scholarly journals Developing the relationship between reflective practice and social work values

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Graham Ixer
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Education ◽  
The Relationship

There has been considerable literature published on reflection yet despite this, very little research on reflection and more importantly, understanding on what is reflection. This article looks at the context of reflection in the way it came into the social work education language and how it is now part of established training in both social work and other professions. Yet despite this we are still no further on in understanding the complex nature of reflection. However, in a small-scale research project the key characteristics of moral judgement were identified as essential to the process of reflection. The author looks at the relationship between reflective practice and social work values and concludes with key guidelines for the practice teacher and student. The concept of reflection and in particular, its application to practice, applies across health professions as well as social work.

Against social work values: their origins, nature and problems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Historical Origins ◽  
Over Time

‘Social work values’ are a feature of contemporary English social work and social work education that, over time, have become so established that they are now accepted with little questioning. This lack of reflection about social work values is probed, beginning with a historical excavation to reveal the background to their emergence from the social democratic welfare state, via critical and radical perspectives, and the process that led to their official embrace. After completing the historical excavation, the enduring influence of their historical origins is noted, their nature is interrogated and the problems they pose are explored.

Navigating the Social Jungle: Using Computer-Mediated Mentoring to Enhance Undergraduates' Professional Identity

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Cascio ◽  
Janice Gasker
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Comparison Groups ◽  
Work Education

One of the greatest challenges to undergraduate social work education is helping students embrace social work values and develop professional identity. As undergraduates, students are at a developmental stage where the process of identity formation is crucial. This study explores the possibility of enhancing traditional teaching methods with computer-mediated mentoring. A section of graduate students in a second-year practice class mentored a section of undergraduates in a beginning practice class in a semester-long e-mail communication. Following the mentoring experience, the undergraduates demonstrated a measurably greater identification with social work values, marking a significant change in professional identity that was not matched by comparison groups. Those aspects of the mentoring experience that seemed most important to the undergraduates are reported and suggestions for replicating such a project are provided.

Lewis, Harold

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Reisch
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Hunter College ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
School Of Social Work ◽  
Work Education

Harold Lewis (1920–2003), social worker and activist, was Dean of Hunter College School of Social Work for twenty years. He published widely on social work values and ethics, epistemology of practice, child welfare, social welfare administration, and social work education.

scholarly journals Fifty years of social work education: Analysis of motivations and outcomes

2020 ◽  
pp. 146801732091160
Author(s):  
Alice Butler-Warke ◽  
Janine Bolger
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Work Values ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
North East ◽  
Preparedness For Practice ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
Work Education

Summary This article uses the 50th anniversary of social work education provision at one of north-east Scotland’s universities as an opportunity to reflect on social work education outcomes and motivations for undertaking training. This empirical assessment is based on the detailed responses to questionnaires and interviews with social work graduates who studied between 1968 and 2012 to evaluate social work training and education among graduates. We use the Kirkpatrick model to evaluate social work education. Findings We highlight the combination of prior experience with social work and a sense of altruism that served to motivate students to engage in training. We discuss the levels of preparedness for practice based on training and note that it is the combination of teaching and placements that benefits students most. We reflect on the centrality of a common set of social work values that arise from a period of introspection during education, and we show that these values are incorporated into both professional and personal life. Applications We show that ‘big picture’ and evaluations of social work education are important in order to orient social work education in line with political and social change. We also suggest that educators should be cognisant of the importance of personal development and growth that are central to the training of social workers. Rather than seeing personal development as a by-product of social work education, we argue that training that strengthens social work values of justice and empathy is imperative.

Ideological Themes in Family Policy

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Definition Of

In this exploration of family policy, the author identifies the basic assumptions that shape differing perspectives on such policies. Focus is on the definition of the family, the privileging of certain definitions, the state-family relationship, the valuing or devaluing of the family, and the tension between familism and individualism. The social worker's role in shaping family policy to reflect social work values is examined.

Values: Passing on the Torch without Burning the Runner

1981 ◽  
Vol 62 (10) ◽  
pp. 579-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorinda N. Noble ◽  
John E. King
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Field Placement ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
Work Education

Viewing social work values and ethics as a torch held high to unify the profession increases the importance of transmitting them to students. One of the major organizing factors of social work education should be the teaching of values and ethics, and this effort should be intensified in field placement programs.

IMPACTS OF SARS CRISIS ON SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS — REFLECTION ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
CHING-MAN LAM ◽  
HUNG WONG ◽  
TSE-FONG TERRY LEUNG
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Direct Exposure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Education ◽  
The Relationship

The impacts of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) on the social work students were examined using a combined quantitative and qualitative method. A survey was conducted with 114 social work undergraduate students at The Chinese University of Hong Kong to assess their perception of the impacts of SARS on them at personal and professional level. Four focus groups had been conducted to examine the social work students' interpretation and their reflection of their experience. Results show that the SARS crisis has positive impacts on social work students. The findings indicate that students with direct exposure to SARS perceived themselves as becoming more appreciative in attitude and have greater involvement and devotion to the social work profession. Moreover, the result shows that three variables — recognition of risk, commitment and devotion, and professional reflection are positively correlated. The findings articulate the relationship between experience (risk), profession reflection and meaning generation (commitment and devotion). The findings of this study provide us with insights to rethink on our social work education.

scholarly journals The Future of Global Social Work

10.18060/74 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Miriam Potocky-Tripodi ◽  
Tony Tripodi
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
Social Work Values ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Social

This article addresses the social work within the context of internationalism and globalization. Based on an examination of published documents on international social work in the past decade, the authors make an evidence-based projection of what is likely to occur in the future of global social work. Finally, the authors make a social work values-based projection of what should occur.

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