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Week three for SOWK 590 is synchronous, with class on Saturday (02/08/25). Students will reflect on their practicum experience in their journal, have a student-led discussion regarding supervision, engage in mindfulness through gratitude, and participate in a group reflecting on their practice. The following is the agenda:
The learning objectives this week include:
Attendance and In-Class Participation
Attend class on Saturday.
Weekly Reflective Journals
Complete the W-03 A-02 Reflective Journal by Sunday Night.
Student-Led Discussion
If you signed up to facilitate the SLED “Practicum Supervision/Supervision Agendas” session, please be prepared to review it in class. I would be particularly interested in how people utilize supervision in their practicum, what they get out of it, what agendas they might use, and why intentionality in our supervision could be helpful.
Submit Your Practicum Hours
Please submit your signed form for January Practicum Hours, due before 2/15.
Our mindfulness activity for this week will be a free writing activity focused on gratitude. Actively appreciating the experiences we engage with in our daily lives appears to be a potent way to improve the quality of our social relationships, producing sustained improvements in psychological well-being and overall happiness (O’Connell et al., 2018, p. 2441). I’ve included their paper this week if you would like to read through it. There is a powerful YouTube video that I’d also want you to watch by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell (2019), titled An Antidote to Dissatisfaction.
All of the presentations for this class can be found at https://presentations.jacobrcampbell.com. This week’s slides are Spring 2025 SOWK 591 Week 03 - Advanced Seminar II.
You can find all of the videos for this course in Lecture Videos.
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Reference
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell. (2019). An antidote to dissatisfaction [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/WPPPFqsECz0
O’Connell, B. H., O’Shea, D., & Gallagher, S. (2018). Examining psychosocial pathways underlying gratitude interventions: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Happiness Studies, 19(8), 2421-2444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-017-9931-5