Teaching Assistant: SWRK 342 - Social Work, Gender and Sexual Diversity

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Teaching Assistant required for SWRK 342 - Social Work, Gender and Sexual Diversity for 90 hours for Winter 2025 Term.

Knowledge of the following is required:

• Clinical social work practice with individuals and families.
• Theories and techniques informing clinical social work practice with individual and family systems in a social context.
• Skills required for assessment and treatment across a range of social work practice settings.
• The stages of the helping process (preparation, initial, middle, and end stages) through understandings that derive from social work values, ecosystems, problem solving and strengths perspective, life course theories and explorations of motivations for change, relationship building and use of self.
• Integration of the following in practice with individuals and families: sexual orientation, race, class, gender, culture, migration, ability and diverse family forms.
• Knowledge of and ability to teach to the centrality of social location (age, race/racialization, class, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, migration, ability, etc.) and power relations (ageism, racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, heteronormativism, ableism etc.) embedded in assessment and intervention activities.
• The integration of skills of mindfulness related to practice (reflexivity), and reflect upon the possible effects of personal factors on assessment and intervention.
• Foundational knowledge and skills required to engage in respectful and meaningful relationships with individuals and families, embark upon thorough and informed assessments, and develop sensitive and ethical plans of intervention across a range of practice settings.
• Identify the values from which practice with individuals and families arises.
• Skills in assessment, intervention and evaluation of social work practice with individuals and families by learning how to engage, talk to, and work with individuals and families at different stages of the social work encounter.
• Written psychosocial assessment.

Hourly Salary:

Position Start Date:

2025-01-03

Position End Date:

2025-05-10

Deadline to Apply:

2024-12-10

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