Health social work is often described as a blurred profession, as a work area based on an interdisciplinary field of science with an unclear knowledge foundation of its own. This study describes an...

Social work as a profession is an opportune leader for a global vision that encompasses collective futures for all. This vision is one of a 2nd-century social work profession advancing practice 2.0...

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Globalization exerts its influence on every nation and impacts all members of society, whether through direct or indirect means. Now more than ever, U.S. social workers must implement cultural comp...

This study explores social work students’ perspectives on human rights in their practice, drawing on focus group interviews from universities in Germany, Poland, and the Philippines. Focus group di...

Encompassing human rights-based approaches within mental health service delivery is essential to supporting the recovery of service users, their family members/carers/supporters. This is being incr...

This study examines the nature of competency required of social work students in qualitative and quantitative methods as well as the preferred learning period duration for the acquisition of profic...

Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Vol. 43, No. 5, 2024)

While the assessment of students on social work placement has attracted a sizable body of research and commentary, on-campus assessments have attracted less attention. With advances in artificial i...

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This article describes a teaching session focused on the gap between rights-as-law and rights-as-mentality in social work. The session has run in various forms with BSc, MA and PQ social work stude...

Social workers face unique occupational stressors that contribute to disproportionately high rates of burnout. This situation worsened over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, causing social work ...

With increasing numbers of international students across the globe, it is essential that social work education continually adapts and innovates in ways that are inclusive of and responsive to this ...

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The study presents findings about social work leadership from a formative dialogue research project following an ongoing service development project in a Norwegian social services office. From obse...

Empathy is pivotal to social work practice when interacting with clients, patients and their families. It is thus also important in social work education. Still, empathy as a skill is usually addre...

Fostering cross-cultural learning is an important component in social work education in Australia. However, cross-cultural learning competencies are often criticized for lacking meaningful engageme...

Although the assessment of students via direct observation of practice is a regulatory requirement of social work qualifying programmes in England, there is relative freedom in exactly how this pol...

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The engagement of social workers with human rights is deeply embedded in the history of the profession and discipline. Therefore, incorporating human rights into social work curricula is paramount....

The success of any project depends on the stakeholder participation. There are many methods by which stakeholder participation is ensured in a project. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is an app...

This paper reports findings from pedagogic research evaluating the impact of the involvement of survivors from the World Trade Center attacks in New York City in 2001 in trauma-specific social work...

This study examines the factors contributing to the low utilization of quantitative research approaches among social work research students. A census sampling technique was employed to conduct a su...

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Climate surveys hold the potential to advance equity in organizations, serving to generate quantitative data on the depth and breadth of climate-related issues, with its forte being those related t...

In this paper, the authors take the position that human rights are not a principal discipline of American social work. Rather, within the United States, social work is a profession that makes the f...

Social work education aims to prepare students to respond to the challenges they will face in their future practice. Social work students are a rich source of knowledge about teaching and learning ...

In this exploratory mixed-methods study, we applied Fletcher, Davis Comer, and Dunlap’s conceptual framework of Virtual Holding Environments (VHEs), spaces where supportive relationships can be dev...

Focusing on the integration of human rights into the Ethiopian Bachelor of Social Work programme, this paper presents a study of students’ understanding of human rights by employing a mixed-methods...

Schools play a crucial in the lives of children, families and communities and are increasingly used by social work programmes in England for practice learning. This qualitative study involved in-de...

Focusing on children’s right to participate, as outlined in Article 12 of the 1989 Children’s Rights Convention, there is a growing body of research on involving children and young people in partic...

In various countries, the digital competences of social work students are inadequately addressed within existing curricular frameworks. Addressing this gap necessitates a more nuanced understanding...

Social workers benefit from increasing their skills and knowledge working with a diverse range of communities and populations, particularly among racialized and marginalized communities. This study...

Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Ambedkar henceforth) is not merely known as the chief architect of the Indian constitution, social activist, philosopher, and social reformer but also as a great human ri...

The accreditation of social work education is a vital issue, given its strong connection to the outcomes of social work education and effectiveness of social work practice as a whole. Thus, this st...

The aim of this study is to examine levels of motivation, wellbeing, and employment preferences of newly qualified social workers who graduated in 2022. A mixed-method study design was employed usi...

The authors’ purpose is to support the theoretical foundation for active engagement in environmental issues in the field of social work. The concept of this article is that environmental understand...

Research literacy for graduate social work students may be enhanced by approaching the process of teaching research methods from an experiential learning perspective. This article provides an overv...

Previous international research indicates that social workers may lack the competence to comfortably involve children in child protection processes. Implementation of stricter competence requiremen...

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To improve inclusion in one social work teaching department, a ‘Students-as-Partners’ project employed four social work students with lived experience of neurodiversity to work in partnership with ...

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Promoting social justice, fighting against social inequalities, and minimizing the risks and dangers faced by society’s most vulnerable groups are the aims of socio-educational intervention actions...

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...

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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This paper critically examines the discursive practices used by secular social work educators when teaching ultra-Orthodox students, whose strict interpretations of Jewish religious law often clash...

An Enquiry Action Learning sequence was undertaken by MSc social work students at a Scottish University as part of a decision-making module, to assist them to work together in gathering information...

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...

As responsive social work education is about meeting the dynamic needs of learners, social work educators engage with innovative approaches that promote teaching and learning (TAL). The purpose of ...

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...

Social workers within the United States (US) have addressed food issues since the profession’s origin in the late 1800s. Today, the acute problem of food insecurity continues to concern social work...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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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