共查询到20条相似文献，搜索用时 109 毫秒
1.
Eun-Kyoung Lee Pauline Collins Kevin Mahoney Kathleen McInnis-Dittrich Elizabeth Boucher 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(9):737-756
Based on a geriatric enrichment (GeroRich) effort, this study examines outcomes of infusing aging content across the master of social work (MSW) foundation curriculum. In a longitudinal research design tracking one class, there were no significant changes observed in students' levels of experience and interest in gerontological social work. Significant increases were observed in self-rated levels of gerontological knowledge and practice skills—clinical and macro. Full-time status, less gerontological experience, and higher knowledge predicted greater practice skills at the follow-up. Implications for educating the next generation of social workers to better meet the needs of older adults and their families are discussed. 相似文献
2.
The Hartford Geriatric Social Work Competency Scale II (GSWCS-II) is the gold standard for assessment of social work competency and confidence in gerontological practice behaviors, but minimal research to date has examined the factor structure of this important instrument. This study employed exploratory factor analysis to determine the underlying structure of the measure's subscales related to assessment and intervention. Results indicate that the Assessment and Intervention subscales each have two underlying components that differentiate between core geriatric competencies necessary for all social workers and competencies required for specialists in aging. Findings have implications for the evaluation of competency and self-efficacy in gerontological social work, furthering the application of the GSWCS-II for both social work education and practice settings. 相似文献
3.
The rapidly growing aging population highlights the need for social workers trained in gerontological practice and interested in work with older adults. This study, conducted in two southern states, examined recent social work graduates' perceptions of aging-related work and identified factors influencing their employment in aging related jobs. One-quarter of the graduates were employed in aging-related work. Logistics regression analysis revealed that aging-related skills, belief that work with older adults would be depressing, and having taken an undergraduate gerontology class were significant in predicting employment in aging-related jobs. Implications for social work education as well as directions for future research are discussed. 相似文献
4.
Given world aging, social workers will be involved in assisting older persons in their home-country and/or abroad in various types of governmental or nongovernmental agencies. This paper identifies potential opportunities for social workers with gerontological backgrounds interested in working in international and cross-cultural settings. Discussed are the role of social work education in assisting the development of student interest and competence in working with and for older persons in an aging world. Also discussed are international opportunities in field placements for work with older people. 相似文献
5.
孙晓玲 《深圳职业技术学院学报》2010,9(4):3-8
老年社会工作从本质上讲是人的道德实践和国家福利制度的社会结合。面对中国日趋严峻的老龄化现象,从福利制度和机构设置层面做出应对固然重要,但远非足够。基于职业伦理是社会工作“生命线”的事实,加强和提升老年社会工作的专业性和职业伦理精神,更有利于社会工作利他原则的实现。在此方面,美国的经验与教训值得汲取。 相似文献
6.
李全彩 《淮北职业技术学院学报》2007,6(1):62-65
社会工作专业的目的是培养社会工作者.中国文化价值下的社会工作者要求具备的角色特征主要表现为:积极的职业认同感,良好的心理素养,真诚的合作态度,无条件的尊重,助人自助的理念,熟练的心理工作技能.社会工作者角色的培养要在角色的扮演和角色实践中进行,学生在过程中学习角色,老师在与学生的角色扮演、实践互动中给予指导训练.在这个过程中没有纯粹的老师学生,只有社会角色的不同.实现这一培养目标的模式就是教学做合一,即社会工作者角色的生活化训练模式、实验室训练模式、社会训练模式. 相似文献
7.
8.
Jamie Ann Mitchell 《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2013,33(5):471-486
The purpose of this article is to propose an elective social work course as a means of better preparing social workers entering practice in healthcare to meet the challenges of promoting health and reducing health disparities in minority and underserved communities. Course offerings specifically targeting health or medical social work training vary widely. The additional training provided at places of employment and through continuing education after the master's degree is often inadequate for competently addressing the issues clinicians face in practice. 相似文献
9.
