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Kim M. Anderson – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2025
This article aims to provide an overview of an introductory MSW research course that introduced students to participatory action research (PAR) by investigating adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among social work majors at a public university. Integrating trauma-informed pedagogy with Kolb's experiential learning model provided a framework for…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Social Work, Counselor Training, Masters Programs
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LeCloux, Mary – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2021
Although social workers are increasingly likely to encounter suicidal clients in their practice, many are under-prepared to address the issue of suicide, and significant deficiencies in suicide education exist in social work graduate programs. This study examined the acceptability and effectiveness of a brief yet comprehensive online module…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Suicide, Graduate Students
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Davis, Ashley; Mirick, Rebecca G. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2015
Many social work students feel anxious when taking a statistics course. Their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors after learning statistics are less known. However, such information could help instructors support students' ongoing development of statistical knowledge. With a sample of MSW students (N = 101) in one program, this study examined…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Social Work, Masters Programs, Student Attitudes
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Einbinder, Susan Dana – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2014
Research anxiety significantly declined in a diverse sample of 59 MSW students in their first-year hybrid online research course in which the instructor used an array of innovative educational techniques empirically proven to reduce this phenomenon. The pretest/posttest study, the standardized survey instruments used, and a summary of these…
Descriptors: Student Research, Anxiety, Masters Programs, Social Work
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Lalayants, Marina – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2012
Although there has been some attention in the literature to such issues as students' attitudes toward statistics, instructors are still constantly faced with the challenge to engage students; understand their perceptions, motivations, and interests; and deal with their reluctance and negative attitudes toward the field of statistics. The purpose…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Statistics
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Chung, Irene W. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2010
Students' frustration with the lack of measurable progress in their practice has always been a major obstacle for them in learning to use themselves differentially and to effect changes in their clients (Saari, 1986). This article discusses the author's approach to tending to students' emotions as a central component in organizing and teaching in…
Descriptors: Empathy, Emotional Development, Social Work, Teaching Methods
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Konrad, Shelley Cohen – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2010
This article explores the relational learning model for teaching clinical social work practice. Evaluations of a course on loss, grief, and death illustrate that relational learning methods enhanced students' relational and communicative knowledge and skills, and contributed to a transformative learning process. Relational learning is a method of…
Descriptors: Grief, Transformative Learning, Social Work, Teaching Methods
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Caldwell, Paul Elliott – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2007
Social work students enrolled in a graduate-level course in substance abuse (N = 450, over nine years) assessed their own "mood-altering" behaviors (i.e., stress-reduction strategies and leisure-time activities), abstained from one or more of these activities for one week, then completed a written summary of their personal bio-psycho-social…
Descriptors: Social Work, Graduate Students, Substance Abuse, Identification