills with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. They intervene with evidence-based approaches to achieve client and constituency goals, within the context of client psychosocial profile, environment, and physical and emotional capacity. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers identify resources and supports available to the client in the community, organizations, social networks, and the physical environment, and work with the client to access them. They effectively integrate a strengths-based approach that uses advanced listening, problem definition, goal setting, treatment planning, and intervention to guide the collaborative relationship with the client. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers understand the theories and/or research of human behavior and social environments that guide advanced clinical practice, and can recognize and account for the influence of their own personal experiences and affective reactions that might impact their practice. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
 
 
 
 

Competency 9: Ability to Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities

Advanced Clinical Practice social workers understand that practice evaluation with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities is an iterative and client-oriented process requiring the application of critical insight to the way programs and practices impact and interact with clinical outcomes as well as environmental factors. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers apply advanced evaluation skills that draw on theory and reflect both qualitative and quantitative methods to monitor and evaluate process and outcome of practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. They understand the importance of evaluating risks and benefits of clinical and programmatic interventions to ensure and advance the well-being of their clients and client systems. Advanced Clinical Practice social workers:

Assessment of the student social worker's ability to evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
Examples of how the student social worker has demonstrated competency in evaluation with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities:
 
 
 
 
Overall impression of the student's progress and recommendations for future learning goals:
 
 
 
 
Recommended grade: