Social Work Practicum and Field Seminars – Placement 1 (SWK485)

This is a series of seminars and workshops aimed at preparing students for their first social work practicum, as well as to review students’ progress during their practicum. Students are expected to reflect, process, analyse and discuss their experiences working in the agencies they have been placed. It is aimed at integrating theories and knowledge gained in other courses with students’ practice experience in their practicum. In the seminars, students are expected to share their experience to enable cross-learning from diverse social work contexts and environments. Students are expected to show evidence of how they have integrated the theories and values of social work in practice.

• Desired Learning Outcomes
• Preparation for the Practicum
• Nature and Scope of the Practicum
• Knowing the Agencye Practicum
• Professional Conduct and Developmental Activitiesp
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Supervisor
• Roles and Responsibilities of the studentsor
• Casework
• Case recording
• Report writing
• Self evaluation
• Supervisor's evaluation

• Integrate social work theories and values into field practice.
• Compare and discuss social work practices in diverse environments.
• Reflect and appraise values and assumptions on social work practice.
• Examine and discuss challenges related to field education.
• Integrate theories of social work practice related to the progress of their field education.
• Demonstrate key skills set out in the National Social Work Competency Framework.
• Demonstrate social work values related to cross-cultural practice.