Field Instruction in Social Work Settings

Toba Schwaber Kerson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781560246701
• eBook ISBN: 9781317764717
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Field Instruction in Social Work Settings explores the relationship between field instruction and the setting in which it occurs. The book asserts that certain aspects of social work, including laws, funding, political climate, organizational policies, and values, affect the relationship between student and field instructor and shape teaching and learning. The book explores dimensions of the student/field instructor relationship such as goals and expectations, development of professional identity, uses of the self, issues of diversity, authority, dependency, autonomy, value dilemmas, and the structure of supervision. It presents a framework for teaching field instruction and uses the framework to explore its relevance, meaning, and use in the following settings:

• perinatal AIDS program
• public child welfare
• child advocacy agency
• public school
• occupational health and safety project
• family service
• psychiatric hospital
• case management program for the elderly
• day center for the elderlyField Instruction in Social Work Settings is the only book available relating field instruction to the specific context in which it occurs. It recognizes the social work field's diminished budget and increased demands and points out the critical necessity of students learning to address and manage policy and organizational issues as they develop their social work skills. This book is an aid to field instructors balancing increases in enrollment and curriculum content and decreases in placements and budgets. It integrates all of these concerns with field practice and seeks to provide a model for those working in the field as instructors and students. Field Instruction in Social Work Settings applies classroom material to social work settings and emphasizes the value of field instruction by relating it to the branches of child welfare, mental health, and health care. It allows the reader to integrate social work policy and advocacy with field work, and it provides the reader with an appreciation of how social work and field instruction can work together directly.

Index

African-Americans, parallel thought process coping method of 16

Administrative style of agency/institution, and influence of, defined 10

in elder care community-based program 187

in elder care senior center 203–204

in family service agency 147

in occupational safety and health area project 129

in pediatric hospital 59–60

in perinatal AIDS setting 40–41

in psychiatric clinic 163–164

Adolescents

birth control advocacy for 63, 68

as “emancipated minors,” treatment of 56

school-related social work interventions with 112, 116–118

AIDS epidemic, political responses to 39–40

AIDS, persons with. See also Perinatal care

children, and hospital organizational policy concerns 58

education and counseling in schools 108

for pregnant women 37–39, 40, 41

entitlement and restriction issues 37–38

funding of services for 38–39, 40

laws affecting practice with 35–38

Asians, Southeast, cultural beliefs and diversity 64–65

Auspices of agency/institution, defined 7–8

Authority, issues of, defined 17–18

in child advocacy setting 100–101

in family service agency 150–151

in group-work practice 207

in pediatric hospital care 65

in psychiatric clinic setting 172–174

in school social work practice 117–118, 119

Autonomy of students, and development of, defined 16–19

in child advocacy setting 98, 100–101

in elder care community-based program 194

in family service agency 150–151

in group-work practice 212

misinterpretation by instructor of student’s need for 47

in pediatric hospital 63, 65

through professional identity development 63

in psychiatric clinic 172–174

in school social work practice 117–118, 119

“Battered helper,” defined 81

Case management, and relevance in practice, defined 9–10

in child advocacy 97

in elder care commu...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction: Field Instruction in Social Work Settings: A Framework for Teaching
• Social Work Field Instruction in a Perinatal AIDS Setting
• Field Instruction in a Pediatric Tertiary Care Center
• Agency-Based Student Support Groups and the Relationship Between Field Instructor and Student: Essential Learning Modes in Public Child Welfare
• The Field Instruction Relationship in the Context of a Small Urban Child Advocacy Agency
• Field Instruction in a Public School
• Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health
• Field Instruction in a Suburban Family Service Agency
• Field Instruction in a Psychiatric Setting
• Social Work Practice with the Elderly: A Multifaceted Placement Experience
• Group Supervision as a Vehicle for Teaching Group Work to Students: Field Instruction in a Senior Center
• Index