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Applying human rights approaches in social work education through incorporating practitioner involvement and social work activism in classroom settings Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Kerry Cuskelly
As a practice-based profession, the application of human rights approaches situated within a radical and critical lens is the focus of this article. It is suggested in this article that human right...
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Exploring Latin American Organizational Social Work (OSW): a primary analysis of the conceptual, epistemic and methodological bases of OST in Latin American schools of social work Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 M. Alejandra Inostroza, Paula Miranda Sánchez, Magdalena Pilar Calderón Orellana, Jorge Farah Ojeda
Despite the prevalence of social workers working in the organizational field, there is no consensus in the literature on what Organizational Social Work (OSW) is and how it is understood from a Lat...
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Nexus between environmental justice and social work education: perspectives from the School of Social Work, McGill University, Canada Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Ata Senior Yeboah, Charles Gyan
This paper addresses the imperative for social work educators and professionals to integrate environmental dimensions into curricula and field practice purposefully. Advocates argue that this integ...
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On emperors, monsters and social workers human rights based narratives for post-covid times Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Emilio J. Gómez-Ciriano
The outbreak of COVID-19 has affected—and continues to affect—social work both in its professional dimension and as an academic discipline in its teaching and research variants. Numerous studies, c...
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Fostering professional judgement and decision making in social work education: addressing dilemmas of equal treatment Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Stefanie Julia Witter
Since social workers are often confronted with dilemmas as insoluble conflicts, professional judgment and decision-making skills are necessary. Therefore, social workers must already be confronted ...
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Social work in the context of child protection in Seychelles: educational preparedness from a global and local perspective Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 A. N. Orock, P. Navratil
Child protection’s complexity requires localized understanding within social work. This paper focuses on the child protection system in the Republic of Seychelles and evaluates social workers’ prep...
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Pedagogies of possibility: Case studies from using foresight tools in the social work classroom Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Danielle Maude Littman, Finn Bell, Anderson Al Wazni, Alexis Speck Glennon, Jimmy A. Young, Lauri Goldkind, Leah Prussia, Laura Nissen
Social workers engage across sectors to advocate for social justice, empower individuals and communities and work toward more equitable futures. Foresight practice, or the systematic scan of past a...
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Digital storytelling as virtual work integrated learning: the Mia project in child and family social work education Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Fatin Shabbar, Aidan Cornelius-Bell, Tania Hall
Digital Storytelling as a pedagogical tool in higher education is still an emerging technology with great potential for growth and innovation. While there has been a growing interest in the pedagog...
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Trends in social work education in Colombia: legacies of professional history Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Luz Diaz Mateus, Raquel Méndez Villamizar, Claudia Quijano Mejía
This article presents the curricular trends of Social Work education in Colombia focusing on the legacy of the historical periods of the profession in Latin America: Traditional, Developmentalist, ...
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Insights from the lived experience of Buddhist ethics: implications for social work ethics education Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Bibiana D. Koh
Ethics is largely dominated by European curriculum which includes Western moral theories such as deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and care ethics. To decenter this dominant ethics curricu...
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Bouncing back and bouncing forward: coping strategies used by the social workers during COVID-19 pandemic Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Alexandra Tamiolaki, Argyroula Kalaitzaki, George Tsouvelas
Studies have suggested that social workers being indirectly exposed to their patients’ COVID-19-related traumatic experiences may have both negative (i.e. secondary traumatic stress symptoms; STS) ...
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Social work: a reader Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Haryanto, Rini Solihat, Dewi Sulistyowati, Anita Fadhilah, Nanda Ayu Lestari, Burhanudin
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Indigenization discourse in social work international perspectives Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Hariasda Rikardus Mario Sani, Moh. Taufik Kholil, Ucik Nurmalaningsih
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The merging of knowledge and teaching about poverty through a participatory action project Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Rosa J. Cho
It is known among social work educators that training students about human rights is not only a mandate of the profession’s governing bodies but a desirable goal. While the notion of giving voice t...
