ABSTRACT

Social Work qualifying programmes teach students the necessary knowledge, skills, and values during a series of taught modules. Formal opportunities to integrate knowledge into practice are provided through practice placements in social work agencies. Each practice placement enables agency and/or academic staff to gate-keep entry into the profession, through assessing student competence against agreed practice learning requirements, readiness to practice, and adherence to professional social work standards. This research study seeks to expand our understanding of the incidence of and reasons why students failed their practice placement whilst studying social work on the island of Ireland. On receipt of ethical approval, Practice Teacher reports and minutes of Practice Assessment Panels were used for data collection. Sixty-three students (19 male, 44 female; mean age 34 years) failed placement 2015–2019, with the majority (58.7%) failing first placement. Reasons for failing were categorised into knowledge, skills, values and personal reasons. The most common reasons for failing were a poor understanding of the professional social work role, poor time management, poor written work, the inability to follow direction, limited application of knowledge to practice, and poor professional conduct. Results suggest most students disclosed mitigating circumstances, which affected engagement and competence.

摘要

社会工作资格课程通过一系列教学模块向学生传授必要的知识、技能和价值观。通过在社会工作机构实习，提供将知识融入实践的正式机会。每次实践实习都使机构和/或学术人员能够根据商定的实践学习要求评估学生的能力、实践的准备情况以及对专业社会工作标准的遵守情况，从而确保进入该专业。这项研究旨在扩大我们对学生在爱尔兰岛学习社会工作时实习失败的发生率和原因的理解。在获得道德批准后，实践教师报告和实践评估小组会议纪要用于数据收集。六十三名学生（男 19 名，44 女；平均年龄 34 岁）在 2015 年至 2019 年未能通过安置，其中大多数人 (58.7%) 在第一次安置中失败。失败的原因分为知识、技能、价值观和个人原因。失败的最常见原因是对专业社会工作角色的理解不足、时间管理不善、书面工作不佳、无法遵循指示、知识在实践中的应用有限以及职业行为不佳。结果表明，大多数学生披露了影响参与度和能力的从轻情节。时间管理不善、书面作业不佳、无法遵循指示、知识在实践中的应用有限以及职业行为不佳。结果表明，大多数学生披露了影响参与度和能力的从轻情节。时间管理不善、书面作业不佳、无法遵循指示、知识在实践中的应用有限以及职业行为不佳。结果表明，大多数学生披露了影响参与度和能力的从轻情节。