Resources

A Template for a checklist of key actions during the first days and weeks of the student's Practice Learning Opportunity

A checklist to help learners reflect in a purposeful way on their experiences of visiting agencies external to their work-based learning setting. Written by Tim Ward and drawn from the ScOPT Toolkit.

A group task based on analysis of professional power and roles described in the inquiry of the death of a young child, Caleb Ness  (O'Brien, 2003).

This activity helps the student to understand that the process of intervention and assessment starts from the very beginning of contact. It comes from a book by Mark Doel and Steven Shardlow (2005), Modern Social Work Practice.

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Introduction for a Handbook 'written for busy social workers involved in supporting, enabling and assessing learners in the workplace. It is aimed primarily at people with responsibility for either qualifying social worker students or newly-qualified social workers (NQSWs) during their first year of professional practice, but it will also be of interest to those with responsibility for other professional learners such as students from other professions, people undertaking post-qualifying…

An activity from Mark Doel and Steven Shardlow's book, Modern Social Work Practice, 2005, which uses a Snakes and Ladders approach to track the steps necessary to achieving a goal and identifying the most likely obstacles.

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Published by the Department of Human Services in Melbourne, Australia, this resource guide is designed to be a practical tool to assist frontline and middle managers in their day-to-day roles as managers and supervisors.

Kelsey McMahon, a NQSW who drew this to our attention says, "I love the emphasis on 'reflective supervision', in opposition to a case management 'do this, this and this' approach.

A set of capabilities for child care and protection that social workers much achieve over the course of the social work degree in Scotland.

Critical reflection, when used specifically to improve professional practice, is reflective practice that focuses on the power dimensions of assumptive thinking, and therefore on how practice might change in order to bring about change in the social situations in which professionals work.

This chapter outlines general reflective processes and thinking, and discusses some of the issues involved with critical reflection specifically.

This is chapter 26 of the…

An activity for learners to carry out between supervision sessions to help them consider the importance of an evidence-based approach and apply this to a practice situation.