Bridgewater State University School of Social Work
Learning Contract: MSW Advanced Year
Student’s Name:
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Semester: Fall
Core Competencies
EP2.2.1: Identify as a social worker and
conduct oneself accordingly
2.1.1a Understand and identify
professional strengths, limitations, and
challenges
2.1.1b Demonstrate the professional
use of self and professional conduct
2.1.1c Develop, manage, and maintain
professional relationships with clients
and within client systems
Competence 2.1.2 – Apply social work
ethical principles to guide professional
practice.
2.1.2a Identifies ethical dilemmas and
use of independent and sophisticated
strategies for resolution
2.1.2b Identifies and manages
personal biases that affect social work
practice
2.1.2c Employs strategies of ethical
reasoning to address the use of
technology in social work practice and
its impact on client rights
2.1.2d Identifies and uses knowledge
of relationship dynamics, including
boundaries, power and privilege
differentials.
Date of Submission:
Spring
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Student Learning Activities
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Competence 2.1.3—Apply critical
thinking to inform and communicate
professional judgments.
2.1.3a Engages in creative, reflective
practice
2.1.3b Critically examines, evaluates,
and selects culturally appropriate,
multidimensional assessment and
practice approaches
2.1.3c Effectively and appropriately
communicates professional judgments
in varied settings.
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Competence 2.1.4—Engage diversity
and difference in practice.
2.1.4a Uses knowledge of how issues
of diversity impact identity formation
to critically assess the approaches to
intervention
2.1.4b Identifies and employs
approaches to reduce and eliminate the
impact of inequitable power and
privilege on interpersonal relationships
and societal structures
2.1.4c Engages in and promotes
dialogue across differences within
client, agency and community systems
regarding oppression, poverty,
marginalization, and alienation as well
as privilege and power.
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Competence 2.1.5—Advance human
rights and social and economic justice.
2.1.5a Recognizes and uses knowledge
of the current and historical effects of
oppression, discrimination, stigma and
trauma on client and client systems
2.1.5b Advocates at multiple levels for
policies and practice that promote the
highest level of health and mental
health services
2.1.5c Demonstrate leadership to
work in collaboration with clients and
stakeholders to achieve maximum level
of social and economic justice and
human rights within organizations,
institutions, and society.
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Competence 2.1.6—Engage in research
informed practice and practice
informed research.
2.1.6a Uses evidence-based practice
to assess, design, and implement
culturally congruent interventions with
clients and client systems
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Competence 2.1.7—Apply knowledge
of human behavior and the social
environment.
2.1.7a Employs the bio-psycho-socialspiritual approach, using theory and
diagnostic classification in a
comprehensive, culturally competent
formulation
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Competence 2.1.8—Engage in policy
practice to advance social and
economic wellbeing and to deliver
effective social work services.
2.1.8a Demonstrates skill in
identifying and communicating the
impact of social conditions and policies
on clients and stakeholders
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Competence 2.1.9—Respond to
contexts that shape practice..
2.1.9a Demonstrates knowledge
about how relational, organizational,
and community systems may impact
clients
2.1.9b Provides leadership in
influencing and promoting positive
change in service delivery and practice.
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Competence 2.1.10(a)–(d)—Engage,
assess, intervene, and evaluate with
individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and communities.
2.1.10(a) - Engagement
2.1.10(a)a
Develops a culturally
responsive social work relationship with
clients and client systems
2.1.10(a)b
Engages clients and
client systems as equal participants in
the establishment of intervention goals
and expected outcomes
2.1.10(a)c
Differentially applies
techniques of engagement to varied
populations of clients and client
systems.
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Competence 2.1.10(a)–(d)—Engage,
assess, intervene, and evaluate with
individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and communities.
2.1.10 (b) Assessment – With all client
levels
2.1.10(b)a
Uses multidimensional
bio-psycho-social-spiritual assessment
tools
2.1.10(b)b
Uses ongoing clinical
assessment to select and modify
appropriate intervention strategies as
needed.
Competence 2.1.10(a)–(d)—Engage,
assess, intervene, and evaluate with
individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and communities.
2.1.10(c) Intervention
2.1.10(c)a
Critically evaluates,
selects and applies culturally congruent
and evidence-based practice
interventions, with an increasingly
advanced level of autonomy
2.1.10(c)b
Collaborates and
consults with other professional and
client systems to coordinate
interventions.
Competence 2.1.10(a)–(d)—Engage,
assess, intervene, and evaluate with
individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and communities.
2.1.10(d) Evaluation
2.1.10(d)a
Identifies gaps in the
professional literature and hone the
skills to create new knowledge
2.1.10(d)b
Identifies and utilize
multiple tools and approaches in the
assessment of interventions
2.1.10(d)c
Assess processes and
outcomes to evaluate effectiveness
2.1.10(d)d
Evaluates and modifies
intervention strategies based on
continuous evaluation.
Student Signature
Revision date 9/2012
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Field Supervisor Signature
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Field Liaison Signature
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