Faculty of Social Work
Final Field Placement
Learning Outcomes – Activities and Tasks
SWRK 4120
SWRK 4120 Learning Outcomes
Mid-Term and Final Term
Learning outcomes refer to what a student is expected to possess and demonstrate
during his or her course instruction. Specific learning objectives are identified in the
field evaluation completed at mid-term and final term. In order to provide specific
measurement outcomes, the following series of tasks have been identified to guide and
assess students in their demonstrated learning. These tasks also serve to support the
development of essential skills and attributes required for the study of social work in
areas of communication, ethical and professional behavior, cognition, critical thinking,
as well as assessment, intervention and evaluation. As a result of participating in final
field placement, SWRK 4120, a student will be able to respond to the following, in
formal supervision with field instructor or in reflective journals:
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Professionalism and Ethical Standards
As you move forward in final field, you are expected to
strengthen your knowledge and skills as a beginning professional.
Assess your own social work skills and knowledge and describe 34 areas in which you have demonstrated growth and
development this term.
Describe the mandate of your placement agency. Identify and
describe 3 examples of how you have carried out the agency’s
mandate.
Reflect upon how your documentation skills in practice have
evolved from first field to current placement. Describe the
methods you have taken to ensure that your documentation is
respectful and unbiased.
Explain the meaning of professional boundaries. Provide an
example of how you have purposefully developed and
maintained professional boundaries.
Identify and discuss with your field instructor a practice situation
which has presented some ethical challenges. Describe how this
relates to your own values and the Code of Ethics. Identify how
you resolved this ethical dilemma.
Explain the meaning of the right to self-determination in social
work practice. Are there situations in which the right to selfdetermination should be limited? Please explain.
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Assessment and Intervention Skills in Practice
Assess your own interpersonal communication skills. Identify
how these skills have further developed from the point of first
field placement to current year. Identify the interpersonal
communication skills that you would like to improve and
strengthen in the future. Identify the steps you plan to take in
order to promote and strengthen these skills?
Identify 2-3 social work skills you have effectively used in working
with an involuntary or challenging client.
Identify 3-4 of the skills you have used in preparing for and
conducting interviews with clients and collaterals.
Describe two examples of how you have intervened with regard
to a client’s goals or concerns. Explain the purpose and outcome
of this intervention.
With reference to two different situations, provide examples of
how you have integrated theoretical frameworks into practice.
Specify how these frameworks have influenced the assessment or
intervention plan in each situation.
Specify the methods you have you used to assist clients in
building greater social supports? Identify what has been most
effective in your approach. Identify 2-3 challenges you have
encountered when working with clients in strengthening their
social networks?
Describe a client situation in which you have had to address a lack
of progress toward goals and to modify accordingly. Describe
how you prepared for this meeting and what was the outcome?
Identify the systems and the type of disciplines you have worked
with during your final field. Describe what the other
systems/disciplines offer in terms of perspective. Identify 2-3
challenges you have faced in working with other systems.
Reflective Capacity and Critical Analysis
1. Consider your own personal history and experiences associated
with ethnicity, age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation,
socio-economic status, or abilities. Describe how these
experiences impact upon your practice.
2. Describe a specific example of how you have applied both the
critical and constructive feedback, received from your field
instructor, in your social work practice.
3. In a final field, it is expected that students assume greater
independence in professional judgment and decision-making.
Describe how you have demonstrated this in your final field
placement.
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4. Describe an ethical dilemma you have experienced in your
current practice. Identify the steps you took to address this with
your field instructor and describe the outcome of this situation.
5. In the context of your current placement, critically evaluate your
own practice. Identify what steps you have taken and/or are
prepared to take in order to strengthen specific skills and
knowledge.
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Fostering and Promoting of Human Rights and Social Justice
Identify and explain how issues of inequality impact your clients.
Describe the actions you have taken to address these issues and
to serve your clients more effectively.
Identify the strategies you have used to empower clients in your
social work practice. Provide an example which details how you
have attempted to “empower” others and the outcome of this
approach. Identify 3-4 barriers that clients have faced in an
attempt to advocate for themselves.
Social Work is a human rights profession. Explain why you agree
or disagree with this statement.
Define cultural competence in social work practice. What specific
measures have you taken to enhance your cultural competence in
practice?
Describe a casework situation and identify the following: (a)
steps you have taken to promote a safe environment for a client;
and (b) steps you have taken to contribute to a healthy and/or
safe work environment in your field agency.
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Integration of Policy and Practice
1. Identify the social policies of relevance within your field setting.
Describe the following: (a) how this defines the responsibilities of
the agency as a whole; and (b) how this impacts the roles and
responsibilities of social work within the community.
2. Identify one of the most critical social issues impacting the clients
you serve. Identify and describe how specific social policies help
to support and/or hinder clients’ progress.
3. Summarize the research you have been involved in, directly or
indirectly, within your field setting. Respond to the following: (a)
Provide three reasons why research is an essential tool for
creating knowledge and strengthening practice; and (b) Evaluate
your own practice with individuals, agencies and/or communities,
including future goals for development.
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4. Identify 3 provincial or federal social welfare programs and
describe the strengths and limitations of each. Provide at least
one example of the steps you have taken to assist a client to
navigate a specific program.
5. Identify how information gathered from a community needs
assessment or community asset mapping process has been used
(or could be used) to impact practice decisions and actions.
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