‘Back to our Roots?’ Re-visiting psychoanalytically-informed baby and young child observation in the education of student social workers
Hingley-Jones, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5228-1244, Parkinson, Clare and Allain, Lucille
(2016)
‘Back to our Roots?’ Re-visiting psychoanalytically-informed baby and young child observation in the education of student social workers.
Journal of Social Work Practice, 30
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pp. 249-265.
ISSN 0265-0533
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(doi:10.1080/02650533.2016.1215974)
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Abstract
While there is a well-established literature on psychoanalytically-informed baby and young child observation in social work education, little has been published recently. This paper reviews the rationale for its use, evaluating its impact on students’ learning in the light of contemporary policy and practice contexts facing social work education. Analysis of feedback gained from a recent cohort, identifies three ways in which learning through baby and young child observation contributes: firstly, students encounter and learn about the complexity of child development from the direct experience of observing and secondly, observing facilitates the development of important skills for practice; students’ ‘use of self’. Thirdly, through observing, students describe how they develop the capacity to take-up and sustain a professional role. Well-structured teaching and learning through observation is therefore shown to provide a rigorous, theoretically- grounded contribution to the training of university-based social work students entering this complex and challenging professional field.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords (uncontrolled): | social work practice, baby and young child observation, use of self, social work education, readiness for direct practice |
Research Areas: | A. > School of Health and Education > Mental Health, Social Work and Interprofessional Learning |
Item ID: | 20916 |
Notes on copyright: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Social Work Practice on 06/12/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02650533.2016.1215974 |
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Depositing User: | Helen Hingley-Jones |
Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2016 12:03 |
Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 21:24 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/20916 |
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