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Developing Social Work Skills In Online Environments: What Online Msw Graduates Tell Us, Samuel W. Gioia
Developing Social Work Skills In Online Environments: What Online Msw Graduates Tell Us, Samuel W. Gioia
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Social work education is an academic discipline that prepares students to support individual, family, and community wellbeing, and to advance policies for social equity. Despite the increasing use of online education for social work, many social work faculty believe that online Master of Social Work (MSW) programs do not adequately prepare graduates for direct practice (engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation) with vulnerable populations. Students from an online MSW program at a midsized urban research university were interviewed to learn (a) how well an online MSW prepared these students for direct practice with individuals, families, and communities; and (b) what instructional …