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Reframing Social Care Within The Context Of Professional Regulation: Towards An Integrative Framework For Practice Teaching Within Social Care Education, Jennifer Mcgarr, Margaret Fingleton
Reframing Social Care Within The Context Of Professional Regulation: Towards An Integrative Framework For Practice Teaching Within Social Care Education, Jennifer Mcgarr, Margaret Fingleton
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
As CORU commence regulation of social care education, educators are tasked with ensuring that graduates meet the threshold standards set by the Social Care Workers Registration Board (SCWRB) (2017a) in the Standards of Proficiency for Social Care Workers. This paper focuses on Domain 3 of these standards which outlines the proficiencies required to deliver a safe, effective and quality service, including proficiencies pertaining to assessment, intervention and evaluation. There is limited literature in Ireland in relation to how assessment, intervention and evaluation take place in diverse social care settings. As social care educators with qualifications and professional experience in social …
Developing Anti-Oppressive Practice With The Person-In-Society: Reflexivity And Social Work, Stan Houston, Gerry Marshall
Developing Anti-Oppressive Practice With The Person-In-Society: Reflexivity And Social Work, Stan Houston, Gerry Marshall
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
Not much has been written on the subject of reflexivity in social work practice. Taking a definition of reflexivity that encourages the inquirer to consider how various psycho-social positions and power-saturated social spheres have shaped individual meaning and narrative, this article outlines a reflexive model that can be applied by social workers to enhance their understanding and implementation of anti-oppressive practice. The model builds on earlier theoretical work and evaluation carried out by the lead author but updates it by including new theoretical insights from both authors. The conceptualisation centres on five imbricated and power-saturated domains of understanding: the domains …
Placing Irish Social Work In A Global Context: Assembling International Comparisons Through The Literature, Susan Flynn, Leigh-Ann Sweeney
Placing Irish Social Work In A Global Context: Assembling International Comparisons Through The Literature, Susan Flynn, Leigh-Ann Sweeney
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
There is an absence of literature that places social work practice in Ireland within a global context. This circumstance is obstructive to students and practitioners of social work in Ireland, who must increasingly demonstrate understanding of social work as an international endeavour. Ireland is also steadily more globalised and multi-cultural. In social work, related changes underway include increased transience of persons across national lines, and complex transnational social problems. In this context, social workers may broaden their understanding of Irish practice through drawing upon learning from elsewhere. To facilitate this, critical commentary on the literature in this article operates around …