SW-691: Professional Transition Seminar

This one-hour elective course focuses on fine-tuning the connection between their personal abilities and their professional social work skills as students prepare to transition from MSW students to advanced level social work practitioners. Students will be empowered by gaining knowledge to further facilitate their success as a Master's level social worker beyond graduation. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, identifying and connecting personal strengths to social work practice, career goal setting, establishing a peer consultation network, the connection between compassion fatigue and social work documentation, as well as preparing for the advanced comprehensive assessment and clinical licensure. The course will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis. Prerequisite: Eighteen (18) hours of 600 level social work courses.