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Equipping ourselves for practice: The continuing professional development of social workers in the occupied palestinian territories
Tác giả
Lindsay J.
Năm xuất bản
2011
Source title
Social Work Education in Countries of the East: Issues and Challenges
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Social work is a relatively new profession in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt) and is being developed in a context of ongoing political conflict and acute social need. Lindsay, Baidoun and Faraj (2007) in their overview of the emergence of social work in the oPt outline the salient features of social work education and some of the challenges facing the future development of the profession. At present (2010), social work education programmes in the oPt are offered only at Bachelors level within liberal arts degree frameworks where social work may be taken as a "major" or "minor" subject. Those who graduate from these programmes have a sound education, but sometimes feel that they lack professional knowledge and skills needed to intervene effectively with individuals and families. Only a few graduates are actually employed as social workers per se. Structures which require the deployment of social workers are only being developed. Graduates in social work have found employment in four main areas of service provision: school counselling mainly with the Ministry of Education (the largest employer of psycho-social workers); with the Ministry of Social Affairs, which employs social workers mainly in the role of assessing need for financial support (with only seventeen social workers in total designated as child protection social workers); with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) which provides services to refugees and with local, national and international non-governmental organisations This chapter provides a brief contextual overview of the historical, educational and institutional arrangements relating to social work education in the oPt. It then examines some of the strategies that social workers employed in these sectors have taken to develop themselves professionally and discusses the educational and policy sector response. Three illustrative case studies of those taking different post-qualifying Professional Diploma programmes are used, namely School Counselling; Professional Supervision and Child and Family Practice, to convey their perspectives of their on-going learning and practice drawn from surveys and interviews undertaken in 2009. Conclusions are drawn about the need not only to consider the initial education of social workers but also the importance of developing professional educational frameworks to equip and support social workers in their work. © 2011 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
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Book chapter
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Scopus