Recruitment to the Profession

Not Just Play ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 134-148
Author(s):  
Meryl Nadel
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Values ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Social Work Program

“Recruitment to the Profession” discusses the key role that nonprofit camps have long played in the recruitment of new social workers. Early efforts were uneven and uncoordinated. During the 1950s and 1960s, shortages in the field impelled recruitment efforts, culminating in the National Commission for Social Work Careers and its recruitment committees. One such committee and its Summer Experience in Social Work Program are detailed. Camps provided paid summer jobs, supervision, a seminar class, and a final two-day workshop, all with the goal of testing interest in and potential for social work. Social Work Seminar, the recruitment program of Camp Wel-Met, is described. The camp experience along with social work values conveyed by camp staff often inspire or confirm a decision to enter the profession. The chapter concludes with reminiscences from social workers about camp experiences and their choice of social work as a career.

GeroRiching a BSW Curriculum: More Carrot, Less Stick

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Wade Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Institutional Culture ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
American Population ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Social Work Program

With the aging of the American population, all social workers, regardless of their field of practice, are increasingly finding themselves working with elderly clients or with clients' aging family members. A number of schools and departments of social work are actively engaging in a new emphasis to prepare future practitioners to meet the growing challenge and are seeking effective methods of enriching their curricula. This article examines current literature on institutional change that suggests effective curriculum change strategies fit institutional culture. It then reports the efforts of one rural BSW program to infuse its curriculum with content on aging, and demonstrates how the selected strategies fit the institutional culture of that social work program.

scholarly journals Hitting the Ground Running

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea M. Newberry-Koroluk
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
First Year ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
The Social

This paper explores how the popular use of the expression “hitting the ground running” in reference to beginning social work practice draws upon military imagery and reflects neo-conservative expectations of first-year social workers.  Discussion of the international and Canadian definitions of social work, key social work values, the neo-conservative paradigm, and the role of language in understanding human experiences provides context to this analysis.  Ultimately, it is argued that it is in the best interests of the social work profession for the phrase hitting the ground running to be abandoned (or used critically) when making reference to first-year social workers, and a new metaphor is suggested that could take its place in the social work lexicon.

scholarly journals Tumbler in Tidal Wave: The Professional Stance of Social Workers under Managerialism

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Hung Sing Lai
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Tidal Wave ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
Social Welfare Services ◽  
The Social

<p>Since the concept of Managerialism has been introduced to the social welfare services in Hong Kong, the ecology of social welfare sector has changed drastically. The operation of most organizations adopts a business inclined practice to run their services under the new competitive environment. Consequently, management that is originally supposed to be an auxiliary servant to facilitate the delivery of services has eventually become the master to be served. Most social workers working under such climate find it difficult to exercise their professional functions as they are demanded to fulfill a great deal of managerial duties. Worse off, some appear to have lost their professional identity. This paper is to reveal the struggles of social workers under Managerialism and explore strategies for social workers to live with Managerialism in a way without losing their professional stance through conducting a qualitative research in Hong Kong. The result of this research identifies eight strategies: “reasserting the professional identity”, “realizing the social work values”, “discerning the first and foremost tasks”, “actualizing professional integrity”, “evoking team solidarity”, “exercising personal influence, “performing collaborative resistance”, and “practicing self-reflection”. Since the core of social work is the social work values and to sustain such values demands social workers having a solid professional stance, the suggested strategies derived from this research can be served as a reference for social workers to withstand the assault from the tidal wave of Managerialism and stand firm again on their professional stance, like a tumbler!</p>

scholarly journals What do social work students think social work research is?

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
Anita Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Social Work Values

In New Zealand, social work students often undertake social work research training as part of their first qualification in social work. The focus of this article is to consider what social work students think social work research is and whether they think social work research should be part of normal, everyday practice or not. Forty-three social work students from Otago University participated in a small research project during 2009 aimed at exploring their constructions of social work research. They emphasised that social work research should be compatible with social work values like empowerment and social justice, and bring about positive change of benefit of service users. 

Eaching Human Sexuality and Social Work Values

1982 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy D. Johnson ◽  
David A. Shore
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Social Work Values

Research Note—A Pilot Cyber Counseling Course in a Graduate Social Work Program

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Mishna ◽  
Lea Tufford ◽  
Charlene Cook ◽  
Marion Bogo
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Social Work Program ◽  
Cyber Counseling ◽  
Graduate Social Work
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