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Homework
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this homework, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:
I. Competency I: Demonstrate anti-racist and anti-oppressive social work practice at the individual, family, group, organizational, community, research, and policy levels.
1. Describe the difference between one's personal and professional values.
2. Describe how to maintain competence, integrity, boundaries, and social justice while dealing with personal bias.
II. Competency II: Demonstrate cultural humility by applying critical reflection, self-awareness, and self-regulation to manage the influence of bias, power, privilege, and values in working with clients and constituencies, acknowledging them as experts of their own lived experiences.
1. Describe how personal and professional values play a role in social work practice and ethical decision-making.
2. Illustrate (with images and words) the concepts of competency, integrity, boundaries, and social justice.
III. Competency III: Use empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to engage in culturally responsive practice with clients and constituencies.
1. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
IV. Competency IV: Engage with clients and constituencies to critically choose and implement culturally responsive, evidence-informed interventions to achieve client and constituency goals.
1. Describe how to advocate for clients to secure resources to support their efforts to change behaviors, and how this relates to ethics and values.
V. Competency V: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession.
1. Address the appropriate audience, using familiar, discipline-specific language and terminology.
Overview
Part of becoming a professional social worker is reflecting on how your personal values and professional ethics will play a role in your practice. This homework will give you an opportunity to define some key terms, consider potential ethical challenges in your present or future practice, and place your discussion in a scholarly context.
One way to do this is through the use of infographics. In your studies, you examined "Digital Literacy: Learning Through Infographics," by Danielle Davis. For this homework, you will prepare an infographic or concept map addressing the difference between your personal and professional values and examining how personal values can create bias. In addition, you will create a one-page written document or three-minute audio/video explanation of your infographic.
You may want to revisit the examples you studied in the Infographic Examples reading list.
By successfully completing this homework, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs?and advanced practice behaviors:
I. EPAS Competency I: Engage Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice
1. Demonstrate cultural humility by applying critical reflection, self-awareness, and self-regulation to manage the influence of bias, power, privilege, and values in working with clients and constituencies, acknowledging them as experts of their own lived experiences.
a. Related Homework Criteria:
b. Identify personal and professional values.
c. Illustrate (with images and words) the concepts of competency, integrity, boundaries, and social justice.
II. EPAS Competency II: Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
1. Use empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to engage in culturally responsive practice with clients and constituencies.
a. Related Homework Criteria:
b. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
III. EPAS Competency III: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
1. Demonstrate respect for client self-determination during the assessment process by collaborating with clients and constituencies in developing a mutually agreed-upon plan.
a. Related Homework Criteria:
b. Describe how personal and professional values play a role in social work practice and ethical decision-making.
IV. EPAS Competency IV: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities
1. Engage with clients and constituencies to critically choose and implement culturally responsive, evidence-informed interventions to achieve client and constituency goals.
a. Related Homework Criteria:
b. Depict how to advocate for clients to secure resources to support their efforts to change behaviors and how this relates to ethics and values.
Instructions
Part A: Infographic
For this homework, prepare an infographic or concept map addressing the difference between your personal and professional values and examining how personal values can create bias. Show how values will play a role in social work practice and ethical decision-making based on the lens and content of the assigned reading. Use words, images, symbols, and other media to detail your accounts. Use the assigned readings to guide the development of your infographic.
Part B: Explanation
Create a one-page written document or three-minute audio/video explanation of your infographic and upload it as an additional document to your infographic homework. Use the instruction, prompts, and grading rubric to describe the components of your infographic.
Be sure to include the following:
I. Describe the difference between your personal and professional values and examine how personal values can create bias.
II. Describe how personal and professional values play a role in social work practice and ethical decision-making.
III. Illustrate (with images and words) the concepts of competency, integrity, boundaries, and social justice.
IV. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
1. Lay out any ethical challenges you anticipate in the field and areas or concepts on which you can improve.
2. Be insightful and use critical thought for this explanation.
V. Describe how you could advocate for clients to secure resources to support their efforts to change behaviors and how this relates to ethics and values.
This homework is developed to harness your creativity to social work practice.