A Study on the Validity of Reflective Practice Scale Among Social Workers on Community Welfare Centers

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1493-1508
Author(s):  
Mijin Park
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers

Exploring the Development of Reflective Capacity in Young People

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Hickson ◽  
Jennifer Lehmann ◽  
Fiona Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Story Reading ◽  
Reflective Capacity

People use reflection and reflective practice for many different reasons, including for self-care and to make sense of their experiences. In this study, social workers spoke about how they learned to be reflective, with many participants describing activities in their childhood that developed their reflective capacity. The aim of this article is to apply these ideas and examine the factors that enhance reflective capacity in children and young people. This research was part of a PhD study that involved interviews with 35 social workers in USA, Canada, UK and Australia. This exploratory study found that activities like story reading and asking children to reflect on their behaviour are early steps in the process of becoming reflective, but this needs to be followed up with conversations that deconstruct assumptions to make sense of experiences and explore multiple perspectives. This research is important for health and human service workers and others who want to develop reflective capacity in children and young people, particularly for children subject to disadvantage who need to overcome trauma and adversities.

scholarly journals Māori social work views and practices of rapport building with rangatahi Māori

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Mooney
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Community Mental Health Services ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Rapport Building

This article presents the results of a qualitative study that explored Māori social workers’ perspectives of working to establish rapport with rangatahi Māori in community mental health services. The research was conducted using a social constructionist perspective, informed and guided by Māori-centred research principles. Six Māori social workers from different parts of the country volunteered to participate in semi-structured interviews. These face-to-face interviews were designed after reviewing current literature and were guided by a practice framework that enabled the voices of the Māori social workers to be heard, eliciting in detail where their views have come from. The findings from the research showed that Māori social workers view rapport as essential in their practice and therefore they practise in a way that facilitates this. They utilise values and beliefs in their practice, integrated with a Māori worldview, that contribute towards rapport building with youth and also with their whänau. Reflective practice is used constantly in order to maintain ethical practice. The practice implications are also discussed; that an understanding of how Māori social workers view and practise rapport can be beneficial, that there is a need for whānau involvement and that this can enhance rapport with rangatahi, that an inherent valuing of rangatahi is key and finally that reflective practice is essential for Māori social work professional and personal development.

scholarly journals Continuing professional development of registered social workers in New Zealand

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Beddoe ◽  
Jan Duke
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Practice

Continuing professional development (CPD) is a significant feature of contemporary practice in most professions. In New Zealand, the Social Workers Registration Board (SWRB) is empowered under legislation to set expectations for CPD. Initially NZ-registered social workers were expected to undertake 150 hours of CPD activities across a three-year period. A random audit undertaken in 2010 found that social workers were not planning their CPD activities in a purposeful way (Duke, 2012), and were struggling to meet the target and as a consequence the requirements were reduced. A content analysis of CPD logs was undertaken in order to provide a snapshot of CPD activities of 84 randomly selected registered social workers. Findings demonstrate that, while a broad range of activities were undertaken by social workers, there was only weak evidence for the enhancement of reflective practice. Engagement in scholarly activity and research was low among the randomly selected group.

From resilience to resistance: A reconstruction of the strengths perspective in social work practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-he Guo ◽  
Ming-sum Tsui
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Strengths Perspective ◽  
Practice Models

Many practice models in social work focus primarily on the concepts associated with resilience. By contrast, resistance and rebellion, important strategies of the disadvantaged, are often neglected by social workers in developed countries. The authors seek to reconstruct and revitalize the strengths perspective by constructing a framework that includes theories of reflective practice.

scholarly journals Discourse Analysis in Critical Social Work: From Apology to Question

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Rossiter
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Critical Social Work ◽  
Practice Problem ◽  
Vantage Points

This paper concerns the relation between critical reflective practice and social workers’ lived experience of the complicated and contradictory world of practice. I will outline how critical reflection based on discourse analysis may generate useful perspectives for practitioners who struggle to make sense of the gap between critical aspirations and practice realities, and who often mediate that gap as a sense of personal failure. I will describe two examples of discourse-based case studies, and show how the conceptual space that is opened by such reflection can help social workers gain a necessary distance from the complexity of their ambivalently constructed place. Discourse analysis can provide new vantage points from which to reconstruct practice theory in ways that are more consciously oriented to our social justice commitments. I understand these vantage points in the case studies I will describe as: 1) an historical consciousness, 2) access to understanding what is left out of discourses in use, 3) understanding of how actors are positioned in discourse, all leading to: 4) a new set of questions which expose the gap between the construction of practice possibilities and social justice values, thus allowing for a new understanding of the limitations, constraints and possibilities within the context of the practice problem.

