Failed by the System: The Views of Young Care Leavers on Their Educational Experiences, Barnardo's Policy and Research Unit, and Supporting Children in Public Care in Schools: A Resource for Trainers of Teachers, Carers and Social Workers. By John Holland and Catherine Randerson

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-49
Author(s):  
Max Biddulph
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
John Holland

Becoming a Social Worker: BSW Social Workers' Educational Experiences

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Sarah Hessenauer ◽  
Charles Zastrow
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Work Programs ◽  
Social Work Programs ◽  
Learning From Others

In this exploratory qualitative study, researchers examined key educational experiences bachelor- level social workers identified as being most helpful in transitioning to current social work careers. Twenty students from CSWE- accredited social work programs, having worked in a social work agency for a minimum of 4 months, voluntarily participated. The researchers conducted one- on- one interviews in which social workers were asked to describe educational experiences and beliefs that supported their transition to careers in social work. The data from these interviews were coded to identify themes to aid educators in examining variables significant in the education of future social workers. These themes include learning occurring in social work courses, self- awareness, learning in the field, and learning from others.

Investigating ‘care leaver’ identity: A narrative analysis of personal experience stories

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Evans
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Personal Experience Narratives ◽  
Care Leaver ◽  
Personal Experience Stories ◽  
Level Analysis

Abstract People who spent time in public care as children are often represented as ‘care leavers’. This paper investigates how ‘care leaver’ is discursively constructed as a group identity, by analyzing 18 written personal experience stories from several charity websites by people identified or who self-identify as care leavers. Several approaches to narrative analysis are used: a clause-level analysis based on Labovʼs code scheme; the identification of turning points; an analysis of ‘identity work’; and an analysis of subject positions relative to ‘master narratives’. The findings from each of the methods are then combined to reveal how intertextual, narrative-structural, and contextual factors combine to constitute a common care leaver discourse. This forms the basis for a characterization of ‘care leaver’ group identity as ‘survivors of the system’. The findings also reveal how ‘care leaver’ as type, including stereotype, influences how identity is constructed in the personal experience narratives.

Developing Leaving Care Services Tapping the Potential of Foster Carers

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Wade
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Health It ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Substitute Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Key Dimensions

This paper by Jim Wade draws on the findings of a four-year study of specialist leaving care services, funded by the Department of Health. It situates moving on from substitute care or accommodation in the context of broader youth transitions to adulthood. Three key dimensions of transition for a sample of care leavers are discussed: the timing and nature of their moving on; their early education and employment careers; and their ability to develop networks of social support. Issues arising from the support offered by foster carers and social workers are also explored. Finally, the author makes a case for foster carers to have a more central place in the development of leaving care services.

‘I remember thinking, why isn’t there someone to help me? Why isn’t there someone who can help me make sense of what I’m going through?’

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Care Leavers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Youth Transitions

Recent years have seen a shift away from youth transitions being understood as a linear progression towards conventional goals. Instead, it is now argued that youth transitions tend to be highly chaotic, often involving non-linear and fragmented movement between dependence and independence. This article discusses how young people leaving the state care system are seldom afforded the luxury of a more gradual and non-linear transition. Instead, for them, the possibilities of adult futures remain marked by chronic and continuing exclusion as they move abruptly into ‘instant adulthood’, with no opportunity to return to the child welfare system should they find themselves unable to make it on their own. Drawing from findings of 30 in-depth interviews with young care leavers, social workers and further and higher education institutions in the UK, the article considers the experiences of young people leaving state care, including their perceived lack of ‘care’, and the importance they place on unconditional and emotional support and contact.

scholarly journals THE PREPARATION OF POLISH SOCIAL WORKERS TO WORK WITH PERSON EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Joanna Małgorzata Łukasik ◽  
Norbert Gerard Pikuła ◽  
Katarzyna Agata Jagielska
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
New Challenges

Today’s social worker has to face many new challenges that arise due to socio-economic and cultural changes. One of the extremely important and difficult areas of social workers' job is to work with people who are experiencing domestic violence. The aim of the following article is to show previous experience in the field of theoretical and practical social worker's training in work with people experiencing domestic violence and the difficulties arising because of the imperfections of the system (i.e. due to lack of appropriate diagnostic tools, intervention strategies and supporting institutions). To show the weaknesses of education, a secondary analysis of the data (including programs, study plans) was made and expert interviews with employees who undertake work with a person experiencing violence were conducted. The analysis allowed to propose a concept of social workers’ training in working with a person experiencing domestic violence (child, woman, elderly person), based on best practices, i.e. from Israel and Canada. 

Feminist social work research engaging with poststructural ideas

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 599-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Wendt ◽  
Jane Boylan
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Violence Conjugale ◽  
Travail Social ◽  
Services Sociaux

English This article draws on two empirical studies, one with women who had experienced domestic violence and the other with children and young people in public care. It presents reflections by two feminist social workers on how poststructuralism influenced their research practices in social work. French Cet article fait appel à deux études empiriques; la première auprès de femmes victimes de violence conjugale et la seconde auprès d'enfants et d'adolescents pris en charge par les services sociaux. Il présente les réflexions de deux travailleuses sociales féministes sur la façon dont le poststructuralisme a influencé leurs recherches en travail social. Spanish Este artículo llama la atención sobre dos estudios empíricos, uno con mujeres que tuvieron experiencias de violencia doméstica y el otro con niños y gente joven con cuidados públicos. Presenta reflexiones de dos trabajadoras sociales feministas, sobre cómo el post-estructuralismo ha influenciado sus prácticas de investigación en trabajo social.

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