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Challenging the narrative: social work students’ views on the impact of service user and carer-led pedagogy to knowledge and practice Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Eleni Skoura-Kirk
Service user and carer involvement is firmly established as an integral part of social work education in the UK, with a growing body of evidence demonstrating its beneficial effects on student lear...
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Teaching human rights-based social work in Australia – drawing from practice experiences in diverse environments Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Lisa Ewenson
This reflective piece considers the author’s formative professional experiences including working in the criminal justice system in Central Australia, and conducting humanitarian monitoring of immi...
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Determination and assessment of the best interest of children: drawing lessons from stakeholders and the need for interdisciplinary education; the case of Cyprus Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Christos Panagiotopoulos, Anna Plevri, Joanna Katsounari
Protecting vulnerable children is always a challenging and difficult task. Many of the challenges stem from the nature of the difficulties that children come across in their life and especially fro...
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Exploring the implicit curriculum in social work education: a narrative literature review Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Angela Rosignoli
In recent years, scientific literature on educational processes has focused on the physical and social environment as a significant factor in the development of students’ learning processes. Severa...
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Social work with encamped refugees: reflections from Tongogara refugee camp in Zimbabwe Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Raymond Taruvinga, Johanne Mhlanga
In this article, we draw on our joint experiences as social work practitioners and researchers in a rights-restricting practice context, a refugee camp. We reflect on social workers’ roles in navig...
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Arab minority social workers trained in a foreign language: linguistic challenges and coping mechanisms Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Ibrahim Mahajne
The research highlights challenges involved in ensuring professional authentication faced by social workers working in cultural minorities. The findings contribute to the knowledge corpus that disc...
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Positioning sexual justice within social work teaching on human rights: countering contemporary sexuality oppression Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 George W. Turner
Access to sexual health, sexuality information, sexual expression and sexual pleasure is a human right. Yet, the sexual health and wellness landscape has become a battlefield. Recently large-scale ...
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Building on strengths to develop the leadership of social workers Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Sharanya Mahesh, Robin Miller
The importance of leadership to creating supportive organizational cultures and positive team cultures for social work practice is well recognized. Yet, there are few opportunities provided for dev...
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Social work education in Vietnam: the development, challenges and ongoing effort to indigenization in the past two decades Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Nguyen Thi Thai Lan, Richard Hugman, Tran Thi Huong Giang
Social work education is considered essential in developing the social work profession in Vietnam to set a foundation for the profession in the late 1980s. Since officially given a training code in...
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Teaching note: personal attack or the personal touch? Evaluating the use of video feedback methods with qualifying social workers Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Louise Isham, Kelly Tighe, Sarah-Jane Fenton
Social work skills such as the ability to reflect on self and to recognize and manage emotions are fostered in part through using and receiving feedback, however there is limited research about fee...
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Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Muhamad Irfan Nurdiansyah, Reski Putra Utama
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Does qualifying route inform preparedness for child protection practice? An appraisal of the testimonies of 201 ‘early career’ social workers Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Ciarán Murphy, Shaun Liverpool, Nicole Parry, Nicola Birch, Jennifer Turay
England’s children’s social care workforce is in a state of crisis, with the problem perhaps more prominent in the field of child protection. This led the Review of Children’s Social Care to call f...
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Enhancing social work education: a praxis-based teaching case study on integrating simulation through experiential learning theory Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Gabriella McBride
This teaching case study takes the reader through a Master in Social Work (MSW) practice course in a northeast city during the 2022–2023 academic year. With the receipt of a small teaching grant, v...
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Learning from casework in child protection: the view from within Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Jude Harrison, Steven Hodge, Sarojni Choy
Child protection is a complex and sensitive practice. The core responsibility is the care and protection of children and young people who have been subject to, or who are at risk from abuse and neg...
