Training of child welfare social workers: American, British, and Ukrainian approaches
Keywords:
children at risk, courses, curriculum, social work with children, training of social workers.
Abstract
The article considers the training of child social workers in the UK, the USA, and Ukraine. The study aim relates the structure, content, and forms of training. Theoretical, and comparative methods allowed to generalize the available data on the issue current state of professional training of social workers. The results of the study allow concluding that the common features of American, British, and Ukrainian system of social workers training for the work with children are: (i) the use of a variety of teaching forms, methods, and technologies; (ii) the curriculum orientation on the unity of theoretical and practical components; courses addressing direct work with children and families, social policy, social services for children and families with much attention to the aspects of adoption, foster care, juvenile justice, child abuse, child neglect, etc. The research outcomes testify that the principal difference between models of social workers training is the accent of curriculum in the UK and the USA on the issues of preventive care, social and legal protection of children, and in Ukraine − on the deviation’s correction, on the therapeutic assistance.
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Best Accredited Colleges (2021). Child Social Worker Classes and Courses Overview. Retrieved from: http://education-portal.com/articles/Child_Social_Worker_Classes_and_Courses_Overview.html
Connolly, M., & Morris, K. (2011). Understanding child and family welfare: statutory responses to children at risk. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Davey, J., & Bigmore, J. (2009). Introducing child care social work: contemporary policy and practice. Exeter: Learning Matters.
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Dhengle, A. (2016). Student-centric approach to field work in social work education. IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies, 4(3), 381−386.
Ensher, G.L., Clark, D.A., & Songer, N.S. (2009). Families, infants, & young children at risk: pathways to best practice. Baltimore, PA: Paul H. Brookes Publ.
Hepworth, D., Rooney, R., Strom-Gottfried, K., & Dewberry Rooney, G. (2013). Direct social work practice: theory and skills. CA: Brooks/Cole.
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Lane, K. L., Gresham, F. M., O'Shaughnessy, T. E. (2002). Interventions for children with or at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
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Mallick, A., (2007). Field work training in social work curriculum reflections on learning and teaching. Indian Journal of Social Work, 68(4), 573−580.
Maluccio, A., Pine, B., & Tracy, E. (2002). Social work practice with families and children. NY: Columbia University Press.
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Morales, A.T., Sheafor, B.W., & Scott, M.E. (2009). Social work: a profession of many faces. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Nichols, Q. (2011). Connecting core competencies: a workbook for social work students. Boston: Pearson.
Panok, V.H., & Levchenko, K.B. (Ed.). (2014). Social-pedagogical and psychological work with children in conflict and post-conflict period. Kyiv: «La Strada – Ukrayini».
Petrochko, Z.V. (2011). Theory and practice of social and pedagogical provision of the rights of children in difficult living conditions (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine.
Pichkar, O.P. (2002). The system of training of social work specialists in the UK (Unpublished candidate dissertation). Ternopil V.Hnatyuk State Pedagogical University.
Renʹ, L.V. (2011). Social-pedagogical conditions of preventive work with street children (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). M. Dragomanov National Pedagogical University.
Rogowski, S. (2013). Critical social work with children and families: theory, context and practice. Bristol: Policy Press.
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Shpenyk, S.Z. (2016). Training of social workers for the work with at-risk children in the USA and the UK (Unpublished candidate dissertation). Ternopil V.Hnatyuk State Pedagogical University.
Sobchak, N.M. (2004). Content and forms of professional training of social workers in the system of the US life-long education (Unpublished candidate dissertation). Ternopil V.Hnatyuk State Pedagogical University.
The complete university guide (2023). Colleges and universities in the UK. Retrieved from: http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?s=Social+Work
The Council of Social Work Education. (2023). Accreditation of social work programs. Retrieved from: https://www.cswe.org/Accreditation.aspx
Tsybulʹko, L.H. (2014). Theory and practice of social-pedagogical work with orphans and children deprived of parental care in conditions of regional educational environment (Unpublished doctoral dissertation) Luhansk T. Shevchenko National University.
Tymenko, V.M. (2003). Professional training of social workers in the higher educational establishments of the USA and Ukraine: similarities and differences. Kyiv: Avtoreferat.
Tyuptya, L.T., & Ivanova, I.V. (2008). Social work: theory and practice. Kyiv: Znannya.
U.S. News on Education. (2022). Ranked Social Work Schools. Retrieved from: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/social-work-rankings?_sort=rank-asc
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Zvyeryeva, I.D., & Laktionova, G.M. (Ed.). (2004). Social work in Ukraine. Kyiv: Center for Educational Literature.
Published
2023-03-30
How to Cite
Bartosh, O., Katsora, O., Novosad, K., Palagusynets, R., & Shumytska, H. (2023). Training of child welfare social workers: American, British, and Ukrainian approaches. Amazonia Investiga, 12(62), 273-281. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2023.62.02.27
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