特洛伊大学

The Troy University Master in Social Work Program derives its mission from the University’s goal of preparing students to demonstrate competence in their chosen field and to encourage excellence in student learning. The purpose of the Master in Social Work Program is to prepare students for advanced social work practice.

The Program is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life beginning with, and progressing through, the individual system and increasingly complex levels of social organization. The basic aim is to prepare the graduate with advanced social work knowledge, values, and skills to practice within the context of a diverse, multicultural, global, and technologically oriented society. Teaching, learning, and service are exercised in an atmosphere that prizes and upholds the traditions, values, and ethics of the social work profession.

The Master in Social Work derives the program’s objectives in accordance with the Council on Social Work Education Educational Policy Handbook. Students will be able to:

• Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior
• Social workers understand the value base of the profession and its ethical standards, as well as relevant laws and regulations that may impact practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
• Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice.
• Social workers understand how diversity and difference characterize and shape the human experience and are critical to the formation of identity.
• Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice.
• Social workers understand that every person regardless of position in society has fundamental human rights such as freedom, safety, privacy, an adequate standard of living, health care, and education.
• Engage in Practice-Informed Research and Research-Informed Practice.
• Social workers understand quantitative and qualitative research methods and their respective roles in advancing a science of social work and in evaluating their practice.
• Engage in Policy Practice.
• Social workers understand that human rights and social justice, as well as social welfare and services, are mediated by policy and its implementation at the federal, state, and local levels.
• Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
• Social workers understand that engagement is an ongoing component of the dynamic and interactive process of social work practice with, and on behalf of, diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
• Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
• Social workers understand that assessment is an ongoing component of the dynamic and interactive process of social work practice with, and on behalf of, diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
• Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
• Social workers understand that intervention is an ongoing component of the dynamic and interactive process of social work practice with, and on behalf of, diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
• Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
• Social workers understand that evaluation is an ongoing component of the dynamic and interactive process of social work practice with, and on behalf of, diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities.