Through a DEI lens. Enhancing cultural responsiveness and affirmative care skills of graduate students to work with BIPOC and marginalized communities.
Abstract:
Social work students’ clinical and ethical skill development must ensure they have adequate cultural humility/responsiveness and an affirming care approach to client services while utilizing a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) framework with marginalized communities. Social work students’ effective client care skills are essential while working with diverse and marginalized populations by addressing three critical domains in coursework designed from a DEI framework that includes: assessment, engagement, and intervention. In addressing these three domains, future professional social workers will ensure that they are providing affirmative, culturally competent clinical care to individuals, couples, families, groups, and communities.
Keywords:
Instructional Skills, Course/Curriculum (Re) Design, Indirect Instruction
Outcomes:
Acquire strategy on how to incorporate a DEI framework in course syllabus.
Describe and provide information about affirming care approach to use with students.
Demonstrate cultural responsiveness as an teaching intervention for students.
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