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Direct linkGellis, Zvi D.; Gregory, Christin; LaMarra, Denise; Radway, Janice; Cao, Hannah; Connors, Sophia; Delgado, Jennifer; Sloan, Kelli; Trovati, Joslyn – Journal of Social Work Education, 2023
Nationally, social work students face limited access to clinical education that examines the intersection of older adults, chronic disease, and mental health. This is critical due to a rapidly aging population and a shortage of geriatrics trained social workers. Scant data exists on the effectiveness of clinical simulations to prepare social work…
Descriptors: Social Work, Caseworkers, Older Adults, Chronic Illness
Lynch, Raven E.; Meshelemiah, Jacquelyn C. A.; Casassa, Kaitlin – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
Social work field placements are considered the signature pedagogy of the social work profession. Traditionally, students are placed in a single agency for the academic year. Given that antitrafficking intervention is fairly new to the social work profession, interns may not be able to get the most out of an experience in a single agency. Using…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Teaching Methods, Student Placement
Deichen Hansen, Megan; Holland, Margaret M.; Munn, Jean – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
Interprofessional health-care models have been largely recognized as a critical component of effective and efficient health-care provision. While many health professions have established methods of exposing their students to interprofessional health models, social work has been slow to join in on this educational movement. In an effort to provide…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Nursing Education
Pandya, Samta P. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2022
This article reports the results of a study on the impact of an online meditation (OMP) program in building resilience and geriatric social work competencies among postgraduate social work students across contexts. The OMP was fairly effective (Cohen's d range=4.84-5.49, p[less than or equal to] 0.012), and students who participated in it…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Resilience (Psychology), Older Adults
Maschi, Tina; MacMillan, Thalia; Pardasani, Manoj; Lee, Ji Seon; Moreno, Claudia L. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2013
This study consists of an oral history project that partnered MSW students with community dwelling older adults from diverse backgrounds. It used a comparison group with a pretest and posttest design and a sample of 74 MSW students to evaluate changes in their confidence levels, future plans of working with older adults, and geriatric…
Descriptors: Social Work, Masters Programs, Aging (Individuals), Aging Education
Behrman, Gary; Mancini, Michael; Briar-Lawson, Katharine; Rizzo, Victoria M.; Baskind, Frank; Valentine, Carl – Journal of Social Work Education, 2006
Changing U.S. demographics and family composition are challenging social work education programs to reposition and reconsider how to prepare students for practice in the field of geriatrics. Implications for future social service and health care needs include ongoing training and education of students with competencies in serving geriatric…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Geriatrics, Social Work, Work Study Programs
Ivry, Joann; Lawrance, Frances P.; Damron-Rodriguez, JoAnn; Robbins, Virginia Cooke – Journal of Social Work Education, 2005
The Geriatric Social Work Practicum Partnership Program was funded to attract graduate students to the field of aging and to strengthen field education in geriatric social work. Rotation was selected to achieve the program's goals to provide students with exposure to the spectrum of care in geriatric social work services. This paper describes the…
Descriptors: Geriatrics, Social Work, Practicums, Graduate Students
