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

Integrated Practice and Programming social workers demonstrate ethical and professional behavior by working as advanced practitioners who simultaneously attend to the capacities, potential, and unmet needs of clients, client systems, and groups and communities. They focus on planned change and improvement across system levels, using advanced, integrated, and culturally responsive practice. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers are committed to a holistic, ecological approach toward work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. They understand models of cross-system practice and their links to empowerment and disenfranchisement at multiple levels. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers understand how to engage in advanced practice to work with and across various system levels, ranging from individual to global, with a deep understanding of how they relate to the interplay of social and economic assets, problems, and solutions. They understand the ethical and value dilemmas associated with their position as Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers. These concepts transcend individual relationships with clients to encompass work within organizations and communities and with collaborators from other professions. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers are aware of laws and regulations related to their practice, and procedures to ensure ethical use of technology. Integrated Practice and Programming 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

Integrated Practice and Programming social workers engage diversity and difference in practice by working clinically and programmatically with diverse populations across the life course. They strive to incorporate at the forefront of their practice diversity and attention to difference, not only through awareness but also through actions, selecting culturally congruent programming and interventions and incorporating a diversity of voices in decision-making processes. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers understand how diverse client characteristics (e.g., age, class, culture, ethnicity, race, country of origin, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, socioeconomic status) may impact practice across systems. They are able to work with and understand diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, regardless of the degree of similarity or difference from oneself. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers are aware of how their own personal experiences and affective reactions, and their intersectionality impact practice with diverse populations. They are sensitive to the varying roles played by power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) in their own and their clients' lives and how PROP can affect the social resources and services available within a community. They are aware of their unique privileges and powers as professionals and mandated reporters that can play a determinant role for a client, agency, or group of people. Integrated Practice and Programming 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

Integrated Practice and Programming social workers advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice by adopting an anti-bias, anti-racist lens to their practice across systems, engaging in anti-oppressive practice that recognizes the importance of intersectional identities. They understand the powerful psychosocial forces that maintain patterns of prejudice, ethnocentrism, and discrimination by understanding, respecting, valuing, advocating for, and joining with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities who are or have been marginalized and/or disenfranchised. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers apply structural analysis in the context of applied practice, understanding the role of power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) and the decolonization of social work as they relate to social, economic, and environmental justice and their role in rectifying inequities. They identify strengths and resources to combat injustices and inequalities, and advocate for avenues for positive change. Integrated Practice and Programming 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

Integrated Practice and Programming social workers engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice by leveraging the use of research methods as well as using practice insights to benefit and support clinical approaches and the development of client programs. They use program evaluation research data and skills to inform practice and add relevant values and effective skills to the roster of services. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers use clinically informed data and research practices to advocate for program funding, develop program awareness among relevant governmental and non-governmental agencies, and to estimate and anticipate the scope of program benefits. They identify strengths and limitations of evidence-based and best practices for use across multiple populations and systems. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers use practice and research evidence to make recommendations and/or decisions about possible modifications to care plans, programs, or organizational focus. Integrated Practice and Programming 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

Integrated Practice and Programming social workers engage in policy practice by advocating with organizations, communities, and governments for policies and protocols that promote justice, human rights, and anti-oppressive practice. They are aware of how policy impacts many aspects of the lives of individuals, families, groups, and communities, and how social work presence, skills, and values can inform the decision-making process. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers collaborate with key community members to articulate community assets and needs. They critically analyze the relationship among diverse stakeholders and constituencies and the impact these have on social policy. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers identify and work to dismantle the policies and practices that support structural inequalities and their differential effects. They work to build collaborative inter-professional coalitions and teams that also include client and client system representation to develop, advocate for, implement, and evaluate policies across systems. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers understand and leverage their practice skills and experience to inform their work as change advocates. They apply an ecosystems approach to policy as it impacts individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities within integrated, holistic, social work practice and programming. Integrated Practice and Programming 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

Integrated Practice and Programming social workers engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities with an understanding of how engagement across systems is dynamic and must include acknowledging and challenging established programs and policies that have either historically benefited or harmed the clients and communities in which they serve. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers show respect for and understanding of the significance and impact of oppression, discrimination, and poverty on individual, family, and community life when approaching the task of engagement with clients and communities. They employ advanced relational skills as they begin a therapeutic relationship (entry, engagement, discovery). They further understand that personal experiences and affective reactions that impact the relationship of the social worker and client, and between clients and their community and environment, are significant in the process of engagement and maintenance of a professional, healing relationship. This includes acknowledging and addressing multiple aspects of identity and intersectionality and issues of power, race, oppression, and privilege (PROP) that are important to consider in terms of how the work will be understood, approached, and communicated. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers understand how their own positionality, personal experiences, biases, and affective reactions related to the client and environment can impact the effectiveness of providing meaningful service and connection, and they are aware of the need to attend to personal and institutional biases that may impact engagement. Integrated Practice and Programming 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

Integrated Practice and Programming social workers assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities through a strengths-based and person-in-environment conceptual framework that attends to the interplay among capacities, resources, and challenges at the individual, family, group, organization, and community levels. As they assess across levels and systems, they are aware of underlying biases that support individual, structural, and systemic racism and impact the assets available and the needs assessed. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers strive for the ability to identify and separate their personal experiences, affective reactions, biases, and understanding of an individual, family, group, organization, or community and engage in active listening to conduct assessment. They approach assessment positioning themselves as learners and those with whom they work as informants who are the experts about their own lives and situations. They conduct community-based needs and assets assessment to inform program planning, development, and implementation, taking into account key clients' and client systems' cultural and contextual factors. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers are knowledgeable of the range of tools, skills, and practices available to conduct assessment in practice in ways that are responsive as well as contextually sensitive. Integrated Practice and Programming 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

Integrated Practice and Programming social workers intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities utilizing professional practice and inter-organizational collaboration among providers, governmental agencies, and relevant stakeholders. They intervene across levels and systems by identifying commonalities and differences in assessment, formulation, and planned change across systems, and working within these parameters to create beneficial change. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers apply an ecosystems approach to intervention in integrated, holistic social work practice and programming. They understand the reciprocal relationship among case, cause, and function as they emerge in interventions with clients and program implementation and delivery. Of critical importance is their awareness of the historical and current socio-cultural context of practice and programming in areas of social, economic, and environmental justice with populations that have been historically excluded or underserved. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers are aware that interventions should be carefully selected considering all the needs and assets among the clients and communities involved and engaging with compassion, empathy, and sensitivity in the delivery of such interventions. Integrated Practice and Programming 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

Integrated Practice and Programming social workers evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities by using processes, tools, and instruments that can measure progress and evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention, program, policy, or procedure, in a manner that is client-focused and culturally sensitive. They utilize program evaluation to inform practice and add relevant values and effective skills to the roster of services. Advanced Generalist Practice and Programming social workers are capable of using self-reflection, supervision, case consultation, and other approaches to evaluate their work, thus benefitting their professional growth and the people and organizations with and for whom they work. They use program and service evaluation to understand the impact and effectiveness of practice on multiple levels, e.g., differential assessment, asset identification, problem definition, goal setting, intervention, practice monitoring, and evaluation. Integrated Practice and Programming 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: