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Social Work Field Directors

Foundations for Excellence

UPDATED TO REFLECT 2015 EPAS

EDITED by Cindy Hunter, Julia Moen, Miriam Raskin

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Professors Hunter, Moen, and Raskin and their contributing authors present essential knowledge and skills supported by empirical research to shape field policies and curricula. Social Work Field Directors: Foundations for Excellence is an orientation and desk reference for new and experienced field directors to develop, execute, maintain, and evaluate field education programs. This indispensable resource illustrates how to build effective and efficient programs and provide leadership that promotes sustainable changes to improve the quality of existing field programs.Enhance your students' field and classroom experience with Social Work Field Directors: Foundations for Excellence. This book delivers a wealth of information that makes clear the effect field directors have on the practice community. It sets standards for program quality and student competence, and brings community practice perspectives back to social work programs.This book is a desk reference for new and experienced field directors to develop, execute, maintain, and evaluate field education programs and provide leadership for existing programs that promotes sustainable changes to improve quality. Social Work Field Directors offers: methods for developing programs that meet EPAS standards case studies on sexual harassment, professional development, placing students, distance learning, gatekeeping, and more coverage of the varying needs and goals of diverse social work field programs including BSW and MSW, rural and urban schools, and online programs Critical issues in field education are examined including maintaining partnerships with practice settings, placing students, training field instructors, role of field liaisons and seminars, evaluation of student learning, legal and ethical issues, safety, gatekeeping, technology, professional development, and other contemporary issues. It discusses the 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) relevant to field and proposes multiple ways to achieve compliance.

 

 

 

 

Note: Cover design and material from Social Work Field Directors: Foundations for Excellence
by C.A. Hunter, J. K. Moen, and M. S. Raskin (Eds.), (2014) Chicago: Lyceum.
Copyright 2014 by Lyceum Books, Inc. Reprinted with permission.