Student to practitioner: a study of preparedness for social work practice

Title: Student to practitioner: a study of preparedness for social work practice
Creator: Agllias, Kylie
Relation: Australian Social Work Vol. 63, Issue 3, p. 345-360
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2010.498522
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: Australian social work graduates face an increasingly complex work environment where the role of the social worker is often overlooked or misunderstood. In order to examine the anticipated and concrete practice reality for social workers, this qualitative study examined the expectations of social work students preparing to enter the workforce (n=29) and the experiences of new social work graduates in the workplace (n=9). Findings suggest that undergraduates have a realistic understanding of the challenges they would encounter in practice, including anticipated value and ethical conflicts, and allied professions' conceptions of the social work role. They did not anticipate the busyness of the workplace or the level of supervision offered.
Subject: new graduates; social work practice; undergraduates
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/921647
Identifier: uon:9357
Identifier: ISSN:0312-407X
Language: eng
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