Concentration Year Field Placement Learning Plan
College of Community and Public Affairs
Department of Social Work
CONTACT INFORMATION
MSW Intern
Agency
Email Address
Phone #
Address
Field Instructor
Agency
Email Address
City
Office #
Address
State
Date
Zip
Office #
Days and Hours of Internship:
City
Task Supervisor
Email Address
Office #
Field Placement Professor
Email Address
Office #
Sophia Resciniti
srescini@binghamton.edu
607-777-9163
State
Zip
Office #
Day and Time of Supervision
Semester:(please circle)
SW 593 OR SW 594
*Advanced Practice Behaviors are in Italic
1. Competency: Ethical & Professional
Behavior
Tasks to address practice behaviors
1. Make ethical decisions by applying the standards of
the NASW Code of Ethics, relevant laws &
regulations, models of ethical decision-making,
ethical conduct of research, and additional codes of
ethics as appropriate to context.
1. Discuss NASW Code of Ethics with Field Instructor; role
of Code in agency
2. Use reflection and self-regulation to manage
personal values and maintain professionalism in
practice situations.
1. Discuss needed areas of growth in supervision & work
on strategies toward growth
2. Attend interagency meetings & in-service presentations
on aspects of ethical service
2. Keep reflective journal log of prof. development &
challenges; discuss in supervision
3. Demonstrate professional demeanor in behavior;
appearance; and oral, written, and electronic
communication.
1.Dress according to agency policy
4. Use technology ethically and appropriately to
facilitate practice outcomes
2. Present to weekly supervision meetings with a list of
topics to discuss
1. Follow agency guidelines to adhere to proper technology
use.
5. Use supervision and consultation to guide
professional judgment and behavior
2.Attend training on social media in social work
1. Attend weekly supervision meetings; prepare topics to
discuss with FI
6. Demonstrate the ability to offer, accept, and
respond to feedback from other professionals in
social work settings and in interdisciplinary settings
2. Consult with agency staff when appropriate to discuss
social work related issues
1. Ask FI for specific feedback on how you are doing each
week in your supervision session.
2.Develop a plan for professional growth in an area
identified by you and your supervisor
7. Recognize the importance of, and demonstrate the
capacity for, self-care in the agency context in
order to facilitate personal social work practice
efficacy and individual well-being throughout their
careers
1. Take time between each session to practice relaxation
techniques.
2.Take breaks as allowed within agency setting
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2. Competency: Diversity & Difference in
Practice
Tasks to Address Practice Behaviors
1. Apply and communicate understanding of the
importance of diversity and difference in shaping
life experiences in practice at the micro, mezzo and
macro levels.
1. Work effectively with diverse populations
2. Present as learners and engage clients and
constituencies as experts of their own experiences
1. Strive to be assigned a diverse caseload of clients
2. Research and apply knowledge related to diversity to
enhance client well-being
2. Work with task supervision of different ethnicity/gender;
explore varying perspectives
3. Apply self-awareness and self-regulation to
manage the influence of personal biases and
values in working with diverse clients and
constituencies.
1. Identify worker and client differences using strengths
perspective
4. Identify and understand the ways in which
individuals from different ethnic, gender, racial,
cultural, sexual identity and orientation, and
socioeconomic backgrounds and with different
abilities require different methods of engagement.
1. Attend workshop, read articles, webinars that focus on
social work approaches and practice skills with diverse
populations.
5. Adapt interventions in culturally responsive ways
that show recognition of issues of intersectionality
at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels
3. Competency: Human Rights and
Social, Economic, & Environmental
Justice
2. Keep reflective journal to record observations of practice,
personal reactions to clients
2. Actively seek input from diverse groups of people to
understand multiple perspectives of issues, concerns, and
strengths.
1.Research culturally responsive interventions that nay be
incorporated into practice
2. Identify aspects of service delivery, organization
functioning, and/or policy mandates that reflect privilege or
assumptions that marginalize or inhibit optimal cultural
perspectives
Tasks to address Practice Behaviors
1. Apply understanding of social, economic, and
environmental justice to advocate for human rights
at the individual and system levels.
1. Advocate for client services at a community event
2. Engage in practices that advance social, economic,
and environmental justice.
1. Attend Advocacy Day; share experience with Field
Instructor and others (if appropriate)
2. Follow a bill promoting civil rights for marginalized group
2.Contact legislators about a current advocacy need
3. Assess how issues of privilege, social injustice, and
inequities in access to services and resources
affect client difficulties and therapeutic alliances
across the micro, mezzo, and macro levels
1. Attend community level meeting to advocate for clients in
community settings in ways that combat injustice.
2. With FI discuss ways in which agency setting reduces or
increases oppression.
