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• MSW Foundation 11: Develop skills in program evaluation and evaluation of practice
methodologies.
• MSW Foundation 12: Recognize the impact of oppression on the lives of clients, challenge
oppressive thinking and practices. Apply strengths and empowerment perspectives in work with
diverse clientele.
• MSW Foundation 13: Understand the elements of ethical professional practice and recognize
and evaluate ethical dilemmas in practice.
• MSW Foundation 14: Use peer and supervisory support effectively in an effort to improve
one’s practice.
Advanced Year Competencies (Student Outcome Objectives)
The requisite advanced practice competencies are to be demonstrated by program graduates in
order to meet the goal of preparing advanced degree social workers. Advanced year
competencies represent the levels of achievement at which MSW students should be performing
by the time they graduate from the Program.
MSW Advanced 1: Applies an interdisciplinary orientation in the systematic change
process (e.g., intake and assessment, plan development; interventions; evaluation and
reassessment; and/or termination) with multi-level systems.
MSW Advanced 2: Utilizes the strengths perspective and a capacity-building approach in
the systematic change process with multi-level systems.
MSW Advanced 3: Competently employs interventions that reflect principles and
methodologies consistent with social work practice in community-based, family-focused
settings, particularly those that reflect practice from an empowerment and strengths-
based perspective. The MSW student appropriately applies such interventions relative to
his/her practice methodology (Administration/Management or Advanced Direct Practice).
Students apply a three-step process:
a. Student researches and assesses best-practice interventions using an empowerment
and strengths perspective framework.
b. Student integrates best-practice interventions into the community-based agency
setting using an empowerment and strengths perspective framework.
c. Student evaluates impact of best-practice interventions within the community-
based agency structure using an empowerment and strengths perspective
framework.
MSW Advanced 4: Provides leadership by conducting empirical research activities
designed to shape more effective public/tribal family intervention practices and provide
supporting data for policy changes that enhance family well-being. These activities may
include qualitative or quantitative methodologies directed at needs assessment, process or
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