Intro to Social Work Chapter 3

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Social work education
Is a phenomenon of the twentieth century.
Social work's prominence among the professions ...
Results from community demands for trained staff to administer a multibillion-dollar human service system.
Social work has moved form practice-oriented, agency-forced training to..
Colleges and universities having status with other professional schools and academic colleges.
Social work education provides excellent opportunities for...
Students in the under-graduate, master's and doctoral programs.
The Master's Degree
Has been acclaimed in the past as the basic professional social work degree.
In response to mounting pressures for manpower in the human service,...
Practice degree programs have been instituted at the bachelor's degree level.
Curricular models
Have been developed for professional education at the doctoral, master's, and bachelor's degree levels.
Undergraduate social work programs
Have become very popular, and the number of programs has increased dramatically.
May 1982
The board of directors of CSWE adopted a new curriculum policy staement for both the MSW and BSW programs. This is the first time that the BSW education program's expectations were included in the seminal document.
In 2001, the board of directors of CSWE adopted an...
Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) that defined the purpose of social work education.
The CSWE ( the only official accrediting body)...
Addressed itself to the important problems of structure and quality in social work education.
Because of the complexity of modern society..
CSWE has required schools on ALL levels to stress generalist practice and generalist prespective.
Social worker needs to ...
understand and be able to work with the interaction of multiple human systems.
The focus and theoretical depth of the BSW level is different from...
The MSW level, but the following material from the 2001 EPAS gives the basic parameters of the foundation areas:Value and EthicsDiversityPopulations-at-Risk and Social/Economic JusticeHuman Behavior and the Social EnviromentSocial Welfare Policy and ServicesSocial work practiceReseachField Education
A recent shift in the curricula of Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral programs, in social work education has incorporated the concept of "best practices"
Best Practice means stressing the importance of empirical research in selectiving interventions and designing social service programs.