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Evaluating community projects through participatory rural appraisal: case study of a CSR initiative in India Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Kiran Thampi, Saju Madavanakadu Devassy, Rajeev Selvaraj Prasanna, Jolly John Odathakkal
The success of any project depends on the stakeholder participation. There are many methods by which stakeholder participation is ensured in a project. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is an app...
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Methodological bias in social work education: the silence of quantitative approaches in students’ research in Zimbabwe Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Taruvinga Muzingili, John Chiwanza Magocha, Raymond Taruvinga
This study examines the factors contributing to the low utilization of quantitative research approaches among social work research students. A census sampling technique was employed to conduct a su...
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Campus climate assessment and action: disaggregating the social work experience in Canada Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Ann Curry-Stevens, Alissa Petovello, Esther Hayford
Climate surveys hold the potential to advance equity in organizations, serving to generate quantitative data on the depth and breadth of climate-related issues, with its forte being those related t...
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Framing the human rights curriculum in American social work education Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Chie Noyori-Corbett, David P. Moxley
In this paper, the authors take the position that human rights are not a principal discipline of American social work. Rather, within the United States, social work is a profession that makes the f...
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Doctoral program support impacts student educational experience: examining the virtual holding environment across DSW cohorts Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Catherine L. Marrs Fuchsel
In this exploratory mixed-methods study, we applied Fletcher, Davis Comer, and Dunlap’s conceptual framework of Virtual Holding Environments (VHEs), spaces where supportive relationships can be dev...
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Human rights integration in Ethiopian social work education: a study on curricula and students’ understandings Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Endeshaw Aynetu Bitew, Ingo Stamm
Focusing on the integration of human rights into the Ethiopian Bachelor of Social Work programme, this paper presents a study of students’ understanding of human rights by employing a mixed-methods...
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Noticing ‘them things that may have gone amiss otherwise’: exploring social work placements in schools in England Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Prospera Tedam, Irine Mano
Schools play a crucial in the lives of children, families and communities and are increasingly used by social work programmes in England for practice learning. This qualitative study involved in-de...
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Children’s rights in action: involving care-experienced individuals in academic lessons Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Marzia Saglietti
Focusing on children’s right to participate, as outlined in Article 12 of the 1989 Children’s Rights Convention, there is a growing body of research on involving children and young people in partic...
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Digital competences of social work degree students: an exploratory study based on a survey utilizing a triangulated voluntary sample Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Lukas Kytka
In various countries, the digital competences of social work students are inadequately addressed within existing curricular frameworks. Addressing this gap necessitates a more nuanced understanding...
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Impact of equity-centered training: supporting racialized communities with enhanced education for social workers Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Deepy Sur, Heba Baig, Simon Lam, Faisal Islam
Social workers benefit from increasing their skills and knowledge working with a diverse range of communities and populations, particularly among racialized and marginalized communities. This study...
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Dr Ambedkar’s idea of human rights and its scope of teaching in social work education: from text to context Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Ajeet Kumar Pankaj, Mohammad Niyaz Ahmad, Iftekhar Alam
Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Ambedkar henceforth) is not merely known as the chief architect of the Indian constitution, social activist, philosopher, and social reformer but also as a great human ri...
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Evaluating two academic programs of social work: a comparison between the United Arab Emirates University and the Al-Quds University in Palestine Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Abdulaziz Albrithen, Qusai Ibrahim, Ziad Faraj, Lynelle Osburn
The accreditation of social work education is a vital issue, given its strong connection to the outcomes of social work education and effectiveness of social work practice as a whole. Thus, this st...
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A baseline survey of levels of motivation, well-being, and employment preferences of newly qualified social workers in the UK Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 A. Roulston, J. Ross, P. McFadden, S. Boyle, D. Mackle, D. MacDermott, L. Montgomery, D. Hayes
The aim of this study is to examine levels of motivation, wellbeing, and employment preferences of newly qualified social workers who graduated in 2022. A mixed-method study design was employed usi...
