MSW
FIELD SUPERVISOR’S HANDBOOK

©2005 Monmouth University School of Social Work

West Long Branch, New Jersey07764

August 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT MONMOUTHUNIVERSITY.3

Program History...... 3

Location and University History.....5

Program Mission, Goals, and Objectives ....7

Program Goals ...... 9

Overarching ...... 11

Foundation Curriculum Objectives .... 12

Clinical Practice with Families and Children Concentration

Curriculum Objectives..... 13

International and Community Development Concentration

Curriculum Objectives..... 14

Nondiscrimination Statement...... 15

Social Work Faculty...... 15

Curriculum Plan & Degree Requirements.... 18

Regular Admit Curriculum Worksheet .... 20

Advanced Standing Curriculum Worksheet .... 21

Overview of Recommended Course Sequences... 23

Definitions of Practice Areas ...... 25

Generalist Social Work Practice (Foundation Year).. 25

Clinical Practice with Families and Children

(Concentration Year)... .. 26

International and Community Development

(Concentration Year)..... 27

Themes Underlying the MSW Curriculum.... 29

The Liberal Arts Perspective in the MSW Curriculum .. 30

Concentration Curriculum...... 31

Clinical Practice with Families and Children Concentration. 31

International and Community Development Concentration. 34

International Field Placement ... 37

REQUIREMENTS OF FIELD PRACTICUM.... 39

Field Objectives ...... 40

Objectives of Specific Field Programs .... 42

Generalist Practice ...... 42

Advanced Practice...... 43

Procedures and Policies of Field Practicum ... . 45

Professional Ethics..... 45

Assignment to the Field Agency... 45

Change of Practicum..... 46

Work/Study ...... 47

Life and Work Experience Credit ... 48

Use of Personal Vehicle in Field ... 48

Curriculum Design for the Field Practicum.. 48

Evaluation Criteria for Student Performance.. 50

Criteria for the Selection of Field Agencies.. 51

Agreements Between the Field Sites

and the University.... 51

Field Supervisorswithout a Professional

Social Work Degree.... 53

Admission to the Field Practicum... 53

Personal Characteristics.... 54

APPENDIX

AFACULTY VITAE..... 57

B MSW FIELD PRACTICUM APPLICATION. 61

CFIELD PRACTICUM RESPONSIBILITIES.. 75

D ATTENDANCE REPORT... 81

ESUGGESTED CONTRACT FOR FIELD WORK. 85

FMSW EVALUATION FORMS... 89

First Year – 1st Semester (SW 510).. 91

First Year – 2nd Semester (SW 520).. 99

Second Year – CPFC – 1st Semester (SW630) 107

Second Year – ICD – 1st Semester (SW631). 117

Second Year – CPFC – 2nd Semester (SW640) 127

Second Year – ICD – 2nd Semester (SW641). 137

GAFFILIATION AGREEMENT... 149

HUNITED NATIONALS DECLARATION

OF HUMAN RIGHTS.... 155

INATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL

WORKERS CODE OF ETHICS ... 165

JTHE ETHICS OF SOCIAL WORK

PRINCIPLES AND STANDARDS

International Federation

of Social Workers... 193

KSTUDENT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

AND MONITORING COMMITTEE. 205
SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT MONMOUTHUNIVERSITY

Program History

Social Work as an undergraduate major was introduced at MonmouthUniversity in 1968. The Social Work Program was established in response to diverse needs with a common theme: a growing awareness of an economy of human welfare. This was represented by an ever-increasing demand within the social work community for efficient and accountable uses of resources.

The Social Work Program has grown to meet the changing demands of its student body and of the social welfare system by providing a curriculum of expanded breadth and quality. The Social Work Program now encompasses both a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work.

The BSW Program began with the hiring of a part-time faculty member in 1968, and was committed to seeking recognition as a Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accredited program with the hiring of a full-time faculty member in September 1973. A second full-time Social Work faculty member was hired in September 1975. Faculty were hired to bring complementary skills to teaching, with one member hired primarily to teach courses in the practice sequence including field work coordination; and the other faculty member to teach in the social welfare policy, planning and research courses. Initial accreditation occurred for the BSW Program in 1975. Since that time, the BSW Program was re-accredited in Academic Year (AY) 83-84, a second time in AY 90-91 a third time in AY 98-99 and again in AY 06-07. The MSW Program received initial accreditation in 2001 (retroactive to the first graduating class of 2000), and is currently fully accredited in both the BSW and MSW Programs for AY 06/07.

In 1995 a third full-time faculty member was added to the BSW Program, and at this time the Social Work Program became an independent department and developed a full night program in addition to its already existing daytime program. Continuing to grow, a fourth full-time faculty member was added to the Department in 1996. In the fall of 1997 a fifth full-time faculty member was added to develop the Master of Social Work curriculum. During AY 1997-98, the Department of Social Work received notice that the MSW Program was accepted into candidacy for accreditation by CSWE. The fall semester of 1998 saw the first MSW class enrolled in the Program, along with the addition of two full-time faculty members, bringing the total number of faculty in the Department to seven. In the fall of 1999, three additional faculty were added, bringing the total to ten full-time faculty, and a full-time Coordinator of Field Placement. In the fall of 2000 two additional full-time faculty members were added, bringing the total in the Department to twelve full-time faculty, a full-time administrator (Director of Field & Professional Education) and two office coordinators. In June of 2001, the Department received full accreditation from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). An additional part- time administrator (Coordinator of Field & Professional Education) and a part-time receptionist were added in the spring of 2002. In July of 2008 the Department of Social Work became the School of Social Work.

