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2.1.10 Engage, assess, intervene and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations and
communities
Practice Behaviors:
(a) Engagement:
Substantively and affectively prepare for action with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities; use
empathy and other interpersonal skills; Develop a mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired outcomes
(b) Assessment
Collect, organize, and interpret client data; assess client strengths and limitation
develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives ; select appropriate intervention strategies
( c ) Intervention
Initiate actions to achieve organizational goals; implement prevention interventions that enhance client capacities; help clients
resolve problems; negotiate, mediate, and advocate for clients; facilitate transitions and endings
(d) Evaluation
Critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate interventions
11 Analyze the impact of the urban context on a range of client systems, including practice implications
Practice Behaviors:
Examine the distinct characteristics of the urban context and apply them.
TEXT AND REQUIRED MATERIAL
Kirst-Ashman, K. K. & Hull, G. H. [2012). Understandinggeneralistpractice (6th ed). Belmont, California:
Brooks/Cole.
Hepworth, D. H., Rooney, R. H., Rooney, G. D. & Strom-Gottfried, K. (2005). Direct Social Work Practice:
Theory and Skills (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks /Cole.
Chapter 1 The Challenges of Social Work;
Chapter 4 Operationalizing the Cardinal Social Work Values;
Chapter 5 Building Blocks of Communication: Communicating with Empathy
and auththencity
Chapter 6 Verbal Following, Exploring, and Focusing Skills
Chapter 14 Developing Resources, Organizing, Planning, and Advocacy as Intervention
Strategies.
Payne, Malcolm (2005). Modern social work theory (7th. edition). Chicago, IL.: Lyceum
Chapter 7 "Systems theory and ecological perspective".
This chapter will be on Blackboard. Unless you want to, you do not need to purchase the book.
Recommended Text
Benjamin, A. (2001). The helping interview (4r ed.). Boston: Houghton M.
INTRODUCTION
This is the first in a sequence of four courses, (SW3010, 3020, 4010, and 4020), designed to develop the
practice knowledge and skills necessary for BSW students to begin professional social work practice. The