ABSTRACT Social workers are challenged by the profession’s Code of Ethics to engage in social and political action to create social change, and social work education is challenged by our Code and accreditation standards to prepare students for this challenge. Social policy instructors often need to adapt teaching methods in order to account for differences in the political and social context within which they are teaching. This study uses the Civic Participation Model [CPM] to assess the regional differences in a political social work training offered in two strikingly different locations in the Eastern and Western United States. This paper describes a case example of an adaptation of a political social work training to a new context that varies significantly in a number of ways from the one in which it was created, including geography, ideology, density, and political structure. Outcomes are discussed, and the article proposes research questions for a larger follow-up study of political social work trainings in a series of diverse geographic areas of the country.

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培训社会工作者参与政治活动：探索美国的地区差异

摘要社会工作者受到该行业《道德守则》的挑战，要求其采取社会和政治行动来创造社会变革，而社会工作教育也受到我们的《守则》和认证标准的挑战，以使学生为应对这一挑战做好准备。社会政策讲师经常需要调整教学方法，以解决他们所教政治和社会背景方面的差异。这项研究使用公民参与模型[CPM]来评估在美国东部和西部两个截然不同的地点提供的政治社会工作培训中的地区差异。本文描述了一个案例示例，说明了将政治社会工作培训适应于新环境的情况，该新环境与创建该环境的方式有很多不同，包括地理，意识形态，密度和政治结构。对成果进行了讨论，并提出了针对该国一系列不同地理区域的政治社会工作培训进行较大规模后续研究的研究问题。