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The use of poetry in form of haikus as a tool for critical reflection Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Orlanda Harvey, Louise Oliver
Critical reflection is an integral part of social work education and practice, yet it is widely understood to be hard to learn, teach, and assess. We introduced the use of poetry in the form of hai...
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Radicalisation, extremism and social work practice: minority Muslim youth in the West Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Zulfaidil, Ramadhan Jabal Primadana, Muhammad Ihwanul Muslimin
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Social work in the changing welfare state. A policy analysis of active labour market policies for disadvantaged youth in Austria Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Johann Bacher
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Research ethics for students in the social science Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Shibilshad P
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Advancing social work curriculum to challenge FASD-related stigma and promote strengths-based family engagement Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Susan Evans
The need for professionals to become educated in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) has emerged as a critical topic in child and family settings. FASD is sometimes described as being entirely p...
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Social work in child care Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Haryanto, Sjaeful Anwar, Windri Wisti, Diana Yusni, Aldeva Ilhami, Muh. Aswar
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Experimental research designs in social work: theory and applications Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Hanni B. Flaherty
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Facilitating leadership exploration in MSW students through community-based participatory photovoice project Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Caitlin Caswell, Inci Yilmazli Trout, M. Candace Christensen, Shaniek Tose
While a wealth of conceptual literature attempts to describe the relationship between leadership and social work, there is a dearth of empirical research on teaching leadership skills to emerging s...
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From the classroom to the field and back: a pedagogical kit teaching social work students to complete psychosocial assessments Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Yael Hochman, Einav Segev
Despite the complexity inherent in undertaking and teaching psychosocial assessments, and although assessments are viewed as a critical component of helping relationships and a core skill in social...
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Professional identity and local realities: social work education in Ethiopia Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Ashenafi Hagos Baynesagn
The three historical eras of social work education in Ethiopia are examined in this article, with particular attention devoted to how each era began, was contextualized, and was integrated with ser...
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The journey to becoming a qualitative social work researcher: seven mile-markers Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Dafna Tener
This paper deals with the meaningful relationships between qualitative research and social work. It seeks to explore seven mile-markers through which one can develop the identity of a qualitative s...
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Integrating the Grand Challenges for social work into an undergraduate capstone course Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Dawn Apgar, Lori Zerrusen
Over the last decade, social work has focused on identifying widespread societal problems that should drive research, teaching, and practice in the coming years. There are very few scholarly articl...
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Political ideology and social work Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Pretty Olan Oktavia Sihite, Haryanto, Harmaen, La Ode Muhamad Iqbal, Syaipul Hari Baharuddin
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Challenges of social work field practicum and professionalization in Bangladesh Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Md. Ismail Hossain, Muhammad Shariful Islam, Isahaque Ali, Azlinda Azman
Social work education and practices began in Bangladesh more than half a century ago. Yet, it has not attained the professional status demanded by the country. This paper aims to examine the challe...
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Social work education in South Korea in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Serim Lee, JongSerl Chun
Social work education in South Korea has significantly advanced since 1947. However, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and COVID-19 have significantly altered contemporary Korean social work educati...
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Spatial issues in social work education in Chile: curriculum analysis of universities and professional institutes Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Felipe Saravia-Cortés, Víctor Orellana-Bravo, Francisca Díaz, María Luisa Carrasco
In response to the growing use of spatial concepts in social work, this article addresses their incorporation in the curriculum of undergraduate programmes and the differences among diverse types o...
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Immersive virtual environments as a tool to improve confidence and role expectancy in prospective social work students: a proof-of-concept study Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Paul Best, Gerry Marshall, Jessica Cushnan, Paul McCafferty, Nichola Booth
This paper explores the use of immersive technology in social work education, specifically through a virtual simulation called ‘Branch-VR’ designed for young people taking part in a Widening Partic...