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The movement toward environmental action in social work fields Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Michael Clinch, Susannah Brown
The authors’ purpose is to support the theoretical foundation for active engagement in environmental issues in the field of social work. The concept of this article is that environmental understand...
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Enhancing research engagement in MSW students by investigating social work majors’ adverse life events and mental health outcomes Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Kim M. Anderson, Alison C. Cares, Amie R. Newins
Research literacy for graduate social work students may be enhanced by approaching the process of teaching research methods from an experiential learning perspective. This article provides an overv...
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Social workers’ educational level and attitudes toward child participation in cases regarding children’s contact with birth parents – the case of Norway Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Iselin Huseby-Lie, Therese Saltkjel
Previous international research indicates that social workers may lack the competence to comfortably involve children in child protection processes. Implementation of stricter competence requiremen...
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Integrative social work practice with refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced persons Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Novita Rahmawati Hidayat, Pradikta Lazuardi, Ucik Nurmalaningsih
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Neurodiverse inclusive social work education considered through a student partnership Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Yasmine Salisbury, Richard Foster, Siobhan Hill, Gillian Buck
To improve inclusion in one social work teaching department, a ‘Students-as-Partners’ project employed four social work students with lived experience of neurodiversity to work in partnership with ...
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Social work and climate justice: international perspectives Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Zulfaidil, Nandita Suri Kallo, Yusuf Giri Wijaya, Rhakamerta Hijazi
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Social Educators’ initial and in-service training: community projects as promoters of professional development Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Germano Borges, Lénia Carvalhais
Promoting social justice, fighting against social inequalities, and minimizing the risks and dangers faced by society’s most vulnerable groups are the aims of socio-educational intervention actions...
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Applying human rights approaches in social work education through incorporating practitioner involvement and social work activism in classroom settings Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Kerry Cuskelly
As a practice-based profession, the application of human rights approaches situated within a radical and critical lens is the focus of this article. It is suggested in this article that human right...
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Exploring Latin American Organizational Social Work (OSW): a primary analysis of the conceptual, epistemic and methodological bases of OST in Latin American schools of social work Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 M. Alejandra Inostroza, Paula Miranda Sánchez, Magdalena Pilar Calderón Orellana, Jorge Farah Ojeda
Despite the prevalence of social workers working in the organizational field, there is no consensus in the literature on what Organizational Social Work (OSW) is and how it is understood from a Lat...
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Indian social work Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Gaurav Kumar
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Meeting them halfway’: legitimation in the discourse of secular social work educators at ultra-Orthodox campuses Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Orit Bershtling
This paper critically examines the discursive practices used by secular social work educators when teaching ultra-Orthodox students, whose strict interpretations of Jewish religious law often clash...
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Using Enquiry Action Learning to help students understand their decision-making Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Melanie Durowse
An Enquiry Action Learning sequence was undertaken by MSc social work students at a Scottish University as part of a decision-making module, to assist them to work together in gathering information...
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Nexus between environmental justice and social work education: perspectives from the School of Social Work, McGill University, Canada Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Ata Senior Yeboah, Charles Gyan
This paper addresses the imperative for social work educators and professionals to integrate environmental dimensions into curricula and field practice purposefully. Advocates argue that this integ...
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Integrating four teaching and learning methods to deliver transformational social work education online Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Manohar Pawar, Lynelle Osburn, Monica Short, Susan Mlcek
As responsive social work education is about meeting the dynamic needs of learners, social work educators engage with innovative approaches that promote teaching and learning (TAL). The purpose of ...
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On emperors, monsters and social workers human rights based narratives for post-covid times Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Emilio J. Gómez-Ciriano
The outbreak of COVID-19 has affected—and continues to affect—social work both in its professional dimension and as an academic discipline in its teaching and research variants. Numerous studies, c...
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Food justice within US-based social work literature: a 20-year scoping review Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Carla Silva
Social workers within the United States (US) have addressed food issues since the profession’s origin in the late 1800s. Today, the acute problem of food insecurity continues to concern social work...
