Concentration Level Curriculum
COMPETENCY
PRACTICE BEHAVIOUR
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Identify as a professional social worker and 
conduct oneself accordingly
Attend to professional roles and boundaries
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Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior,
appearance, and communication
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Use supervision and consultation
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Recognize and manage personal values in a way that
allows professional values to guide practice;
Apply social work ethical principles to guide
professional practice
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Make ethical decisions by applying standards of the
NASW Code of Ethics within a Family Health
perspective
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Tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical conflicts
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Apply strategies of ethical reasoning to arrive at
principled decisions
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Distinguish, appraise, and integrate multiple sources of
knowledge, including research-based knowledge, and
practice wisdom within a Family Health Perspective
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Analyze models of assessment, prevention, intervention
and evaluation within a Family Health Perspective
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Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in
working with individuals, families, groups, organizations,
communities and colleagues within a Family Health
Perspective
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Recognize the extent to which a culture’s structures and
values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or
enhance privilege and power within a Family Health
Perspective
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Gain sufficient self-awareness to eliminate the influence
of personal biases and values in working with diverse
groups
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Recognize and communicate their understanding of the
importance of differences in shaping life experiences
within a Family Health Perspective
Apply critical thinking to inform and
communicate professional judgments
Engage diversity and difference in practice
Practice personal reflection and self-correction for
professional development
COMPETENCY
PRACTICE BEHAVIOUR
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View themselves as learners and engage those with whom
they work as informants
Advance human rights and social and economic
 Understand and be able to articulate the forms and
justice
mechanisms of oppression and discrimination from a
Family Health Perspective
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Advocate for human rights and soc/econ justice from a
Family Health Perspective
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Engage in practices that advance social and economic
justice from a Family Health Perspective
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Use practice experiences to inform scientific inquiry
Engage in research-informed practice and
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practice-informed research
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Use research evidence to inform practice within a Family
Health Perspective
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Utilize conceptual frameworks to guide the processes of
assessment, intervention and evaluation within a Family
Health Perspective
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Critique and apply knowledge to understand person and
environment within a Family Health Perspective
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Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that
advance social well-being within a Family Health
Perspective
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Collaborate with colleagues and clients for effective
policy action within a Family Health Perspective
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Discover, appraise, and attend to changing contexts to
provide relevant services within a Family Health
Perspective
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Provide leadership in promoting changes in service
delivery and practice to improve service quality within a
Family Health Perspective
Apply knowledge of human behavior and the
social environment
Engage in policy practice to advance soc and
econ well-being and deliver effective social
work services
Respond to contexts that shape practice
Develop and apply scientific methods to social research
and evaluation activities within a Family Health
Perspective
COMPETENCY
PRACTICE BEHAVIOUR
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Substantively and effectively prepare for action with
individuals, families, groups, organizations, and
communities within a Family Health Perspective
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Use empathy and other interpersonal skills within a
Family Health Perspective
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Develop a mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired
outcomes within a Family Health Perspective
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Collect, organize, and interpret client data within a
Family Health Perspective
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Assess client strengths and limitations within a Family
Health Perspective
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Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and
objectives within a Family Health Perspective
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Select appropriate intervention strategies within a Family
Health Perspective
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Initiate actions to achieve organizational goals within a
Family Health Perspective
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Implement prevention interventions that enhance client
capacities within a Family Health Perspective
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Help clients resolve problems within a Family Health
Perspective
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Negotiate, mediate, and advocate for clients within a
Family Health Perspective
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Facilitate transitions and endings
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Critically analyze, monitor and evaluate interventions
within a Family Health Perspective
Engage, assess, intervene, & evaluate with
individuals, families, groups, organizations, &
communities