Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Arts and Humanities (1)
- Clinical and Medical Social Work (1)
- Education (1)
- Educational Methods (1)
- Educational Psychology (1)
-
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1)
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (1)
- Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling (1)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (1)
- Mental and Social Health (1)
- Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (1)
- Other Mental and Social Health (1)
- Other Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Psychiatric and Mental Health (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Social Work
Themes In The Supervision Of Social Care Students In Ireland: Building Resilience, Fiona Mcsweeney
Themes In The Supervision Of Social Care Students In Ireland: Building Resilience, Fiona Mcsweeney
Articles
The field placement is core to the education of social care practitioners and practice teachers’ behaviours influence the learning and development of future practitioners. However the practice teacher role is complex with responsibilities to the agency, clients and the student (Davys & Beddoe, 2000). Twenty practice teachers were interviewed individually about their views of their role, in particular what they saw as most and least important. Inductive thematic analysis resulted in the identification of five themes 1) the nature of the work; 2) acceptance of individuality; 3) commonality and differences from staff; 4) focus on positives and 5) practice involves …
The First-Year University Experience For Sexual Minority Students: A Grounded Theory Exploration, Edward Alessi, Beth Sapiro, Sarilee Kahn, Shelley L. Craig
The First-Year University Experience For Sexual Minority Students: A Grounded Theory Exploration, Edward Alessi, Beth Sapiro, Sarilee Kahn, Shelley L. Craig
Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This exploratory study used grounded theory to understand the role of minority stress on the first-year experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and questioning emerging adults attending a university in the Northeastern part of the United States. Twenty-one lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and questioning sophomores participated in focus groups asking them to reflect on their first year of university. Themes suggest that participants tackle multiple challenges simultaneously: the developmental task of increased independence and stressors specific to lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and questioning adults such as encountering stigma. Furthermore, participants manifested resilience in response to minority stress. Participants joined campus …