A CSWE Core Competency / Practice Behavior Workbook for Advanced Courses
Nichols’ Advancing Core Competencies: Emphasizing Practice Behaviors and Outcomes helps students master the competencies and practice behaviors with licensing-type exam questions that apply to specialized fields.
This workbook builds upon students’ prior knowledge gained from previous social work courses and presents an overview of generalist practice and principles related to the core competencies. It provides a detailed understanding and explanation of the each EPAS standard and is followed by questions that test students’ (1) Understanding of Knowledge and (2) Mastery and Assessment of Knowledge of Skills.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, students should be able to:
- Master each Core Competency before advancing to more difficult content and practice behaviors
- Apply the Core Competencies to realistic case scenarios
- Assess their understanding with the types of questions that they will find on their licensing exam
- Identify areas where more study is needed
Table of Contents:
IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
2.) FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Professional Identity
Chapter 2: Ethical Practice
Chapter 3: Critical Thinking
Chapter 4: Diversity in Practice
Chapter 5: Human Rights and Justice
Chapter 6: Research Based Practice
Chapter 7: Human Behavior
Chapter 8: Policy Practice
Chapter 9: Practice Contexts
Chapter 10: Engage, Assess, Intervene, Evaluate
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1: Professional Identity
Advocating for Client Access to Social Work Services
Personal Reflection and Self-Correction
Professional Roles and Boundaries
Professional Demeanor in Behavior, Appearance, and Communication
Engaging in Career-long Learning
Using Supervision and Consultation
Professional Behavior Examples and Assess Outcomes
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2: Ethical Practice
Recognizing and Managing Personal and Professional Values
Making Ethical Decisions
Tolerating Ambiguity in Resolving Ethical Conflicts
Applying Ethical Reasoning Strategies to Arrive at Principled Decisions
Ethical Behavior Examples and Assess Outcomes
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3: Critical Thinking
Distinguishing, Appraising, and Integrating Multiple Sources of Knowledge, Research, and Practice Wisdom
Analyzing Models of Assessment, Prevention, Intervention and Evaluation
Demonstrating Effective Interpersonal Communication Skills
Practice Critical Thinking Examples and Assess Outcomes
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4: Diversity in Practice
Recognizing Cultural Structures and Values
Gaining Self-Awareness: Eliminating Personal Biases and Values
Recognizing, Communicating, and Understanding “Difference” in Shaping Life Experience
Learning and Engaging With Those Whom Work as Informants
Practice Diversity Examples and Assess Outcomes
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5: Human Rights and Justice
Understanding Forms and Mechanisms of Oppression and Discrimination
Advocating for Human Rights and Social and Economic Justice
Advancing Social and Economic Justice
Advocating for Human Rights Examples and Justice and Assess Outcomes
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6: Research Based Practice
Using Experience to Inform Scientific Inquiry
Using Evidence Based Research to Inform Practice
Practice Research Examples and Assess Outcomes
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7: Human Behavior
Using Conceptual Frameworks to Guide Assessment, Intervention, and Evaluation
Critiquing and Applying Knowledge to Understand People and Their Environment
Applying Human Behavior Examples and Assess Outcomes
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8: Policy Practice
Analyzing, Formulating, and Advocating for Policies
Collaborating with Others for Effective Policy Action
Policy Engagement Examples and Assess Outcomes
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9: Practice Contexts
Discovering, Appraising, and Attending to Changes and Trends to Provide Relevant Services
Providing Leadership in Promoting Change in Service Delivery and Practice
Practice Contextual Behavior Examples and Assess Outcomes
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10: Engage, Assess, Intervene, Evaluate
Engagement
Assessment
Intervention
Evaluation
Practice Engagement, Assessment, Intervention, and Evaluation Examples and Assess Outcomes
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About the Author :
Quienton Nichols, PhD is currently Assistant Professor of Social Work in the Department of Social Work and Human Services at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia a suburb of Atlanta Georgia. He received his MSW from the University of Georgia in 1990 and PhD in Social Work Policy, Administration and Social Science Clark Atlanta University in 2007. While at KSU, Dr. Nichols has had administrative appointments as the Director of the Child Welfare Scholars Program and Director of MSW Field Education and is currently specializes in Policy development and race relations as a commissioner on the President’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Dialogue (CORED). He was invited internationally to participate in the Oxford Round Table’s Annual Spring 2011 Session inOxford, England on Nationality, Religion and Immigration.
He has published on child welfare retention and is also the author of Connecting Core Competencies: A Workbook for Social Work Students.
