Author: McCafferty, Paul

Source: The Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social Work, Volume 5, Number 3, 2004 , pp. 55-72(18)

Publisher: Whiting & Birch

Abstract:

Partnership Care West is a voluntary organisation that contracts with the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) to provide ten placements for social work students. NISCC is a statutory organisation, with responsibility for registering and regulating social care/work, improving standards in education and training and standardising practice in Northern Ireland NISCC (2003).

The students attend the practice learning centre and are then given placements in voluntary sector sites established by the centre. Traditionally, the students were supervised on a one to one basis using the long arm approach. In recent years however, the centre has developed a model for supervising these students in groups.

Building on my positive experience of conducting group supervision and to further my knowledge, skills and values in this area, I recently undertook an international comparison with the School of Social Work in Haifa Israel. This School has an already well established model for supervising students in groups and I hoped that I could learn something to help me develop my model further. I would like to thank Nava Arkin at the University of Haifa for her willingness to take part in this comparison and for her encouragement throughout. This article aims to outline my findings of the comparison and outline the theoretical constructs that make international comparisons in social work possible.

Keywords: INTERNATIONAL; GROUP SUPERVISION

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2004-08-01

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• The Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social Work covers all aspects of practice teaching ('field education') in workplace settings. It also considers the policy context and the changing expectations of service users, Government and the public. Material is practically relevant to what trainers, managers and workers actually do. A main theme is the effectiveness of training and education as preparation for work.

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  The Journal sponsors the annual International Practice Teaching and Field Education Conference.

  This was previously published as Journal of Practice Teaching in Social Work and Health.

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