Fieldwork

Fieldwork comprises a major portion of your MSW education. The Field Instruction Office designs and evaluates first- and second-year field placements, which allow students to develop the required practice skills with individuals, families, groups and communities. As a student conducting fieldwork, you learn engagement, assessment, intervention, evaluation and termination in a range of settings that provide diverse clients for you to serve. Through the weekly supervision and feedback from your social work field instructor, you develop self-reflection and improve your use of self with clients. You have maximum opportunities to build relationships with clients while learning to integrate classroom knowledge and professional ethics within your client interactions.

Settings such as hospitals, child welfare agencies, mental health and psychiatric facilities, child and family services, gerontology support programs, school-based services and substances abuse treatment all provide unique options for you to encounter clients and develop skills necessary to offer professional help and service. As a first-year student, you develop foundation practice skills, and in your second year, you deepen practice skills in your selected concentration area.

The directors in the Field Instruction Office develop field placements for students in all Wurzweiler programs: concurrent students who are given placements in a fieldwork agency; PEP students whose field placements are developed at their employing agencies; and block students coming from broad geographic area nationally and internationally.

Field Work Manual

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Forms

Planning for Field Placement: First Year

Instructions for First Year Field: Letter to Incoming Accelerated Students(PDF)
Instructions for First-Year Field Letter to Block Students (PDF)
Instructions for First-Year Field Letter to Extended Students (PDF)
Field Placement Planning Form: First Year (PDF)
Work-Study Contract: First Year (PDF)
Criteria for Work-Study (PDF)
Field Instructor Data Sheet (PDF)
 Educational Coordinator Letter: First Year (PDF)

Planning for Field Placement: Second Year

Instructions for Second-Year Field Letter (PDF)
Instructions for Advanced Standing Field Letter (PDF)
Field Placement Planning Form: Second Year (PDF)
Work-Study Contract: Second Year (PDF)
Criteria for Work Study (PDF)
Faculty Advisor Recommendation: Second Year (PDF)
Field Instructor Data Sheet (PDF)
Educational Coordinator Letter: Second Year (PDF)

Information for Agencies

Agency Request for Students Information (PDF)
Agency Request for Students Placements Form (PDF)
Agency Application (PDF)

Office of Field Instruction Field Evaluations

For Field Instructors - Winter Program (PDF)

For Educational Coordinators - Winter Program (PDF)

For Field Instructors - Block Program (PDF)

For Educational Coordinators - Block Program (PDF)

First-Year Evaluation (PDF)
Second-Year Evaluation (PDF)