Overview
In this final assignment, you will create a portfolio that highlights the projects, professional growth, and disciplinary skills that have been part of your work during the MSW program. Your portfolio will take the form of a PowerPoint presentation, so be creative with this assignment and include photos and other graphics that illustrate your social work journey.
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs and advance practice behaviors:
Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
C1.SP.A: Utilize best practices in ethical decision making by applying leadership skills, technology, relevant laws and regulations, core values, and standards of the NASW Code of Ethics to an ethical problem-solving model to inform ethical decision making in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
C1.SP.B: Guided by best advanced generalist practice skills, apply professional behavior and leadership skills in oral, written, and electronic communication with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
1. Describe how ethical behaviors were demonstrated in practice.
Competency 3: Engage Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.
C3.SP.A: Demonstrate how diversity and intersectionality shape human experiences and apply anti-racist and anti-oppressive intervention techniques and technologies with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalized practice.
C3.SP.B: Demonstrate cultural humility by applying leadership skills, ethical use of technology, 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 in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
2. Describe how ADEI awareness was demonstrated in practice.
Competency 4: Engage in Practice-Informed Research and Research-Informed Practice.
C4.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, ethical use of technology and research findings to inform and improve practice, policy, and programs in the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings.
Related Assignment Criterion:
3. Describe applications of integrating practice-informed research.
Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice.
C5.SP.A: Use social justice, decision making, critical thinking, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive, strategies to assess how social welfare policies affect the delivery of and access to services with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities at the local and global levels in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
4. Describe engagement in policy practice.
Competency 6: Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C6.SP.A: Critically evaluate theories of human behavior, person in environment, and interpersonal conceptual frameworks to facilitate engagement with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
C6.SP.B: Apply leadership skills, emerging technologies, empathy, self-reflection, interpersonal skills, in culturally responsive engagement strategies with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
5. Describe evidence of engagement with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C7.SP.A: Apply and integrate leadership skills, technology, theories of human behavior, person in environment, and culturally responsive interpersonal conceptual frameworks when assessing clients and constituencies in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
C7.SP.B: Apply critical thinking, interpersonal, engagement skills and the ethical use of technology in the assessment process to promote client rights to self-determination and collaborate with clients and constituencies to develop mutually agreed upon goals in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
6. Describe assessment of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Competency 8: Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C8.SP.B: Analyze and integrate culturally responsive best practice theories and methods in the specialization of advanced generalist practice to negotiate, mediate, and advocate with and on the behalf of clients and constituencies.
C8.SP.C: Apply leadership skills, decision making, interprofessional conceptual frameworks, and emerging technologies in the specialization of advanced generalist social work practice when intervening with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to promote systemic change towards client sustainability.
Related Assignment Criterion:
7. Describe interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Competency 9: Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
C9.SP.A: Analyze and integrate culturally responsive evaluation and assessment methods to evaluate outcomes with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
C9.SP.B: Apply critical thinking, leadership skills and technology in the application of evaluation findings with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the specialization of advanced generalist practice.
Related Assignment Criterion:
8. Evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities and offers evidence.
Instructions
As you assemble your MSW program portfolio as a PowerPoint presentation, include the following:
Regarding the client or client system that you analyzed in your Case Study Analysis and Intervention Plan assignment:
Describe how ethical behaviors were demonstrated in practice with this client or client system.
Offer specific examples to support the description of how ethical behaviors were demonstrated.
Describe how ADEI awareness was demonstrated in practice.
Offer specific examples to support the description of how ADEI awareness was demonstrated.
Describe applications of integrating practice-informed research.
Offer specific examples of integrating practice-informed research.
Regarding the federal, state, or local social policy that you analyzed in your Policy Analysis and Advocacy Paper:
Describe applications of integrating practice-informed research.
Offer specific examples of integrating practice-informed research.
Describe engagement in policy practice.
Offer specific examples of engaging in policy practice.
Regarding other experiences during the MSW program:
Describe evidence of engagement with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Explain growth and transformative experiences.
Describes assessment of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Explain growth and transformative experiences.
Describes interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities.
Explain growth and transformative experiences.
Evaluates practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities and offers evidence.
Explain growth and transformative experiences.
Submission Requirements
The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication should be scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the social work profession. Visit the Capella Writing CenterLinks to an external site. for a variety of helpful writing resources.
Presentation Length: 15–20 double-spaced pages/powerpoint slide, not including title slide or reference slide.
Cited Sources: Minimum of eight scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years. Visit the Capella University LibraryLinks to an external site. and the Social Work Masters Library Research GuideLinks to an external site. for a variety of research resources.
APA Format: Resources, citations, title page, and reference page should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards. Visit Evidence and APALinks to an external site. for resources to help you with APA format.