The Social Work Program at Monmouth University has been designed to provide an understanding of human rights, human diversity and society as well as prepare students for careers in social work. In the spring of 2006 the department received full reaccreditation for the combined BSW/MSW programs for the full eight year cycle.

Location and University History

MonmouthUniversity is a private, comprehensive institution of learning committed to preparing students for responsible citizenship in a complex world. MonmouthUniversity is a nonsectarian coeducational institution located in West Long Branch, New Jersey. MonmouthUniversity is a senior college offering Bachelor's and Master's degrees. It is fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

The University is located fifty-five miles from New York and eighty miles from Philadelphia. MonmouthCollege was established in 1933, one of the six experimental institutions established in New Jersey as part of the social movement accompanying the Great Depression. Its initial goal was to provide higher educational opportunities for people in the “shore area” who might not otherwise go to college. The University, today, continues to serve residents of New Jersey, especially those living in Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex and MercerCounties. Most students are from New Jersey; however, 19 states and 35 nations are also represented. The student body as of fall 2004 was comprised of 4,034 full-time undergraduates, and part-time and graduate students bring the total enrollment to more than 6,329. Approximately 1,600 undergraduates live on campus in ten residence halls and three garden-style apartment complexes. Nearly half of those students who do not reside on campus live in off-campus apartments. The remainder of the population consists of traditional commuters.

MonmouthUniversity has progressed a long way from its founding as a two-year institution in 1933. It acquired its present 125-acre campus in 1956; the year after, it initiated its baccalaureate curricula, and 10 years later was empowered to offer graduate programs. From a campus with one major all-purpose facility, Woodrow Wilson Hall, the University has evolved into a community with 55 buildings with a total of 155.61 acres. The University has over 10,000 alumni. University status was granted in 1995.

Currently, students may choose from over 45 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and concentrations in the School of Business Administration, School of Education, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Science, Technology and Engineering, the School of Nursing, and the School of Social Work.

For all students, academic preparation is based on the premise that leadership is everyone's responsibility. The General Education Curriculum at the undergraduate level and related course work is designed to impart a broad, global viewpoint, and to develop skills which prepare men and women for active participation in society. In addition to providing a broad foundation in the liberal arts, the curriculum offers preparation in critical thinking and group problem-solving and in writing, speaking and interpersonal skills. The University has established more than 40 state-of-the-art computer labs on campus with two labs open 24 hours a day (Howard Hall 500 and Bey Hall). Wireless access points and wired ports are available for laptops at specified areas on campus. Every student is provided a student E-mail account (Hawkmail) and access to the Internet is available from all resident hall rooms.

As part of the emphasis on responsible citizenship, Monmouth encourages students to engage in volunteer activities on campus and off and has a part-time community service director and full-time volunteer and service coordinator. The University also offers internships and community-based courses, including a Literacy Project which sends undergraduates as tutors into inner city schools. Monmouth also participates each spring in the Model United Nations by hosting a conference for high school students from all over the state to act as delegates and debate world issues.

Program Mission, Goals, and Objectives

The central mission of the School of Social Work at MonmouthUniversity is to prepare its graduates for professional practice with a commitment to advancing human rights by implementing social and economic justice, improving the quality of life of vulnerable families, individuals, organizations, communities and nations on the local, national, and international levels.

Specifically the BSW Program prepares students for generalist professional social work practice. Secondarily, the BSW Program prepares social work students for graduate social work education. The BSW Program also introduces individuals within the University community to relevant social work and social welfare issues. The MSW Program at Monmouth University prepares graduates for advanced social work practice in one of two concentrations, one in Clinical Practice with Families and Children and the second in International and Community Development.

This is accomplished by empowering our graduates to articulate and implement a practice paradigm that advances human rights by implementing social and economic justice as an outcome.

Students are challenged to develop their understanding, analysis, and evaluation of human experiences and societies in the past and in the contemporary world, and of families and individuals of varied cultural and social contexts. These conceptualizations explicitly build on the liberal arts tradition. The curriculum supports this mission through two themes: a strengths based empowerment approach and families within a global context.

The School’s mission, goals, and objectives each are progressively more specific articulations to advance human rights by implementing social and economic justice as outcomes. The two interrelated themes – a strengths based empowerment approach and families within a global context – are weaved throughout the curriculum. Within the strengths based empowerment approach, strengths provide an approach to assessment and empowerment is conceived as an approach to intervention. Families within a global context define the initial focal social unit.

