Undergraduate Field Orientation
Part II
Congratulations!
Timothy
McCarragher
School Director
Naomi White
Field Coordinator
Becky Thomas
UA Lakewood
MSW Coordinator
Lisa Crites
Wayne College
BA/BASW
Coordinator
First Things First
• Sign in
• Confirm accuracy of name & email address
• Confirm correct semester to begin your
field education experience
• Pick-up Student Packet
• Review power point presentation
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Orientation Objectives
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Effectively & affectively prepare our students
to enter field education- the signature
pedagogy of the social work profession
Orientation Objectives
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Assist our students in shifting
perspectives from knowledge
acquisition to knowledge integration
with skill-building opportunities
Orientation Objectives
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Describe the underpinnings of
field education documentation
4. Increase familiarity of field
education forms
Orientation Objectives
5. Increase familiarity with
field resources:
– Web-site
– On-site Field Area
– Social Work Team
Field Education Structure
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Two (2) Consecutive Semesters
Final 2 semesters prior to graduation
Same agency both semesters
225 hours – each semester
450 hours both semesters
Fall/Spring -15 hours per week/15 weeks
Summer 22.5 hours per week/ 10 weeks
Seminar Courses
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Field Education Structure
Field Placement =
• 7750:493 Social Agency I- First semester
• 7750:494 Social Agency II- Second
semester
• 3 credit hours for field per semester
• 6 credit hours for both semesters
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Field Education Structure
Hybrid Seminar Courses
Field Seminar =
• 421 Introduction to Field Experience
Seminar- First Semester BSW student
• 422 Field Experience Seminar II- Second
Semester BSW Student
• 2 credits each course
• 4 credit hours for both semesters
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Field Education Terminology
 Field = Practicum= Internship=Clinical
 Field Coordinator (university-based)
 Field Instructor (agency-based)
 Field Faculty Liaison (university-based)
 Field Seminar (a course) (universitybased)
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Why Field Education?
• Application of theory into the ‘real’ world
• An opportunity to ‘see’ course work in
action
• An opportunity to ‘learn’ in a structured
environment
• An opportunity to become……comfortable
in the role of a professional social worker
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Precept of social work education
• Two interrelated components of
curriculum-classroom & field are of equal
importance within the curriculum
• Each contributes to the development of the
requisite competencies of professional
practice
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Field Education
• is designed, supervised, coordinated, and
evaluated based on criteria by which
students demonstrate the achievement of
program competencies.
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15 Practice Areas- CSWE*
Council on Social Work Education
 Aging/Gerontology
 Alcohol, Drug, or
Substance Abuse
 Child Welfare
 Community Planning
 Criminal/Juvenile
Justice and
Corrections
 Developmental
Disabilities
 Domestic
Violence/Crisis
Intervention
 Family Services
 Group Services
 Health/Community
Health & Hospice
 Housing Services
 International
 Mental
Health/Community
Health
 Occupational
 Rehabilitation
 School Social Work
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Specialty Practice Sections- NASW*
National Association of Social Workers
• Health
• Aging
• Alcohol, Tobacco &
Other Drugs
• Children,
Adolescents &
Young Adults
• Child Welfare
• Mental health
• School Social Work
• Social & Economic
Justice & Peace
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Field Agency Sites:
• Community Mental
Health
• Hospitals
• Residential
Treatment Centers
• Group Homes
• Health Clinics
• Recovery Centers
• Battered Women’s
Shelters
• Animal Sanctuary
• Elderly Settings
• Schools
• Police DepartmentYouth Services
• Community Centers
• Social Services –
infant –elderly
• Crisis Intervention
• Child Welfare
• Work settings
• Juvenile Justice
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Wide angle view of Social Work
• Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) –
social work education’s accrediting body
• National Association of Social Workers
(NASW) – social work’s professional
organization
• Counselor, Social Work & Marriage & Family
Therapist Board (CSWMFT) – state of Ohio's
licensing board
Field Education Structure
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• Weekly one hour of face to face Supervisory
Session
• Written Student Integrative Learning
Contract- per academic year
• Student Evaluation-per semester
• 3 credit hours per semester/6 credit hours
total academic year
Field Education at Place of Employment
FAPE-Field at Place of Employment
Identical requirements as if you, the student
do not work at the site
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Student Integrative Learning Contract
Student Evaluation
450 clock hours
Two consecutive semesters
Information for Part II
Student Integrative Learning Contract
• Direct Practice
• Service Impact
• Professional Learning
Student Evaluation
Time/Task Logs
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You are so close to your goal- we are with
you.
https://www.uakron.edu/socialwork/fieldeducation/basw-info-forms.dot
www.uakron.edu/socialwork/
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