Service User Involvement in Social Work Education

ISBN-13: 9780367592790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 252 str.

Hugh McLaughlin; Joe Duffy; Brendan McKeever

Opis

This book provides an international perspective on the development of service user and carer involvement in social work education, reporting on examples from eight countries. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Work Education.

Spis treści

Introduction – Part 1: Service user and carer involvement in social work education – where are we now?  Introduction – Part 2: Service user and carer involvement in social work education – where are we now?  1. Outcomes focused user involvement in social work education: applying knowledge to practice  2. Lessons from a comparative study of user involvement  3. Belonging to the library: humanising the space for social work education  4. A journey of embedding mental health lived experience in social work education  5. Involving People with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities in Social Work Education: Building Inclusive Practice  6. The benefits of prisoner participation in interdisciplinary learning  7. Gaining by giving? Peer research into service user and carer perceptions of inclusivity in Higher Education  8. Being a service user and a social work academic: balancing expert identities  9. Role-played interviews with service users in preparation for social work practice: exploring students’ and service users’ experience of co-produced workshops  10. Learning from service users’ involvement: a research about changing stigmatizing attitudes in social work students  11. The Meaningful Involvement of Service Users in Social Work Education: Examples from Belgium and The Netherlands  12. Mend the gap – strategies for user involvement in social work education  13. Social work undergraduates and service users as co-learners and researchers  14. A critical examination of the knowledge contribution service user and carer involvement brings to social work education  15. Expert by experience research as grounding for social work education  16. From service-user to social work examiner: not a bridge too far  17. What difference does it make? Findings of an impact study of service user and carer involvement on social work students’ subsequent practice  18. Life at the other end: participatory film-making, power and the ‘common third’

O autorze

Hugh McLaughlin is Professor of Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research interests include keeping service user involvement in social work education and research honest, critical professional practice and the co-creation of learning organisations. He is editor-in-chief of Social Work Education: The International Journal.

Joseph Duffy is a Lecturer in Social Work at Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. He is particularly interested in the development of innovative approaches to advancing user- and carer-based knowledge in helping students understand challenging curriculum topics such as the impact of conflict, social work values and international social work.

Brendan McKeever is an independent user researcher and comes from a user background. He has been involved in user involvement issues for over 20 years and has written extensively on issues impacting families of disabled children.

June Sadd is an independent survivor consultant in research, training, education and user involvement/co-production. She works with many social work programmes in England, and with national organisations such as the Social Care Institute for Excellence and Mind, using long-term personal experience as a survivor, and 23 years of work experience in health and social care as a survivor activist.