Social Work

Field Work Instruction

The Mental Health Clinic, In-Patient Unit and the Trauma and Stress Reduction Center offer field work instruction opportunities to social work students from the Hebrew University, The Judea and Samaria Academic College and Wurtzweiller School of Social Work, Yeshiva University.

The students are trained in psycho-social assessment, individual psychotherapeutic interventions and short-term family interventions. They acquire skills for gathering collateral information, entitlement counseling, and power of attorney and guardianship procedures. The multi-disciplinary staff provides a forum for discussion, deliberation and learning. Students are exposed to ethical questions and issues.  They are expected to initiate and complete a project which is designed to contribute to the patient, service/community and personal knowledge such as compilation of a service directory, serving in groups designed for patients and/or their families as well as in community action.

Students are supervised by senior social workers and are expected to participate in lecture/workshops and bi-weekly support groups under the auspices of the social work department field work training center.

They are taught generic social work skills within an Eco-Systems Paradigm. Their practice skills include individual intra-psychic and interpersonal assessments and interventions, focusing on concrete (economic, housing, recreational, etc..) and personal developmental issues.

Students are provided with a knowledge base for continued study and social work practice in a variety of areas.