![]() ![]() Trauma informed social workers research, study, and implement current evidence-informed approaches and technologies for working with individuals, families, organizations, and communities who have suffered violence, victimization, systematic oppression, abuse, and other personal and collective traumatic experiences while addressing complex ethical issues that may emerge within and from studying and implementing evidence-in-formed approaches. They recognize the impact of historical, collective, global, secondary, and vicarious exposure to trauma and the resulting cognitive shift in worldview. Trauma-informed social workers understand their own trauma-related history, client experience of trauma, and their positionality as it relates to issues of diversity. They engage in ethical decision making that addresses the potential risk for harm and retraumatization in the helping relationship. They demonstrate ethical behavior by developing and maintaining professional development activities at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Trauma informed social workers recognize the importance of attending to organizational dynamics that contribute to traumatic stress. They are knowledgeable about the impact of personal and collective, secondary, and vicarious exposure to trauma. ![]() They adhere to the ethical responsibility to represent themselves as competent only within the boundaries of their education, training, supervised experience, or other relevant professional experience. The advanced trauma informed macro specialization aims to train students to conduct research and program evaluations to inform their practice and to critically examine the effectiveness of macro interventions, and also prepare students for advanced practice in a variety of settings, including governmental, nonprofit, and for-profit agencies locally, nationally and globally.Ĭompetency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior Trauma-informed social workers recognize and demonstrate the key characteristics of trauma-informed practice. These practitioners operate from the perspective that traumatic experiences encountered by individuals, families and communities are often a function of social systems or institutional deficiencies that need to be addressed to create a healthier society. Students specializing in trauma-informed macro practice deepen their understanding of and their skills related to macro practice and learn to recognize the significant overlap in roles, skills, and perspectives of social work managers, planners, community organizers, and policy advocates. ![]() ![]() Students are also introduced to a range of social work roles used in community and organizational practice – such as a coordinator, case manager, planner, broker, policy analyst, advocate and organizer – and the importance of knowledge and skills in community practice for direct service and clinical social work. In the generalist foundation curriculum, all students gain an understanding of social systems, especially communities and social policies that affect human behavior through social control and resource distribution. Students focusing on trauma informed macro practice are trained to work with individuals, organizations, communities and larger systems to plan, develop, organize, administer, and evaluate programs of social services and to stimulate collective action to influence conditions in communities and policies on local, stare, and federal levels. The trauma informed clinical practice deepens students’ assessment and intervention skills with individuals, families, and groups increases skills in the professional use of self, including the ability to operate from a stance of cultural humility expands knowledge of policies that provide resources for and constrain clinical practice and trains students to conduct research to inform their practice and critically examine the effectiveness of clinical interventions. This specialization builds on content in the generalist foundation curriculum to further develop students’ abilities to improve the quality of life and enhance the social functioning of individuals, families, groups and communities through direct services. ![]()
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