Shame, mistakes and reflective practice in social work

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Alessandro Sicora
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Work Students ◽  
Reflective Writing ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
Defensive Reaction ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Social

Alessandro Sicora, author of the chapter, argues that even for the social workers the shift from ‘I/you made a mistake’ to ‘I am/You are a mistake’, that is ‘I am/you are a failure as a practitioner or even as a person’ is easy and common, and shame may be the resulting feeling. Even if criticism may be feedback useful for giving constructive opportunities to learn from mistakes, is more often felt by people as an attack on, and a sabotage of, their own self-confidence, and this more commonly produces shame and, consequently in many cases, a defensive reaction, rather than listening and reflecting. In these circumstances, learning from mistakes becomes almost impossible. This chapter also presents some examples of short reflective writing by social workers and social work students who made an in-depth structured reflection on some of their most relevant experiences in relation to this issue.

Reflecting on Mistakes in Practice among Social Workers in China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Lu ◽  
Juan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Reflective Awareness ◽  
Risk Management Strategies ◽  
Reflective Capacity

Abstract Reflection is widely practiced in human service professions, but little research has examined whether reflection actually translates into action and, if so, how. This article explores the possibilities and limits of reflective practice by drawing on data collected through reflective interviews with fifteen Chinese social workers on mistakes in practice. The findings demonstrate that social workers in China are aware of being reflective, even critically reflective, by pondering mistakes and failures they have encountered. Their reflections, however, do not extend to future action plans. Rather, they prefer to rely on manual-based knowledge providing explicit guidance, reflecting their developing reflective capacity and low professional identity. The article argues that social workers’ reflective awareness needs to be built up, while fully recognising the limits of reflection. To address mistakes, not only do we need to create opportunities for practitioners to reflect, but also to address the risk-management strategies of social work organisations and the independent roles that should be performed by professional social work associations in Mainland China.

Social workers’ judgments: Case study on personal experience, professional training, and practice environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087281989775
Author(s):  
Chi Kin Kwan ◽  
Ernest Wing Tak Chui
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Practice Environment ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Professional Judgments

Given the vital basis of the professional judgments made by social workers, this article proposes a framework with which to study the complex mechanisms involved in their judgments that considers three Ps: personal experience, professional training, and practice environment. Using a qualitative case study analysis, the authors apply the framework to examine the experiences of 20 Chinese social workers based in Hong Kong. Three cases have been selected to illustrate three trajectories as revealed from the 20 cases. Consistent with the notion of reflective practice, the analysis enhances the understanding of the forces behind the judgments that social workers make.

Seeing More, Better Sight: Using an Interprofessional Model of Supervision to Support Reflective Child Protection Practice Within the Health Setting

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 814-832
Author(s):  
Selina Kelly ◽  
Tracee Green
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Layered System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specialist Knowledge ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Inherent Part

Abstract Despite an extensive history in developing, delivering and leading child protection (CP) services, social workers are not an explicit part of the health-based response to CP in the UK. In this setting, a biomedical discourse dominates, with doctors and nurses fulfilling the roles of named and designated safeguarding professionals. Supervision for these health professionals, while considered necessary, has a multi-layered system of governance with no clear policies to guide its content and purpose. This article will argue that the inclusion of social work expertise in health-based CP services, through an interprofessional approach to supervision, can offer clarity to the operationalisation of supervision and support integrated service development. A model for supervision, with experienced social workers engaged to supervise named safeguarding professionals, is outlined and informed by a psychodynamic perspective. With both CP and supervision an inherent part of the social work tradition, social workers are well placed to use specialist knowledge and insight within the health setting, through supervision, to strengthen reflective practice in this complex area of service delivery.

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