目的：调研养老院／社区等校外实践教学平台对学生学习《老年护理学》知识和技能的可行性。方法：通过对大理市5家敬老院走访,调查了31位老年人,查阅国内相关文献,研讨了校外实践教学平台合作模式的建设与管理。结果：提出了合理设计课程结构、建立教学与实践为一体的教学基地、养老机构／社区中“标准病人”的遴选与培训、建立教学效果评价体系的建设思路。结论：校外实践教学平台可以提高学生学习兴趣,增强专业知识和技能水平,培养其独立思维能力,提高创新能力等,增强社会责任感,有利于提高《老年护理学》的教学效果。 相似文献
10.
Sara Sanders PhD LSW Jodi M. Jacobson PhD LCSW-C Laura Ting PhD LCSW-C 《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2013,33(1-2):1-18
Little attention has been given to educating and training social work students and professionals about working with suicidal clients. This article summarizes the literature on client suicide and the professional social worker, as well as presents results from a mixed methods study, which utilized both qualitative and quantitative data collected from a national study on client suicide among social workers. The results indicate that 55% of social workers will experience at least one client suicide attempt and 31% will experience a client suicide completion during the course of their career. Additionally, less than 50% of the social workers surveyed received previous training or education about client suicide in their MSW programs. Suggestions from social workers for the content of training classes on client suicide are included. Implications for practice and research are also discussed. 相似文献
11.
The aging of the U.S. population is creating a growing need for well-trained social workers to serve aging clients and their families. The needs of these clients are often multidimensional, requiring practitioners who are well trained in understanding and applying complex theory, research findings, and practice approaches. Unfortunately, several factors impede best case scenarios in geriatric social work education. These include limited opportunities to study or specialize in aging, a smaller than optimal proportion of social work students seeking such training, and students' frequent fearfulness of research courses and their first practicum field experience. This paper suggests that we can more effectively train social work practitioners (as well as researchers and administrators) by modifying the common practice of teaching research and practice in distinct and separate courses. Specifically, we advocate the addition of an applied research component to the field work portion of students' training. The systematic approach to problem study and explanation, which is the cornerstone of research training, should also be applied to real world practice complexities that students encounter during their field work training and practitioners face in their careers. 相似文献
12.
Jill M. Chonody 《Educational gerontology》2015,41(12):859-887
With the rapid aging of the population, strategies that can be incorporated into the curriculum are needed, including social work and medicine. Over the past 20 years, pedagogical strategies to improve attitudes toward older adults and gerontological practice along with knowledge about aging have been tested. Instructors are seeking methods that are evidence-based; thus, a need for a systematic review of this literature is warranted. For this review, 58 articles met inclusion and were evaluated to determine the best approaches to positively impacting knowledge about, and attitudes toward, older people and gerontological practice. Interventions to change knowledge are the most straightforward with support for aging courses, modules, and infusion approaches. A combination of information with an experiential activity (e.g., service learning) was the most common pedagogical approach; the evidence suggests that this approach can change student attitudes. Addressing gerontological interest appears to be more challenging with fewer studies reporting a positive change. Future research should seek to test additional approaches that may influence student interest in gerontological practice, and additional studies that seek to test online strategies should be conducted, given the prominence of these courses. 相似文献
13.
Lucinda Lee Roff David L. Klemmack Kristina Jaskyte Lina Kundrotaite Brigita Kimbriene Jurate Macijauskiene 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(7):577-585
Having regained independence from Russia in 1990, Lithuania is in the process of developing a social service system to meet the needs of its older citizens. This paper describes the current situation of older persons in Lithuania and the early stages of gerontology education and gerontological service provision in that nation. Future social service providers (n = 22) who participated in one of Lithuania's first gerontological education training programs completed the 17 items of Kogan's Attitudes Toward Old People Scale. Results indicate that future service providers hold generally neutral to positive attitudes toward older persons. The absence of negative attitudes toward older persons among the first generation of Lithuanian gerontological service providers bodes well for the development of gerontology education and services for older persons in Lithuania. 相似文献
14.
《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2013,33(1-2):149-164
In the still early aftermath of the Persian Gulf War and the Somalia expedition, the need for skilled practitioners cannot be ignored. In the years ahead, civilian mental health professionals will encounter war-related stress in clients who fought in both long ago and more recent wars. This article contends that today's training for social workers with its here-and-now, present-oriented foxus is inadequate to the task of dealing with the anguish of emotional trauma. Vietnam veteran studies provide us with a basis for infusion of relevant content into the social work practice curriculum. 相似文献
15.
