Outcomes focused user involvement in social work education: applying knowledge to practice

Autor: Susan Levy, Rowan Aiton, Ryan McNeil, Jade Doig, Liz Hunter, John Dow, Shireen Brown
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Social Work Education. 35:866-877
ISSN: 1470-1227
0261-5479
DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2016.1240160
Popis: This paper discusses an innovative approach connecting service user and carer involvement (SUCI) in social work education to social work practice. The research team, comprised service users, carers, social work students and module leader, worked collaboratively democratising the research process. At the University of Dundee, a core social work module facilitates students to spend 15 h with a service user and/or carer (host) gaining a unique insight into their everyday lives. During this time, hosts and students discuss two policy practice questions, responses to these questions are generating annual qualitative data, with study findings being disseminated at local and national level. The experiential learning students acquire from spending time with their host becomes the site of knowledge creation through involvement that is applied to practice. This paper reports on the narratives emerging from the longitudinal data (2012–2015, n = 90) on the changing landscape of social care in Scotland and the...
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