Using a Strengths-Based Perspective to Change Perceptions: An Exploratory Study
Author:
Rice Karen1,
Girvin Heather1
Affiliation:
1. Millersville University, Millersville, PA
Abstract
Child welfare is a field plagued with negative perceptions, which have the potential to influence how caseworkers approach their practice with families. As a result, a child welfare course emphasizing the strengths-based approach to practice with families was developed to better prepare students for engaging families and building a helping alliance. The researchers sought to examine whether this new course exerted a positive influence on undergraduate social work students' perception of the parent/caseworker relationship. Compared to undergraduate students not enrolled in this course, at post-test students enrolled in the Child Welfare course more positively perceived the parent/caseworker relationship than they did at pretest. Implications for social work practice and pedagogy are discussed.
Publisher
The Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Inc.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
Cited by
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