A Field Guide for Social Workers: Applying Your Generalist Training

Product Description

Integrating theory with practice, A Field Guide for Social Workers: Applying Your Generalist Training helps students understand and overcome the challenges of field education. This comprehensive text provides the necessary tools to develop and demonstrate core competencies set forth by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) using author Shelagh Larkin’s generalist field education approach grounded in generalist practice literature. Integrative activities and reflection questions directly apply generalist training to field experience. Students will be equipped to meet the goals of the field and realize their potential as generalist practitioners.

Review

“It is extremely readable; provides integrative activities that are well structured in every chapter. The importance of knowledge, values, and skills are interwoven in the fabric of this text in such a way that their importance to the foundation of the social work profession and generalist practice at every level and interaction is evident. I have long waited for a text like this. I have found my social work practicum textbook prince after kissing a lot of textbook frogs.”          
— Pamela Higgins Saulsberry,

“Finally―a text that captures the many concepts and challenges experienced in field and provides useful and practical ways in which students and field instructors can navigate those challenges together.”
— Kiana Webb-Robinson

“This is a practical field workbook that intertwines practice theory and field practice into a toolbox that can be used by students, field instructors, and faculty.” 
— Michelle Meer

“This text was written with the goal of integration of fieldwork practice and the competencies of social work education. The activities and infusion of competencies help the teacher teach and make it possible to have meaningful online class time in a course that is traditionally live.”
— Jennifer A. Pax

About the Author

Shelagh Larkin is the Director for Field Education at Xavier University. In the role of field director, Larkin is responsible for all aspects of the field program including recruiting sites, placing students, training field instructors, conducting liaison site visits, and teaching the integrative seminar course. All of these duties have provided her with a comprehensive and unique view of the needs of students and field instructors. Larkin has published and presented at numerous national conferences in the areas of generalist field education, spiritually sensitive professional development, and interprofessional teaming. Larkin has also been awarded several grants most notable being CSWE's Gero-Ed Center Curriculum Development Institute grant.