Social Work AA
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Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:
Identify as professional social workers and conduct themselves accordingly by attending to professional roles and boundaries, practicing personal reflection and self-correction to assure continual professional development, and by demonstrating professional demeanor in behavior, appearance, and communication.
Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice by recognizing and managing personal values in a way that allows professional values to guide practice.
Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments by demonstrating effective oral and written communication in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and colleagues, and by analyzing models of assessment, prevention, intervention, and evaluation.
Engage diversity and difference in practice and recognize the extent to which a culture’s structures and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power. Students will recognize and communicate their understanding of the importance of differences in shaping life experiences, and view themselves as learners who engage those with whom they work as informants.
Advance human rights and social and economic justice by beginning to understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination.
Apply knowledge of human behavior and social environment by utilizing conceptual frameworks to guide the process of assessment, intervention, and evaluation, and by critiquing and applying knowledge to understand person and environment.
Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities by: substantively and affectively prepare for action with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities; collecting, organizing and interpreting client data; assessing client strengths and limitations; developing mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives.
In addition to the program outcomes, students will meet the North Idaho College General Education (GEM) Requirements.