戴利朝 《江西师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2010,43(6):111-117
近些年来,社会工作者在云南、湘西和万载等地农村进行专业实践,开展专业服务。综合来看,社会工作在改善民生、探索乡村经济可持续发展、提升村民精神生活品质、增强社会团结等方面,对于乡村发展产生了积极的影响,也提出了新的课题。同时,农村社会工作的实践,助推了社会工作人才队伍的培养和社会工作研究水平的提升,从而有助于中国特色社会工作的建设。 相似文献
16.
Most health care and social service providers are routinely required to work with elderly clients and clients’ aging family members. Research suggests that students entering these professions have knowledge deficits and lack positive attitudes toward older people. Few prefer to work with aging clients. Professional curricula are not providing students with adequate training to serve the current needs of this population, much less to meet projected increases in demand for services. To examine this issue, 67 master's students in nursing and social work completed questionnaires assessing (1) knowledge about aging, (2) attitudes toward old people, and (3) perceived barriers to gerontological education. Results confirmed the existence of knowledge deficits among respondents. Attitudes tended to be neutral rather than strongly positive or negative. Knowledge scores were related to attitudes, to respondents’ ages, and to their having lived in households with older relatives. Nursing students identified the greatest barriers in gerontological education as insufficient curriculum time and lack of academic role models. Social work students perceived lower status of work with the elderly and limited experience with healthy older people as the greatest barriers. The two groups agreed that fragmentation of services contributes to inadequate gerontological preparation. Findings suggest a need for didactic and experiential learning opportunities, reinforced by appropriate academic role models, for students in service professions. 相似文献
17.
Julie Cooper Altman Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Laura Quiros 《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2017,37(1):20-35
The benefits of literature are countless. Social workers, however, are usually not inclined to count the teaching and practice of social work among its beneficiaries. We believe that literature is one of the ways to enrich vital components of social work knowledge, attitudes, and skills. In this article, we begin by calling attention to a historical precedent for the use of literature in social work education and practice. We then examine recent research on the impact of literature on human behavior, empathy, and critical thinking and consider its epistemological roots. Next, we review evidence from social work journals on the use of literature in teaching and practice. Having examined the relationships of literature to professional knowledge and practice, we devote most of the article to illustrating how, as social work educators, we are and can be using literature effectively in the teaching of social work. 相似文献
18.
Writing plays a central role in social work practice and in the qualifying programmes studied by student social workers. The research on which this paper is based explores the value of writing undertaken in higher education to writing for professional practice in social work. Drawing on data sources from a ‘text oriented ethnography’, this paper explores the reflections of five recently qualified social workers making the transition from academic to professional practice. The significance of this study is heightened as social work practice and education are undergoing significant review at the time of writing. This review has identified the role of writing as important in both academic and practice domains. The paper suggests that there is currently no clear progressive link between academic writing in social work and the writing in practice required of graduate social workers. This paper offers some reflections on the implicit and explicit value of writing in an academic context to writing in professional practice. 相似文献
19.
Spatial thinking, which is taught and practiced in many of the social sciences, is a skill that is often overlooked in the social work curriculum. Spatial thought increases perception, logic, and organized cognition of goals and therefore holds promise for social work practice. Developing skills in spatial thought offers social workers additional tools for problem solving at all practice levels. Finally, thinking spatially raises awareness of problem-solving techniques in relation to environmental resources, a key aspect of systems theory. Fortunately, spatial thinking can be easily integrated into a variety of social work classes helping students master the skill and understand its importance. This article defines and describes spatial thinking, explores its fit in various areas of the social work curriculum, and discusses ways its use can be encouraged. 相似文献
20.
Laura Nissen Kimberly Pendell Pauline Jivanjee Charlotte Goodluck 《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2013,33(4):384-400
Social workers practice in rapidly changing and complex environments where they encounter challenges that include increasing evidence-based practice requirements, a shifting information landscape, and diminishing workplace resources. To address these challenges, social workers need to engage in lifelong learning. The purpose of this article is to explore conceptual elements and assumptions underlying lifelong learning; propose social work specific approaches to lifelong learning; present a conceptual model to orient social work educators to the possibilities inherent in lifelong learning for practice, with inclusion of suggested practice behavior; and offer a research agenda for practice. 相似文献