This excellent resource has been created by Caroline Aldridge and Sandra McGough (What Work Well Leads, Norfolk County Council, 2018).
Caroline and Sandra are happy to share their resources and ideas. If you use this tool please tell them and give them feedback on the Padlet website or on Twitter: @CarolineAldrid5 or @McgoughSandra
The Practice Pyramid is a learning tool that supports social work students' ability to integrate their understanding of personal and professional values, theory and practice during field placements. Although it has been used by practice educators in Scotland for over 20 years, it is not well known elsewhere and has yet to be evaluated. This paper, written by a practice educator and a student social worker, describes the Practice Pyramid and provides a case example to illustrate how it contributed to one student's learning during a practice placement.
Writing for Learning at Work week, Jo Finch talks about the importance of keeping up with the latest social work research.
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.
The main concepts of some key theories... in pictures.
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.
The Field Educator is an online journal published by the Simmons School of Social Work that promotes knowledge exchange among the social work field education community.
The Munro Review of Child Protection: Interim Report: The Child's Journey, focusing on the child's journey from needing to receiving the right help, was published on 1 February 2011. This follows on from The Munro Review of Child Protection: Part One: A Systems Analysis, published on 1 October 2010, which discussed issues in the child protection system in England and Wales. In recent years child protection systems have tended to focus on imposing and meeting managerial targets and regulations.
With its great topical importance for the adult social care sector, the British Journal of Social Work is pleased to make freely available a number of key articles from recent issues of the journal about self-directed support. These articles provide an informed and critical analysis of policy and practice in this area - from the evaluation of early pilots to current issues in implementation.
This paper reports on three evaluated projects of social work placements in private care homes for older people in Scotland. This was a new situation for each of the care homes. They were uncertain about the student role and this was initially challenging for the students. Reported outcomes of these placements include deep learning for the students who developed core social work skills and an understanding of ageism within a relationship-based model of social work.