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Fostering professional judgement and decision making in social work education: addressing dilemmas of equal treatment Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Stefanie Julia Witter
Since social workers are often confronted with dilemmas as insoluble conflicts, professional judgment and decision-making skills are necessary. Therefore, social workers must already be confronted ...
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Social work in the context of child protection in Seychelles: educational preparedness from a global and local perspective Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 A. N. Orock, P. Navratil
Child protection’s complexity requires localized understanding within social work. This paper focuses on the child protection system in the Republic of Seychelles and evaluates social workers’ prep...
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Pedagogies of possibility: Case studies from using foresight tools in the social work classroom Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Danielle Maude Littman, Finn Bell, Anderson Al Wazni, Alexis Speck Glennon, Jimmy A. Young, Lauri Goldkind, Leah Prussia, Laura Nissen
Social workers engage across sectors to advocate for social justice, empower individuals and communities and work toward more equitable futures. Foresight practice, or the systematic scan of past a...
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Digital storytelling as virtual work integrated learning: the Mia project in child and family social work education Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Fatin Shabbar, Aidan Cornelius-Bell, Tania Hall
Digital Storytelling as a pedagogical tool in higher education is still an emerging technology with great potential for growth and innovation. While there has been a growing interest in the pedagog...
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Trends in social work education in Colombia: legacies of professional history Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Luz Diaz Mateus, Raquel Méndez Villamizar, Claudia Quijano Mejía
This article presents the curricular trends of Social Work education in Colombia focusing on the legacy of the historical periods of the profession in Latin America: Traditional, Developmentalist, ...
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Insights from the lived experience of Buddhist ethics: implications for social work ethics education Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Bibiana D. Koh
Ethics is largely dominated by European curriculum which includes Western moral theories such as deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and care ethics. To decenter this dominant ethics curricu...
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Bouncing back and bouncing forward: coping strategies used by the social workers during COVID-19 pandemic Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Alexandra Tamiolaki, Argyroula Kalaitzaki, George Tsouvelas
Studies have suggested that social workers being indirectly exposed to their patients’ COVID-19-related traumatic experiences may have both negative (i.e. secondary traumatic stress symptoms; STS) ...
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Social work: a reader Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Haryanto, Rini Solihat, Dewi Sulistyowati, Anita Fadhilah, Nanda Ayu Lestari, Burhanudin
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Indigenization discourse in social work international perspectives Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Hariasda Rikardus Mario Sani, Moh. Taufik Kholil, Ucik Nurmalaningsih
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The merging of knowledge and teaching about poverty through a participatory action project Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Rosa J. Cho
It is known among social work educators that training students about human rights is not only a mandate of the profession’s governing bodies but a desirable goal. While the notion of giving voice t...
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Challenging the narrative: social work students’ views on the impact of service user and carer-led pedagogy to knowledge and practice Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Eleni Skoura-Kirk
Service user and carer involvement is firmly established as an integral part of social work education in the UK, with a growing body of evidence demonstrating its beneficial effects on student lear...
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Teaching human rights-based social work in Australia – drawing from practice experiences in diverse environments Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Lisa Ewenson
This reflective piece considers the author’s formative professional experiences including working in the criminal justice system in Central Australia, and conducting humanitarian monitoring of immi...
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Determination and assessment of the best interest of children: drawing lessons from stakeholders and the need for interdisciplinary education; the case of Cyprus Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Christos Panagiotopoulos, Anna Plevri, Joanna Katsounari
Protecting vulnerable children is always a challenging and difficult task. Many of the challenges stem from the nature of the difficulties that children come across in their life and especially fro...
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Returning to the teaching of human rights for social work. Lessons learned in Chile from the last 50-30-5 years Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Gabriela Rubilar, Andrew Cooke
How should we teach recent history to uncover the links between social work and human rights? To answer this question, we critically analyze recent events in Chile with an emphasis on the training ...
