•	Recognize the role of professional clinical social 
workers to assess, intervene, and prevent psychosocial
dysfunction and promote psychosocial well-being. 
•	Recognize ethical issues and apply ethical decision-
making skills to clinical social work practice with 
individuals.
•	Conceptualize, apply, analyze, synthesize and/or 
evaluate information that leads to competent social work
assessment and practice with individuals.
•	Understand clinical social work practice with 
individuals within the context of the client's culture,
community, and lifespan development.
•	Demonstrate effective oral and written communication 
for engagement, assessment, intervention, termination, and 
evaluation in clinical practice with individuals. 
•	Identify, select, apply, and evaluate appropriate 
theoretical, assessment, prevention, and intervention 
strategies for clinical practice with individuals. 
•	Understand the effects of and how to advocate for 
policies and service delivery system factors aimed toward
remediation of disparities in availability and accessibility 
of psychosocial services across diverse groups and 
populations. 
•	Demonstrate ability to accept feedback in response to 
classroom participation and written assignments so as to 
increase self-awareness and self-reflection and to improve 
clinical practice.

Frameworks for Clinical Social Work Practice
•	Setting the Stage: Clinical Theory, Phases of 
Treatment, Self-Care, Therapeutic Relationship, and 
Therapeutic Alliance
•	Critical thinking in social work practice as applied 
to: social work values and ethics, diversity and oppression,
impact of community/organizational contexts, evidence-based 
practice
•	Case Conceptualization: Engagement, Assessment, and 
Case Formulation
•	Treatment Planning: Setting Goals, Objectives, and 
Action Steps
•	Culturally Responsive and Anti-Oppressive Practice
•	Crisis Intervention, Suicide Assessment, Trauma 
Informed Care

Practice models based on theoretical approaches
•	Psychodynamic Therapy (Ego Psychology, Object 
Relations and Attachment Approaches)
•	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Behavioral Therapy, 
Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical 
Behavior Therapy) 
•	Postmodern Therapy (Motivational Interviewing; 
Solution-Focused and Narrative Therapy)
•	Theoretical Integration: Integrated Case Formulation 
and Intervention Planning