Intro to Social Work Chapter 3

Is a phenomenon of the twentieth century.

Results from community demands for trained staff to administer a multibillion-dollar human service system.

Colleges and universities having status with other professional schools and academic colleges.

Students in the under-graduate, master's and doctoral programs.

Has been acclaimed in the past as the basic professional social work degree.

Practice degree programs have been instituted at the bachelor's degree level.

Have been developed for professional education at the doctoral, master's, and bachelor's degree levels.

Have become very popular, and the number of programs has increased dramatically.

The board of directors of CSWE adopted a new curriculum policy staement for both the MSW and BSW programs. This is the first time that the BSW education program's expectations were included in the seminal document.

Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) that defined the purpose of social work education.

Addressed itself to the important problems of structure and quality in social work education.

CSWE has required schools on ALL levels to stress generalist practice and generalist prespective.

understand and be able to work with the interaction of multiple human systems.

The MSW level, but the following material from the 2001 EPAS gives the basic parameters of the foundation areas:Value and EthicsDiversityPopulations-at-Risk and Social/Economic JusticeHuman Behavior and the Social EnviromentSocial Welfare Policy and ServicesSocial work practiceReseachField Education

Best Practice means stressing the importance of empirical research in selectiving interventions and designing social service programs.