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Digital competence in social work education: readiness for practice Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Siri Fjeldheim, Lise C. Kleppe, Edda Stang, Blanka Støren-Vaczy
In line with the digital turn in service provision, social work students should acquire relevant knowledge and skills, preparing them for work within digitalized welfare services. In Norway, these ...
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Barriers to and enablers for the success of postgraduate students in social work Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Lizane Wilson, Jessica Pool
All over the world, higher education institutions (HEIs) are concerned about low enrollment, delayed completion rates, non-completion, and the subsequent smaller number of graduates of Master’s and...
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Addressing gun violence through social work education Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Alicia Hawley-Bernardez, Joy Patton, Carol Meza, Greg Gibbons
Gun violence is a critical public health issue in the United States, with firearms involved in over 48,000 deaths in 2021. However, social workers receive limited training to address the risks and ...
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Teaching note: assessing social work students on placement: a model for professional competence Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Denise MacDermott
This teaching note describes how the author (a practice teacher and university lecturer) retrospectively considered and applied the work of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger; with a specific focus on si...
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Attitude and readiness of utilizing virtual reality simulations in interprofessional education to facilitate prompt and safe hospital discharges in England Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Sharif Haider, Ann Flynn, J. E. Simpson
It can be challenging in England to provide interprofessional education (IPE) in hospitals due to practitioners’ availability, high workload, difficulty to backfill, and training costs. Furthermore...
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The role of formal supportive relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for social work education Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Yafit Sulimani-Aidan
The COVID-19 pandemic and its implications may provide a unique lens through which to explore formal relationships and their role in the lives of at-risk young adults. As such, based on the framewo...
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Developing your communication skills in social work (Second Edition) Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 D. Mohanambigai, N. Rajavel
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Being, knowing and doing: aligning ontology, epistemology, and axiology to develop an account of social work as practice Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Mark Smith, Trish McCulloch, Maura Daly
This article takes as its starting point reflections from social work academics at a Scottish university around persistent tensions between the nature of social work practice and the ways in which ...
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Role-playing as a method for the improvement of ethical competences in social work: a case study Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 M. José Gómez Poyato, Raquel Lozano, Marta Mira-Aladrén, Diana Valero
Role-playing is an active learning methodology that is increasingly playing a central role in the educational process: in our case, in the subject of Ethics Applied to Social Work. We present resea...
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Social work students in Aotearoa New Zealand: the impacts of financial hardship on mental and social wellbeing Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Allen Bartley, Liz Beddoe, Ladan Hashemi, Mehdi Rahimi, Sophia de Fossard
In Aotearoa New Zealand, approximately 3000 people are enrolled in a recognized social work education programme at any one time. A collaboration between researchers at two social work education pro...
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Practicing up: Teaching social workers how to influence authority figures Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Brenda D. Smith, Heather Headley Resendez
Social workers often practice in challenging organizational contexts that hinder the ability to uphold social work values and ethics and empower clients. This article introduces the concept of ‘pra...
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Mental health and biomedical neoliberalism: can creativity make space for social justice? Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Emma Tseris, Sacha Jamieson
In this article, we introduce a creative assessment task developed for postgraduate social work students studying critical perspectives on mental health. We discuss how moving beyond the constraint...
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“This is about heart knowledge”: the disconnect between anti-racist knowledge and practice among white students in social work education Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Justin E. Lerner, Angie Kim
Our study conducted 11 focus groups with 41 students enrolled in a school of social work at a large public university about their experiences with anti-racism social work education. White students ...
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MSW program directors in the United States: a scoping survey of responsibilities, preparation, and support Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Susan Mapp, Needha Boutté-Queen
A survey of Master of Social Work (MSW) program directors in the United States investigated their current role including their environment, tasks and preparation, and support. Most respondents were...
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Creative critical reflection through poetry and prose Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Beth Moran
Artefacts considered in this paper include poetry and prose from my previous doctoral research with social work students; exploring how they experience, express, and manage the emotional content of...