Winthrop University
Department of Social Work
Learning Contract: Advanced Practice Behaviors SCWK 622 & 632
Student Name:
Agency:
Field Instructor Name:
Contract Term: Fall 20
to Spring 20
INSTRUCTIONS: Student learning competencies have been outlined below based on the 2008 Council on Social Work Education’s
Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards, and the Department of Social Work’s advanced practice concentration of Empowerment
Practice. Students (in consultation with their field instructors) are to establish learning activities to be completed in the field that will help
them demonstrate these advanced practice behaviors and achieve these competencies. At the mid-term and end of the semester, students
will be evaluated by the agency field instructor on their learning and performance. Therefore, the learning contract developed should be
specific enough to provide students with a clear overview of learning goals. Complete in triplicate for student, Field Instructor and Field
Director.
Competency
2.1.1 - Identify as a
professional social worker and
conduct oneself accordingly.
2.1.2 - Apply social work
ethical principles to guide
professional practice.
Practice Behaviors
 Identify opportunities for
advanced social work
involvement in empowermentbased practice across systems.
 Work collaboratively across
disciplines to provide
empowerment practice services
while maintaining one’s
professional identity and role
responsibilities.
 Incorporate empowerment
perspectives - including
attention to personal,
structural, and societal
systems of power - in
Tasks/Activities
Target Dates
By the end of
SCWK 622.
By the end of
SCWK 622.
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Competency
2.1.3 - Apply critical thinking
to inform and communicate
professional judgments.
2.1.4 - Engage diversity and
difference in practice.
2.1.5 - Advance human rights
and social and economic
justice.
Practice Behaviors
Tasks/Activities
applying ethical decisionmaking skills.
 Integrate the values and
principles of ethical social
work practice, including the
ability to independently
assess and resolve ethical
dilemmas consistent with the
NASW Code of Ethics.
 Analyze and select models of
assessment, prevention,
intervention, and evaluation
relative to an empowerment
practice perspective.
 Communicate effectively
with diverse populations and
with multi- or
interdisciplinary systems.
 Select and apply strategies that
promote empowerment in
addressing inequalities shaped by
cultural structures, institutional
systems, and societal values.
 Analyze and compare different
social constructions of privilege,
oppression, and empowerment
and their implications.
 Recognize, analyze, and address
the interconnections of
oppression and discrimination
and use social change and
Target Dates
By the end of
SCWK 622.
By the end of
SCWK 632.
By the end of
SCWK 622.
By the end of
SCWK 632.
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Competency
2.1.6 - Engage in researchinformed practice and
practice-informed research.
2.1.7 - Apply knowledge of
human behavior and the social
environment (HBSE).
Practice Behaviors
leadership skills to promote
human and civil rights.
 Select and apply integrated,
empowerment practice
approaches to service delivery
that are equitable and respectful
of human rights and social and
economic justice.
 Select and apply evidence-based
theories and methods consistent
with empowerment practice.
 Work collaboratively with
community-based systems to
assess intervention effectiveness.
 Demonstrate advanced
knowledge of theories of
human behavior and the
social environment across a
range of social systems
(individuals and families,
groups, organizations and
communities).
 Select and apply
empowerment practice
strategies for assisting clients
in responding to human and
social problems.
Tasks/Activities
Target Dates
By the end of
SCWK 632.
By the end of
SCWK 622.
By the end of
SCWK 632.
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Competency
2.1.8 - Engage in policy
practice to advance social and
economic well-being and to
deliver effective social work
services.
2.1.9 - Respond to contexts
that shape practice.
2.1.10 - Engage, assess,
intervene, and evaluate with
individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and
communities
Practice Behaviors
 Apply empowerment-based
policy practice skills across
systems to influence and
facilitate effective social
services that promote human
rights and advance social
and economic justice.
 Distinguish, appraise, and
integrate multiple sources of
knowledge, empirical
evidence, and practice
wisdom to understand and
respond to a wide range of
changing contexts that shape
empowerment practice.
 Select and apply leadership
skills for anticipating and
influencing shifting contexts
of practice across systems
 Actively engage in the
supervision process.
Engagement
 Engage diverse groups in
empowerment practice
across an array of systems
and levels of intervention.
Assessment
 Adapt, modify, and use
empowerment practice
assessment tools.
Tasks/Activities
Target Dates
By the end of
SCWK 632.
By the end of
SCWK 632.
By the end of
SCWK 622.
By the end of
SCWK 622.
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Competency
Practice Behaviors
Intervention
 Employ integrated
empowerment practice
theories and methods for
intervening across systems.
Evaluation
 Apply research skills to
evaluating empowerment
practice interventions.
 Identify and use evaluation
tools for empowerment
practice.
 Communicate and
disseminate evaluation
results appropriate to the
intended audience.
 Work collaboratively with
evaluators/researchers to
assess intervention
effectiveness.
Tasks/Activities
Target Dates
By the end of
SCWK 632.
By the end of
SCWK 632.
As part of the Learning Contract, please specify your field work schedule (days and hours you plan to attend field):
Student Signature and Date:
Field Instructor Signature and Date:
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