Fieldwork In Settings Research Articles

The Level I Fieldwork Process

This paper reports the results of a nationwide study in which the factors that relate to the overall Level I fieldwork implementation were compared across a variety of occupational therapy fieldwork settings. Two questionnaires were used to collect data: One was completed by 395 Level I fieldwork site supervisors, and the other by faculty representatives from 40 professional-level academic occupational therapy programs. The data showed that there were more similarities than differences among the fieldwork sites, thus suggesting that a common process is used in most fieldwork placements. The primary factors that differentiated among the various fieldwork settings were variables that tended to describe the settings demographically (e.g., type of employment setting, funding sources). Interesting differences were found among the various fieldwork settings between the amount of supervision given to Level I students and the amount of independent, treatment-oriented performance by the students.

Guardianship Under the Mental Health Act 1983 Practice in Leicestershire

Journal Article Guardianship Under the Mental Health Act 1983 Practice in Leicestershire Get access Irene Dooher Irene Dooher Irene Dooher is a field social worker in Leicestershire Social Services. She obtained her BA and generic social work qualification from Bradford University in 1969 and has worked as a social worker in hospital and field-work settings. Address for correspondence: Leicestershire Social Services, Leicester City (West) Division, 1 Grey Friars, Leicester LEI 5PA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 19, Issue 2, April 1989, Pages 129–135, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/19.2.129 Published: 01 April 1989

Fieldworker blues: Emotional stress and research underinvolvement in fieldwork settings

Field research leads participant observers to develop emotional responses that on the one hand preserve the symbolic order of these encounters, but on the other hand disengage these observers from critical research activity. Field research on a political campaigns in Boston and San Diego serve as examples.

Measurement of Alcohol Consumption in Fieldwork Settings

Measurement of Alcohol Consumption in Fieldwork Settings

A Comparison of Part-Time and Full-Time Degree Students: The One-Year Residence Program Advisors' Study

Part-time MS W programs are increasing nationwide in response to the growth of the adult student constituency and the financial constraints of BA-level social workers who cannot forego employment to attend traditional two-year MSW programs. Some skepticism exists, however, regarding part-time programs' educational effectiveness and the quality of their graduates as professional practitioners. This paper describes and compares MSW students in the traditional two-year program and those in an innovative part-time degree program at the Hunter College School of Social Work. It presents findings on the differences in the performance levels and field-work settings of part-time and full-time students, with implications for part-time program evaluation and improvement.

A Modified Rules Approach to Workplace Industrial Relations

This paper makes a contribution to defining the scope of study in workplace industrial relations. Applications of a modified rules approach to industrial relations to the fieldwork setting of a large industrial construction site leads to interpretations and clarifications which give the subject a distinct focus while avoiding excessive overlap with other social science fields of study.

Towards a Methodology of Action Research

ABSTRACTAction research has emerged as a particular form of applied social science investigation in attempts to develop useful ways of trying out and evaluating social policy innovations. Despite a variety of contributions to the debate about its methodology, action research remains a term that is employed very vaguely to describe all kinds of design that include some combination of the two elements of action and research. This paper outlines the methods that were adopted in the National Children's Bureau series of action research studies, where the research team attempted to evaluate experiments in which they also actively intervened. The three elements of the field-work setting – programme, process and product – were all important aspects of the research. The inevitable tensions between the demands of evaluation and those of close involvement raise difficult questions of research design. A model of action research is presented as a constructive way of reconciling the search for objectivity and reliability with the advantages of involvement in the definition of objectives and methods.

Preparing Social Work Students for Life-Transition Counseling within the Human Behavior Sequence

Abstract Life-transition group counseling is described as a highly effective crisis intervention modality that is becoming an important part of social work practice. Students can learn this method in the first year Human Behavior and the Social Environment course through emphasis on developmental and accidental transition points in the life cycle. Students also are given practical guidelines for initiating intervention groups in different fieldwork settings, based on crisis intervention theory and on currently evolving practice models. Students are encouraged to write term papers about certain life transitions as a way of acquiring the necessary knowledge for this new social work method.

A Social Problems Approach to Gerontology in Social Work Education

Abstract This paper proposes a social problems emphasis to gerontology in social work education which acknowledges the fact that the elderly are handicapped and discriminated against by social values, attitudes, and practices. The traditional integrative approach has been ineffective in educating and sensitizing students to problems and needs of the aged. The social problems emphasis is discussed as related to future manpower needs, enlightened social workers as citizens, and advocacy for the elderly. A proposal for schools is presented, with implications for practice, fieldwork settings, research, and classroom instruction.

New Methods of Field Instruction in the U.S.A.–An Overview

Related forces are converging to induce strain in the traditional model of field instruction in the U.S.A. The role of the social worker with complex social problems and therefore some new views of the nature of the profession is behind the reconceptualization of social work practice at the Master's level. These new curriculum ideas are making impossible demands on already overcrowded traditional field work settings, hence innovation. During recent study and travel in the U.S.A., the writer explored new methods in field work experience and these are described in this paper. Comparisons with and evaluations for the Australian scene are left for the reader to make.

Sex Differences in Academic Rank and Salary among Science Doctorates in Teaching

Employment information, reported by approximately 2,700 recent science doctorates to the 1964 National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel, indicates that the beginning academic rank of new scientists in college and university teaching positions is unrelated to sex. Over time, women in the natural sciences continue to receive promotions comparable to those of their male cohorts. However, women in the social sciences tend to be promoted less rapidly than men. Salary differentials, on the other hand, exist in both beginning and later academic positions, regardless of major field specialty, work setting, or academic rank. These data support the contentions of women doctorates that salary discrimination is practiced more severely than is discrimination regarding tenure or promotions.

Paleontology and geology of the Badwater Creek area, central Wyoming. Part 1. History of field work and geological setting

Paleontology and geology of the Badwater Creek area, central Wyoming. Part 1. History of field work and geological setting