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4. Utilize an integrative, anti-oppressive perspective to
promote equitable access to services and
resources for vulnerable groups
4. Competency: Practice Informed
Research and Research-informed
practice
1. Use practice experience and theory to inform
scientific inquiry and research.
1. Keep a journal to critically examine the ways in which
clients may face oppression in multiple systems due to
issues such as their socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity,
gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, as
well as illnesses such as mental health diagnoses, physical
illness or substance use addictions.
2. Identify and actively critique the integrative and antioppressive perspective you have decided to use and that
you will promote in the service of vulnerable groups in our
society.
Tasks to Address Practice Behaviors
1.Read professional journal articles relevant to agency
population
2. Base a research paper on agency best practice
2. Apply critical thinking to engage in analysis of
quantitative and qualitative research methods and
research findings.
1.Discuss peer reviewed articles relevant to a specific
population with your Field Instructor
2.Attend workshop on evidence-based or best practices
relevant to agency population
3. Use and translate research evidence to inform and
improve practice, policy, and service delivery.
1.Identify research related to agency target population;
review findings with Field Instructor
2. Assess use of current research based practice and its
effectiveness with client(s)
1. Adapt and modify research methodology to the
social work setting, with consideration for changes
in the client’s concerns and in the environment
1. Identify current data collection methods available in the
field work placement, review their validity, and provide
insights and feedback to FI and agency staff.
2. Conduct practice in a recursive manner that
includes constant assessment while implementing
interventions in social work settings
2. Identify an opportunity to conduct a program evaluation
and develop a plan to conduct the evaluation. .
1.In supervision, examine worker-client interactions to
ensure that client’s feedback/reaction are incorporated into
ongoing and subsequent interventions
2.When working with client, be sure to use both deductive
(finding from outside research) and inductive (reflective
practitioner) knowledge sources
5. Competency: Policy Practice
Tasks to Address Practice Behaviors
1. Identify social policy at the local, state, and federal
level that impacts well-being, service delivery, and
access to social services.
1.Discuss local, state and federal policies and their impact
on clients with Field Instructor
2.Identify relevant policies and their applications to agency
population
2. Assess how social welfare and economic policies
impact the delivery of and access to social
services.
1.Research how a specific policy impacts social work
service delivery
2.Sit on macro or agency policy creating committee
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3. Apply critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and
advocate for policies that advance human rights
and social, economic and environmental justice.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of the ways in which
agency dynamics and larger systemic and
environmental factors may impact issue resolution,
both positively and negatively
5. Identify avenues for intervention in the policymaking process in order to advocate for clients and
constituencies at all levels of service delivery
1. Participate in community advocacy event
2. Attend Advocacy Day and meet with legislators regarding
policy issues
1. Take notes on agency dynamics over a month’s period.
Discuss in supervision what impact they have on the work
with clients.
2. Research and present to your supervisor and/or other
staff what new or proposed policy will affect the clients
which the agency serves.
1. Attend a public hearing at a city council meeting
2.Write a letter to a public official (state legislator or federal
legislator) advocating for a particular policy, or to make
them aware of policy issues, affecting clients and
constituents
6. Competency: Engage with Individuals,
Families, Groups, Organizations and
Communities.
Tasks to Address Practice Behaviors
1. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social
environment, person-in-environment, and other
multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks to engage
with clients and constituencies.
1. Discuss with field Instructor specific theories and their
merit with agency populations.
2. Use empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to
effectively engage diverse clients and
constituencies.
1. Identify areas of comfort & discomfort in client
engagement & discuss with Field Instructor
2. Complete a process recording focusing on an intake
assessment.
2. Participate in a client intake interview
3. Apply a trauma-informed care perspective when
working with clients, colleagues and constituencies
in order to facilitate appropriate recognition of and
response to the experiences and effects of trauma
at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
4. Use the client-social worker relationship and other
professional connections to facilitate attainment of
client goals
7. Competency: Assess Individuals,
Families, groups, Organizations and
Communities
1. Collect and organize data, and apply critical
thinking to interpret information from clients and
constituencies.
2. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social
environment, person-in-environment, and other
multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the
analysis of assessment data from clients and
constituencies.
1. Discuss with client the definition of trauma-informed care
2. Complete an initial safety plan with a client.
1. Complete a professional ecomap with clients to identify
available professional resources and helpful in goal
attainment.
2. Ask for regular feedback from clients as to whether they
are benefiting from services.
Tasks to Address Practice Behaviors
1. Observe client assessment and offer to write, organize
and interpret data
2. Do a family genogram and ecomap as part of an
assessment
1. Discuss intake assessment with Field Instructor and/or
other team members to develop a treatment plan.