The strengths perspective is conceived of as an approach to assessment embodying social work efforts to tap into recognized capabilities and assets of families, individuals, organizations, communities and nations. Strengths based assessment demands a different way of looking at families, individuals, organizations, communities, and nations. All must be seen in the light of their capabilities, talents, competencies, possibilities, visions, values, and hopes, however dashed and distorted these may have become through domination, oppression, and trauma.

Empowerment is conceived of as the process of increasing personal, political, educational, and/or economic power so that families, individuals, communities, organizations and nations can take action to improve their situations. The purposes of empowerment include intervention strategies intended to advance human rights by implementing social and economic justice. Human rights, social and economic justice include preserving and restoring human dignity, benefiting from and celebrating the diversities of humanity, and transforming self and society to welcome and support the voices, the potential, the ways of knowing, and the energies of us all. Empowerment involves redistributing resources so that the voices and visions of persons previously excluded from resources, knowledge, decisions and power are included. It is a process through which people gain the power and resources necessary to shape our world and reach our full, human potential as members of families in a global context.

Understanding families within a global context recognizes that at this juncture in history, the local environments in which we live no longer solely define families. The definitions of family are expanding to include biological, legal, spiritual, and families of choice. The theme of families in a global context acknowledges that some individuals are in transition between their family of origin and their family of creation. Some individuals are without family by choice or circumstances, or may be in transition towards a new family of creation. Globalization and internationalization are increasingly replacing the local community as the basis for social identity. Our global perspective on families informs both of our concentrations (Clinical Practice with Families and Children and International and Community Development) as they develop students’ knowledge, values and skills to advance human rights by implementing social and economic justice.

Program Goals

The goals for the School of Social Work build on our mission. Students within the BSW and MSW Programs are expected to achieve these goals at differing levels of depth, breadth, and specificity as explicated within the objectives for each educational level.

The goals for student learning and program impact are designed to enable graduates to articulate a practice paradigm that emerges from the advancement of human rights by implementing social and economic justice. The following goals are rendered from this guiding departmental commitment:

  1. To conceptualize and contribute to social work theory, knowledge, values and skills on a generalist level for BSW students, and on an advanced, concentration specific level for MSW students through two interrelated themes: the strengths based empowerment approach, and understanding families within a global context.
  2. To develop an understanding, analysis, and evaluation of the quality of life and well being of vulnerable families, individuals, organizations, communities and nations that is grounded in human rights and social and economic justice.
  3. To prepare social work practitioners to develop and systematically apply knowledge, values, skills and ethics in their work with families, individuals, organizations communities and nations of diverse cultural contexts toward the prevention and/or solution of social problems.
  4. To think critically, analyze, produce, and disseminate research that informs theory, policy, practice and evaluation in social work.
  5. To collaborate with and support the surrounding community through advocacy, social action, volunteerism, service, education, and consultation with and on behalf of diverse cultures in working for human rights and social and economic justice.

Overarching

  1. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply critical thinking to social work practice knowledge, values, skills and ethics within generalist practice and at advanced levels of specialization.
  2. Students will demonstrate greater awareness of diversity of one’s self and others (including ethnicity, race, gender, class, culture, age, physical ability, spirituality, and sexual orientation) and how these diversities influence clients, ethical practice, and human rights and social and economic justice.
  3. Students will demonstrate their ability to understand the structure, means, implications, and consequences of inequality, injustice, domination, oppression and discrimination in society and will develop skill in the use of strategies that advance human rights and social and economic justice.
  4. Students will demonstrate their ability to utilize a strengths based empowerment approach to developing relationships, assessing the needs, and intervening with and on behalf of culturally diverse families, individuals, groups, and communities, including but not limited to the following populations at risk: people of color, women, gay and lesbian persons, and those distinguished by age, culture, class, religion, and physical or mental ability.
  5. Students will demonstrate their understanding of families in a global context through their assessment and intervention strategies that advance human rights by implementing social and economic justice.

Foundation Curriculum Objectives

  1. Demonstrate skill in communication, both written and verbal, and in the use of technology as appropriate for social work practice and professional knowledge development.
  2. Based on their analysis of the impact of external forces in promoting or hindering well-being, students demonstrate their skill for empowerment in working to advance human rights and social and economic justice.
  3. Use theoretical frameworks to understand and analyze growth, development, and the interactions among human biological, psychological, spiritual, social, economic, and cultural systems as they affect and are affected by human behavior.
  4. Understand the history of social welfare and social work as a profession, its contemporary structures and issues.
  5. Students will demonstrate their ability to critically analyze, formulate, and influence social policies and resulting social welfare services.
  6. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply the knowledge and skills of the generalist social work perspective with culturally diverse individual, families, groups and communities.
  7. Students will demonstrate their ability to evaluate research studies and apply findings to their social work practice, and, under supervision to evaluate their own social work interventions with families, individuals, organizations, and communities.
  8. Demonstrate the effective use of supervision and consultation appropriate to their social work practice.
  9. Students will demonstrate their ability to function within the structure of organizations and service delivery systems and seek necessary organizational change.

Clinical Practice with Families and Children Concentration Curriculum Objectives