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Professional education and private practice: is there a disconnect?
Robert G Green1, Frank R Baskind, Brandi E Mustian
1School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA. oceansands@charter.net
Social Work
|June 22, 2007
Summary
Most social work students aim for private practice, yet graduate programs inadequately prepare them. This disconnect highlights a need to align social work education with evolving career paths in private practice.
Area of Science:
- Social Work Education
- Clinical Social Work
- Macro Social Work
Background:
- A significant number of Master of Social Work (MSW) students aspire to careers in private practice.
- There is a perceived gap in how graduate social work programs prepare students for private practice settings.
- The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) membership holds views on both private practice and social work education.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the private practice career intentions of MSW graduate students.
- To assess the preparedness of graduate students for private practice by their educational institutions.
- To understand the perspectives of graduate deans and NASW members (clinical and macro) on private practice and social work education.
Main Methods:
- A national study utilizing mailed questionnaires.
- Data collected from MSW graduate student members of NASW (n=271).
- Responses gathered from graduate deans (n=104) and NASW clinical (n=278) and macro (n=152) members.
Main Results:
- A majority of MSW students intend to pursue full-time private practice.
- Graduate schools largely do not offer specific private practice content, and faculty may discourage such aspirations.
- Most NASW members, across clinical and macro fields, believe graduate schools should educate students for private practice.
Conclusions:
- A significant disconnect exists between social work education and the realities of private practice.
- The shift of social work labor from public to private sectors may have led to a bifurcation in social work education.
- Recommendations for aligning social work education with practice, including short- and long-term initiatives, are proposed.
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