2.participate in an interdisciplinary team conference
regarding a client
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3. Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and
objectives based on the critical assessment of
strengths, needs, and challenges within clients and
constituencies.
4. Select appropriate intervention strategies based on
the assessment, research knowledge, and values
and preferences of clients and constituencies.
5. Identify, evaluate, select, adopt, and modify
assessment tools, methods, and approaches in
advanced practice with consideration for the needs,
backgrounds, and social characteristics of clients
and constituencies
6. Demonstrate the ability to develop and explain a
comprehensive assessment with consideration of
theoretical models, practice experiences, and
research findings
1.Participate in appropriate goal setting with client
2. Develop a written assessment of client that includes
client’s strengths & weakness
3. Continually review goals and objectives with client to
monitor progress
1. Discuss topic of intervention strategies with Field
Instructor
2. Built caseload of clients & monitor progress toward
meeting goals
1. Modify assessment tools by comparing characteristics of
population used to develop it and population of current
practice
2. Discuss with FI challenges in utilizing assessment tools
and develop strategies to address them.
1.Discuss in supervision the strengths and limitations of
theoretical model used in comprehensive assessment;
explain comprehensive assessment results to clients in
plain language
2. In a session, share assessment with client(s) as
appropriate in the collaborative development of a
comprehensive care plan or intervention.
8. Competency: Intervene with
Individuals, Families, groups,
Organizations and Communities
Tasks to Address Practice Behaviors
1. Critically choose and implement interventions to
achieve practice goals and enhance capacities of
clients and constituencies.
1. Lead a support group or psycho-education group
2. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social
environment, person-in-environment, and other
multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in
interventions with clients and constituencies.
1. Use best or evidence based intervention with a client in
accordance with agency policy.
3. Use inter-professional collaboration as appropriate
to achieve beneficial practice outcomes
1.Use supervision with Field Instructor for consultation
4. Negotiate, mediate, and advocate with and on
behalf of diverse clients and constituencies
2. Develop a mutually agreed-upon focus of work and case
plan with client
2. Discuss underlying HBSE theories in context of standard
agency interventions with clients.
2.Advocate for client needs with other agency professionals
1. Identify & connect client to community resources to
assist in recovery process
2. Maintain communication & follow up with client (when
appropriate) to determine client outcomes and potential
success
5. Facilitate effective transitions and endings that
advance mutually agreed-on goals.
1. Review client progress through termination phase;
prepare client for final sessions/meetings
2. Follow up with client (as appropriate) to determine
sustained recovery efforts and success related to
determined goals
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6. Demonstrate ability to critically assess and apply
appropriate models of practice in response to
clients’ unique circumstances and needs
7. Design an intervention strategy based upon
assessment data at multiple system levels
1. Discuss in supervision rationale for selection of practice
models.
2. Adapt selection of practice model to results of
comprehensive assessment, taking into consideration
client(s) personality characteristics and preference.
1. Review or complete a bio/psycho/spiritual assessment
with an individual and create client centered therapeutic
goals and interventions for treatment based on the
assessment.
2. Attend and observe a staff meeting or committee
meeting within the agency. Or attend a collation meeting
that the agency is a part of. Take note of a struggle that the
agency / committee.
9. Competency: Evaluate Practice with
Individuals, Families, Groups,
Organizations, and Communities
Tasks to Address Practice Behaviors
1. Select and use appropriate methods for evaluation
of outcomes
1.Use supervision with Field Instructor to discuss
appropriate evaluation techniques
2. Explore relevant journal articles to determine if
evaluations are appropriate.
2. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social
environment, person-in-environment, and other
multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks in the
evaluation of outcomes
1.Refer to relevant human behavior and the social
environment theories in discussion of evaluation with your
field instructor
2.Prepare a report based on outcomes to share with field
instructor and agency
3. Critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate
intervention and program processes and outcomes
1.Evaluate assessments/data collection & intervention
practices during supervision
2. Review client file(s) to determine progress toward agreed
upon goals between client & intern
4. Apply evaluation findings to improve practice
effectiveness at the micro, mezzo, and macro
levels
5. Use appropriate tools and technology ethically to
facilitate accurate data management, both in the
evaluation of ongoing work and in the evaluation of
outcomes of work
1.Prepare poster or report to share with agency
6. Use self-reflection and supervision to regularly
evaluate and, if necessary, modify practice
1. Keep weekly journal to track reflections/reactions to
practice.
2. Host workshop to share recommendations.
1. Develop or adopt a tool that you use to track client
progress.
2. Explore existing technological tools (apps, software) that
could be used to track and analyze service outcomes.
2.Bring weekly journal to supervision for FIs feedback
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