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Exploring the implicit curriculum in social work education: a narrative literature review Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Angela Rosignoli
In recent years, scientific literature on educational processes has focused on the physical and social environment as a significant factor in the development of students’ learning processes. Severa...
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Social work with encamped refugees: reflections from Tongogara refugee camp in Zimbabwe Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Raymond Taruvinga, Johanne Mhlanga
In this article, we draw on our joint experiences as social work practitioners and researchers in a rights-restricting practice context, a refugee camp. We reflect on social workers’ roles in navig...
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Arab minority social workers trained in a foreign language: linguistic challenges and coping mechanisms Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Ibrahim Mahajne
The research highlights challenges involved in ensuring professional authentication faced by social workers working in cultural minorities. The findings contribute to the knowledge corpus that disc...
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Positioning sexual justice within social work teaching on human rights: countering contemporary sexuality oppression Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 George W. Turner
Access to sexual health, sexuality information, sexual expression and sexual pleasure is a human right. Yet, the sexual health and wellness landscape has become a battlefield. Recently large-scale ...
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Building on strengths to develop the leadership of social workers Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Sharanya Mahesh, Robin Miller
The importance of leadership to creating supportive organizational cultures and positive team cultures for social work practice is well recognized. Yet, there are few opportunities provided for dev...
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Social work education in Vietnam: the development, challenges and ongoing effort to indigenization in the past two decades Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Nguyen Thi Thai Lan, Richard Hugman, Tran Thi Huong Giang
Social work education is considered essential in developing the social work profession in Vietnam to set a foundation for the profession in the late 1980s. Since officially given a training code in...
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Teaching note: personal attack or the personal touch? Evaluating the use of video feedback methods with qualifying social workers Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Louise Isham, Kelly Tighe, Sarah-Jane Fenton
Social work skills such as the ability to reflect on self and to recognize and manage emotions are fostered in part through using and receiving feedback, however there is limited research about fee...
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Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Muhamad Irfan Nurdiansyah, Reski Putra Utama
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Does qualifying route inform preparedness for child protection practice? An appraisal of the testimonies of 201 ‘early career’ social workers Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Ciarán Murphy, Shaun Liverpool, Nicole Parry, Nicola Birch, Jennifer Turay
England’s children’s social care workforce is in a state of crisis, with the problem perhaps more prominent in the field of child protection. This led the Review of Children’s Social Care to call f...
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Enhancing social work education: a praxis-based teaching case study on integrating simulation through experiential learning theory Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Gabriella McBride
This teaching case study takes the reader through a Master in Social Work (MSW) practice course in a northeast city during the 2022–2023 academic year. With the receipt of a small teaching grant, v...
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Learning from casework in child protection: the view from within Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Jude Harrison, Steven Hodge, Sarojni Choy
Child protection is a complex and sensitive practice. The core responsibility is the care and protection of children and young people who have been subject to, or who are at risk from abuse and neg...
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The use of poetry in form of haikus as a tool for critical reflection Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Orlanda Harvey, Louise Oliver
Critical reflection is an integral part of social work education and practice, yet it is widely understood to be hard to learn, teach, and assess. We introduced the use of poetry in the form of hai...
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Radicalisation, extremism and social work practice: minority Muslim youth in the West Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Zulfaidil, Ramadhan Jabal Primadana, Muhammad Ihwanul Muslimin
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Social work in the changing welfare state. A policy analysis of active labour market policies for disadvantaged youth in Austria Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Johann Bacher
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Research ethics for students in the social science Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Shibilshad P
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Advancing social work curriculum to challenge FASD-related stigma and promote strengths-based family engagement Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Susan Evans
The need for professionals to become educated in fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) has emerged as a critical topic in child and family settings. FASD is sometimes described as being entirely p...
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Social work in child care Social Work Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Haryanto, Sjaeful Anwar, Windri Wisti, Diana Yusni, Aldeva Ilhami, Muh. Aswar
Published in Social Work Education: The International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)