Field Education: Creating Successful Placements [Paperback]

Field Education: Creating Successful Placementsintroduces students to the experiences of those involved in social work field education placements. The book fosters social work field education placements as successful learning experiences by identifying key processes and frameworks, and how these can be used in practice.Field Education: Creating Successful Placementsintroduces students to the experiences of those involved in social work field education placements in a variety of settings, including rural and international placements. The book identifies key processes and frameworks and how these can be used in practice.Understanding what makes a successful placement is critical to informing the planning, development and ongoing coordination of field education, and by extension ensuring that social work graduates have high quality learning experiences.Field Education: Creating Successful Placementslooks at what makes a successful placement from four different perspectives - lecturer, field educator, laision person and student - helping to better prepare students for the rigours of social work and human services work. It encourages integrating theory with practice and provides an insight into the diverse organisations and practitioners involved in Field Education.SECTION ONE: CREATING SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL WORK PLACEMENTS: SETTING THE SCENEChapter 1: Key Frameworks for a successful placement.Chapter 2: Understanding the Broader Picture SECTION TWO: GETTING STARTED: CLARIFYING ROLES AND EXPECTATIONS - CREATING SAFE LEARNING SPACES.Chapter 3: Working together and external supervision.Chapter 4: Collaboration in complex organisations.Chapter 5: Working together and task supervision.Chapter 6: Valuing individual and group supervision. SECTION THREE: NAVIGATING CHALLENGES DURING PLACEMENT.Chapter 7: Being Active: what to do when nothing is happening?Chapter 8: What happens when things go wrong?Chapter 9: Building on challenges to create opportunities.l¼