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Becoming a Social Worker: BSW Social Workers’ Educational Experiences
Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, 2013In this exploratory qualitative study, researchers examined key educational experiences bachelor- level social workers identified as being most helpful in transitioning to current social work careers. Twenty students from CSWE- accredited social work programs, having worked in a social work agency for a minimum of 4 months, voluntarily participated ...
Sarah Hessenauer, Charles Zastrow
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Comparing Social Worker and Non-Social Worker Outcomes: A Research Review
Social Work, 2012This article reports on a review of the literature comparing the outcomes of social workers with those of non-social workers. The review was commissioned by NASW's Texas Chapter to examine empirical evidence regarding the comparative effectiveness of social work to possibly support efforts to educate employers and the public about the value of social ...
Allen, Rubin, Danielle E, Parrish
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Do Social Workers Make Better Child Welfare Workers Than Non–Social Workers?
Research on Social Work Practice, 2006Objective: To empirically examine whether the educational background of child welfare workers in Florida impacts on performance evaluations of their work. Method: A proportionate, stratified random sample of supervisor and peer evaluations of child protective investigators and child protective service workers is conducted. ANOVA procedures are used to
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Social workers affecting social policy
2013The first book to undertake a cross-national study of social worker engagement in social policy formulation processes, shedding light on policy practice in social work discourse, education and practice in eight liberal democracies.
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2016
Abstract Life story of a woman whose marriage broke down in the 1960s after she discovered, initially from a BBC radio Woman’s Hour programme on the female orgasm, that sex could be fun. As a young woman, a typist at London University, she had encountered an experiment in group work (among medical students) which was to be a life-long ...
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Abstract Life story of a woman whose marriage broke down in the 1960s after she discovered, initially from a BBC radio Woman’s Hour programme on the female orgasm, that sex could be fun. As a young woman, a typist at London University, she had encountered an experiment in group work (among medical students) which was to be a life-long ...
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Youth Workers as Social Workers
1987A recent survey found, rather unsurprisingly, that young people view youth clubs as somewhere to go where they can meet and make friends and enjoy themselves in a relaxed atmosphere (DES, 1983). Top of the youngsters’ list of expectations of youth workers was not organisational ability, enthusiasm or activity skills, but willingness to focus on ...
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Why Don't Social Workers Make Better Child Welfare Workers Than Non–Social Workers?
Research on Social Work Practice, 2006This invited response contends that Dr. Perry's main findings are really not that surprising nor should they be. It argues that he should have asked a different question rather than the one posed in his title. The reasons offered for social workers not differing from non–social workers in their respective performance of tasks at Florida's Department ...
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