0 Objectives for Health and Mental Health Practicum Demonstrate the ability to maintain professional relationships with agency personnel, community volunteers, colleagues, faculty, clients, and others. Enhance the student s ability to work within the purpose, structure, and parameters of the agency setting, yet maintaining adherence and sensitivity to the code of ethics and values, which ultimately must guide practice including the principle of social and economic justice. Actively apply social work knowledge and competencies through the participation with others in creating new, modified, or improved services, resources or systems that are more equitable, just and responsive to all persons with particular attention to persons most vulnerable and discriminated against. Effectively work with individuals, families, or groups by providing or linking them with appropriate and timely resources, services, and opportunities that enable them to live in the least restrictive environment and with the maximum realization with their potential.
Effective practice integrates both generalist and clinical arenas.
Demonstrate the understanding and application of social work values and ethics in the process of diagnosis and assessment. Demonstrate the understanding and applied knowledge of elements of the DSM IV in field practicum recognizing that labeling and even the process of assessment and diagnosis can be oppressive and constrictive by its nature. Ensuing practice behaviors must demonstrate this understanding. Demonstrate the ability to establish with reasonable clinical certainty that a person is in imminent danger to self or others when encountered in the field setting. This should be reviewed with the field instructor.