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Finding Your Way Through Field Work
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Finding Your Way Through Field Work
A Social Work Student's Guide



264 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Written from the perspective of long-standing field director Urania E. Glassman, this practical guide helps BSW and first and second year MSW students successfully navigate field work. Vignettes, examples from field programs, and over 75 case illustrations further an applied understanding of every step in the field work process, highlighting student accomplishments, obstacles, and common dilemmas. Unique in its experiential approach, this applied text reinforces true learning in the field.
 
Chapter 1: Introduction To Field Work: Experiential Education
Developing Competency in Field Work

 
How to Maximize Experiential Learning in the Field

 
Framework of This Text

 
 
Chapter 2: Student Qualities and the Transformational Process
Elements That Students Bring to Field Work

 
Transformation in Field Work

 
Five Elements of Field Work

 
 
Chapter 3: Securing Agency Acceptance
Agency Endorsement of Student as Worker With Clients

 
Preparing for Initial Agency Meeting

 
The Initial Agency Meeting

 
Qualities That Agencies Are Looking For

 
Barriers to Acceptance By the Agency

 
 
Chapter 4: Developing Social Work Competencies
Getting Started on the Right Foot at Field Placement

 
Field Education as the "Signature Pedagogy" of Social Work

 
Social Work Competencies and Practice Behaviors

 
Social Work Competencies and Your School’s Curriculum: Foundation Field Work

 
Social Work Competencies and Your School’s Curriculum: Second-Year Field Work

 
 
Chapter 5: The Relationship Between Field Instructor and Student
Roles of Field Instructors

 
Roles of Students

 
 
Chapter 6: Process Recording and Other Educational Tools
Purpose of Process Recording

 
Outline for Narrative Process Recording

 
Additional Formats for Process Recording

 
Further Educational Tools

 
 
Chapter 7: The Relationship Between Faculty Field Advisor and Student
Faculty Field Advisor’s Roles

 
Roles of Students

 
 
Chapter 8: Timelines for Student Development
BSW Program Field Work Timeline

 
MSW Program Timeline for Field Work

 
Challenges For All Students

 
Progression of Learning

 
Block Placement Designs

 
 
Chapter 9: Developing Social Work Competencies in the Foundation Year
Review of the Social Work Practice Competencies

 
First-Year Competency Development Exemplars

 
Moving Forward With Foundation Competencies

 
Social Work Code of Ethics as Foundation for Competent Practice

 
 
Chapter 10: Advancing Competencies in the Second Year
Getting Started

 
Second-Year Specialization Exemplars

 
Social Work Code of Ethics as Foundation for Competent Practice

 
 
Chapter 11: Employment and Field Placement at the Same Site
Guidelines For Developing A Field Placement Within Your Agency Of Employment

 
Common Problems And Pitfalls

 
 
Chapter 12: Managing Stressful Relationships and Demands
Managing Stressful Relationships With Clients

 
Managing Stressful Relationships With Your Field Instructor

 
Managing Issues At The Agency

 
Managing Demands Of Family And Friends

 
 
Chapter 13: Utilizing Self-Awareness in Social Work Practice
Using Your History and Issues to Enhance Your Work

 
When Your Personal Issues Get in the Way

 
Managing the Countertransference and Transference (Hepworth, Rooney, Rooney, Strom-Gottfried, & Larson, 2010)

 
Using Your History To Help Others

 
 
Chapter 14: Looking Toward the Future
Ending First-Year or Senior-Year Field Work

 
Transition from First- to Second-Year Field Work

 
Transition from BSW to Career or to MSW Program

 
Transition from MSW to Career

 

“Glassman helps BSW and MSW social work students navigate the field placement component of social work education.”

Janet Tyler
Cairn University

“Use of the nine core competencies makes this an excellent choice for the Practicum instructor.”

Herbert I. Burson
Troy University

“The importance of self-awareness and one’s own history is highlighted in a way that makes sense.”

Staci Jensen-Hart
Fordham University

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter 1

Chapter 4


Urania E. Glassman

Urania Ernest Glassman, MA, MSW, DSW, LCSWDr. Glassman’s role as director of field instruction spans 30 years. Her social work specializations are field education, group work, and clinical practice. She is currently Principal Investigator of a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - HRSA for Wurzweiler School of Social Work Yeshiva University to train 2nd year students in clinical field placements with high risk adolescents and transitional age youth. Her recent volume with Sage, Group Work: A Humanistic and Skills Building Approach 2nd Ed., provides underpinning for the training design. Dr. Glassman... More About Author

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