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These materials are all openly accessible on the Support Around Death  website and can be used in a range of different teaching settings for health and social care professionals.

Placements are crucial for the education of student social workers, but they have a huge benefit for the teams they're placed with too. Deirdre Fitzpatrick, ScOPT Trustee, has made a short video illustrating the advantages to teams of having a student and the benefits, too, to the student. It's just one minute long.

XXXThe app consists of a number of interactive sections. A range of content is provided on social work theories and on critically reflective practice. The user can enter information about their own practice and the context of their work and content which directly links to this will be provided.

This podcast looks at the topic of values and beliefs in social work, the impact they have on our practice, and how we can be more aware of them.

This podcast looks at how social workers make critical reflection happen, despite the pressure and busyness of our work.

Also see the podcast on Critical Refection.

This podcast takes a look at the theory and evidence around using critical reflection, and offer a model for doing good reflection in practice.

Also see the podcast on Practical Refection.

We know that supervision is important and that social workers value it. Supervision helps morale, confidence, and retention of staff. However, we also hear from practitioners and managers that good supervision is hard to find.

In these podcasts we make the connection between containment - support to understand, process and learn from the emotional aspect of social work - and good supervision. Good supervision looks like someone walking out feeling better - less anxious, more confident, clearer about what to do - than when they went in.

Iriss recently recorded Dan Hughes talking about the impact of trauma on children in care. This is a useful resource for social work students and practice teachers.

Dan is a Clinical Psychologist from the USA. He is the originator of dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP) and also attachment-focused family therapy. He is an internationally acclaimed therapist and author of ground-breaking books on attachment and emotional recovery.

This video provides a stimulus for students and other learners to expand their understanding  of empathy. In this 10 minute animated talk philosopher and author, Roman Krznaric, explains how we can help to drive, not only better individual relationships, but also wider social change by stepping outside ourselves.

It is published online by RSA , a non-profit organisation 'working to meet 21st century challenges by showcasing ideas, undertaking innovative research and building civic capacity around the world'.

A website developed by Merlinda Weinberg from Dalhousie University to enable workers in the helping professions to expand their thinking about ethics beyond Codes of Practice and uni-dimensional decision-making models. Includes analytical tools to help practitioners to develop strategies to address ethical dilemmas, and a forum for discussion and debate.