Educating students to think critically about theory and practice is no simple task. Performative approaches, using the arts as a catalyst for learning and teaching, can be useful to develop student...

Adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse and neglect, have been shown to have longstanding negative consequences on a child’s development and outcomes. Studies have noted that there is variation in how youth in child welfare respond to adversity, yet few studies have examined the psychometrics of measures of resilience in this population. In particular, the 14-item Resilience Scale (RS-14) is a

We are witnessing how humanitarian crises inflict unimaginable human misery. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, social workers were called upon as first responders who functioned interdependentl...

Failure to thrive (FTT) is a DSM-5/ICD-10 diagnosis which describes infants and children who fail to grow within expected norms. The causes for poor growth are multifactorial and often include psyc...

In this article, a communication framework of Connection First is presented to close the empathy gap in mainstream health care, including palliative and end-of-life care. Expanding beyond biomedici...

Theory is essential to the professional knowledge base of social work, and the ability to understand, apply, and analyze theory in practice is central to professional capabilities and competence. T...

Social work, a practice-based profession focused on social justice, is increasingly recognizing sexual wellbeing/health as a practice area that students need to build competence. Yet there remains ...

This study examined retention and its relationship to mental health, substance use, and social determinants of health in a randomized clinical trial of a behavioral HIV/sexually transmitted infecti...

Black Alaskans face serious barriers to health care. This paper reports on qualitative results of a health needs assessment to understand the health challenges facing Black Alaskans. Utilizing expl...

Social work ethics is vital to social work education and professional development. However, traditional didactic teaching does not always translate to internalization of social work ethics, and few...

This article presents a detailed history of the development of social work education in Northern Ireland from 1962 to 2020 as a chronology spanning 58 years. Policy mapping was used as a model to b...

This article presents empirical findings about children’s experiences in the closed childcare institution service (CCIS) in Estonia and the assistance children receive from their own perspectives and those of parents and practitioners. The study draws on the lived experiences of 12 children/young people, four parents, and 26 practitioners working with children in need in the CCIS system through interviews

This article evaluates a collaboration between social work academics and educational psychologists using Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP) to support the development of social work students...

The aim of this study was to explore students’ learning experiences from an online workshop focusing on digital storytelling: an active learning method in which students create a digital story. At ...

Due to recent racial injustices in the United States and globally, there is an urgent need for curricular reform in social work education. The profession requires creative tools, techniques and met...

Social workers have emerged as leaders within Addiction Consult Services (ACS) due to their ability to provide a wide range of services, from crisis work and brief therapeutic interventions to conn...

While social work education can provide students with rewarding and satisfying experiences, there can also be stressful and demanding requirements from academic and placement work and personal circ...

The purpose of this scoping literature review was to examine the available evidence on the discussion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/gender diverse, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) population...

This paper describes how a familiar exercise, known as the ‘Privilege Walk’, or Step Forward or Back line activity, could be used to develop s understanding of the skills and knowledge needed, prio...

The prestige of social work is a challenging topic for social workers. For the purpose of this study, prestige is treated as a position on a scale, which then influences the symbolic power of the h...

In recent decades, a growing number of professions have integrated online simulation approaches into their higher education programs with a view to optimizing graduates’ practice readiness. The exi...

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Continuous refugee crises have led to increasing numbers of social workers working in the migration field, yet the subject is under-represented in social work curricula in many European countries. ...

Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)

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Existing evidence supports simulation for improving competency in social work education. This evidence has focused almost exclusively on simulation outcomes with little attention given to best prac...

Continuous professional development (CPD) underpins safe, effective practice by ensuring that social workers acquire and sustain up-to-date knowledge and skills. Additionally, CPD is critical to th...

The launch of ChatGPT sent ripples across higher education, particularly in attempts to detect its use by students using it to complete assignments. This paper reflects on the past semester of ‘lif...

This paper describes a collaboration between a university and a local child welfare agency in the development and delivery of a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) child welfare course featuring lived ex...

Critical social work practice should transcend across micro, mezzo, and macro levels, and it is a social work educator’s responsibility to foster skills that are contextualized and connected to soc...

This article examines the urgency and centrality of relational social work with adults. It discusses the relevance and potential of social pedagogy for empowerment and social justice and introduces...

This paper details an exercise used to collaboratively develop guidelines that support establishing classroom norms. It is one that has been used with practice-based classes that require students t...

Suicide is complex and multifactorial, with social, cultural, and economic components, exacerbated by inequalities, social injustice, marginalization important contexts, along with the immediate pr...

