Service User Involvement in UK Social Service Agencies and Social Work Education
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Service User Involvement in UK Social Service Agencies and Social Work Education
Forming partnerships with service users became a requirement for social work education programs in the United Kingdom as of 2003, leading to the development of innovative approaches to social work education that involve service users as experts who are helping to teach the future generation of social workers. This article examines the perceptions of service user involvement and how it is implem...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Social Work Education
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1043-7797,2163-5811
DOI: 10.1080/10437797.2016.1246271