Evolving to competence based Social Work training

Training and Employment in Social Work

Interprofessional leadership training in MCH social work.

The need to train health social workers to practice interprofessionally is an essential goal of social work education. Although most health social workers have exposure to multidisciplinary practice within their field work, few social work education programs incorporate interprofessional learning as an integrated component of both course work and field experiences (McPherson, Headrick, & Moss, ...

Family Group Conferences and Cultural Competence in Social Work

Family Group Conferences (FGCs) as a method of preventive work came into being over two decades ago. The FGC approach arose from a minority cultural perspective and the rising numbers of Maori children in state care in New Zealand. Two decades after the Family Rights Group first championed FGC in the UK, it is a great concern that we know little or nothing about how such an approach is being ut...

Core Competence of Social Work Undergraduates in China

erature. However, current studies lack empirical evaluations of social work students’ core competencies. Using 332 social work undergraduates in China, this paper examined core competences of social work undergraduates in China and compared the results with that in the United States. The results revealed that Chinese students’ core competences were significantly lower than American students’. P...

Social Work-Based Approach to the Empowerment Model of Rough Sleepers

Introduction: In the recent two decades, a special kind of homelessness and rooflessness which is named rough sleepers has been appeared in our country, especially in the big city Tehran. The sleeping rough is a sign and resultant of other social issues in society and it also can lead to many more. Different governmental and non-governmental organizations have executed many interventional proje...