Although, arguably, the origins of social work in the UK have been closely aligned to community development in the past few decades, social work has occupied a bureaucratic landscape focusing prima...

Cyberbullying, which has become more widespread with individuals’ increased use of technology, occurs when someone or a group of people intentionally harms by using technology. Millions of adolescents spend time in the online environment, yet little is known about the effects of psychological resilience, self-efficacy, and metacognition on the risk of cyberbullying. A total of 574 high school students

A large and growing number of colleges and universities have invested in the development of campus support programs (CSPs) that specifically aim to support students with experience in foster care (SEFC). However, the evidence base for CSPs remains quite limited. The current study seeks to contribute to the literature with a mixed methods evaluation of two CSPs in Georgia, one at a 2-year technical

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Within social work education there has been extensive interest and use of simulation for learning purposes. In recent years, this interest has broadened to the use of Virtual Reality Simulation (VR...

Purpose The aim of this study is to analyze mothers’ narratives about their children’s life situation while living at domestic violence shelters in Sweden. More precisely, the analysis focuses on determining what aspects are highlighted as being most important for the children’s living situation during their stay. Method This study is based on interviews with mothers who have experience of living at

In this paper, a teaching and research team discusses the importance of teaching, and supporting, critical reflection on practice (CRoP) skills to graduate level social work students within a Canad...

Due to the impact of natural and human-caused disasters, for example, climate change, social workers are increasingly needed at the frontline of disaster management. However, some social workers fe...

The involvement of people with lived experience of social work intervention is a crucial aspect of social work education and is firmly embedded in social work programmes within the UK. The benefit ...

ABSTRACT Traditional social work education in the UK has been successful in terms of widening participation, although there are some threats to this. Within the post 92 university sector in particular, social work students come from a diverse range of backgrounds. Some of these students will not have had positive experiences of formative education or would have been subject to state discrimination

ABSTRACT Technology-based immersive learning is an emerging field in social work training and education. This article outlines how findings from a published research project about long-term relationship-based practices in child protection were conveyed to newly qualified social workers using 360-degree videos as part of an experiential learning design. The rationale, production process and the learning

ABSTRACT During the pandemic, social workers have faced increasingly complex client needs, and are simultaneously undergoing transformative changes in practice with the rapid uptake of digital technologies. To make the best use of these technologies, practitioners require new knowledge, skills, and competencies, yet to date, the development of digital competencies has not formed a curriculum priority

ABSTRACT Recent materials from the U.S. Council on Social Work Education note that regardless of some successes, racial equity in higher education has not significantly progressed. Recent scholarship has noted racial discrimination in social work academia. However, we were not able to find any publications about racial disproportionality in social work education grading or educational attainment. In

ABSTRACT South Africa is recognized as the most unequal society in the world. In the National Development Plan 2030 in 2012 the South African government has called on social workers to participate in transformation by addressing inequality. A pursuit of social justice highlights the need for a social work curriculum that is transformative in nature and cultivates an anti-colonial Global South approach

Juvenile Justice (JJ) involvement disproportionately impacts Black youth. While there is literature on the relationship between both connectedness and the perceived neighborhood environment (PNE) on mental health among Black youth, few studies focus on these aspects among Black youth in the juvenile justice system – particularly among those adjudicated guilty as serious offenders. Purpose: The current

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ABSTRACT In Australia, international students have continued to enroll in social work programs for more than a decade. While there is an emerging interest in international students’ learning during field placement, their specific needs in the supervisory space have been largely neglected in the social work education literature. This article examines international students’ experience of field placement

The aim of the study was to examine the role of executive functioning on both alcohol and illegal substance use among a longitudinal sample of adolescent offenders. Time spent involved in the justice system places individuals at risk for substance use disorders, along with housing issues and an increased risk for future delinquent behavior. Executive function, or our decision-making processes, plays

ABSTRACT Social work around the world has been, uncritically, defined from a mostly white western perspective influenced predominantly by the profession’s development in Europe and North America. Western values and epistemologies have been taken as a given. However, with the increasing influence of social constructionism and post-colonialism, there is growing acceptance that epistemologies are cultural

ABSTRACT This article focuses on sharing a teaching experience implemented by the Social Work faculty of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain) with the students in the last year of the Social Work degree, whose practical training was interrupted due to the covid -19 lockdown. Considering this scenario and maintaining contact with the students through the virtual campus, the

ABSTRACT Social work students on practice learning placement undertake a range of learning activities and are expected to reflect independently on their strengths and areas for development within an intervention to develop their knowledge and skills. This is often supplemented by reflective discussion in social work student supervision. Nevertheless, supervision is undertaken in a private space, so

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