Are the Profession’s Education Standards Promoting the Religious Literacy Required for Twenty-First Century Social Work Practice?

Crisp, Beth R.; Dinham, Adam

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“…Despite the lack of an agreed-upon measurement, the applications of spirituality in social work expanded over the previous decades (Crisp, 2020). The growing acceptance of spirituality may be attributed to the advocacy of religious freedom and social justice (Hodge, 2007a, 2007b), the applications of EBP in faith-based interventions (Ferguson et al, 2007a; Ferguson et al, 2007b; Hodge, 2006, 2010) and the improvement of spiritual competency through education (Crisp & Dinham, 2019; Hodge et al, 2006).…”

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“…). The growing acceptance of spirituality may be attributed to the advocacy of religious freedom and social justice (Hodge, 2007a(Hodge, , 2007b, the applications of EBP in faithbased interventions (Ferguson et al, 2007a;Ferguson et al, 2007b;Hodge, 2006Hodge, , 2010 and the improvement of spiritual competency through education (Crisp & Dinham, 2019;Hodge et al, 2006). The third focus in cluster #0 points out the development directions for social work education and practice.…”

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Co-Word Analysis of First-Authored Publications Written by Top Cited Scholars of Social Work

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Duan

2023

Research on Social Work Practice

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Purpose: Bibliometric analysis has been widely adopted to measure individual productivity and discipline development. This study aims to advance the application of this method in the social work discipline. Method: Using the knowledge mapping technique in CiteSpace 5.8.R3, this study performed a co-word analysis of 1,007 first-authored articles published from 2000 to 2022 by 60 scholars who are listed among the top 2% most-cited scholars on social work and are holding doctoral degrees in the same field. Results: The cluster analysis identified seven main research hotspots and burst detection results revealed four groups of research frontiers, including spiritual and cultural needs, children's wellbeing, social work practices and development, and social work research, with bullying and peer victimization, particularly among African-American adolescents and youth in Chicago's southside, continuing to attract much research interest. Discussion: This study examines how individual works contribute to the conceptual structure and scientific evolution of social work.

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Co-Word Analysis of First-Authored Publications Written by Top Cited Scholars of Social Work

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2023

Research on Social Work Practice

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“…The overall approach taken in this research has been to analyse codes of ethics for the social work profession in relation to Dinham's framework for religious literacy (Dinham & Jones, 2012;Dinham & Francis, 2015;Dinham & Shaw, 2015). This has previously been utilised to explore religious literacy in a range of settings including standards for social work education (Crisp and Dinham, 2019a), higher education (Dinham and Francis, 2015), teacher education curriculum (Dinham and Shaw, 2015), regulatory standards for health and social care workers (Crisp and Dinham, 2019b) and also underpins a recent study about religious literacy among hospice care workers (Pentaris, 2019).…”

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“…In this context it has been proposed that the level of religious literacy among social workers is insufficient (Horwath & Lees, 2010;Shaw, 2018). Although social work education is beginning to address a need for religious literacy (Crisp and Dinham, 2019a), changing only the requirements for social work education does not address concerns that many experienced social workers lack the knowledge and skills to effectively work with service users around matters of religion and belief (Crisp, 2011). It is important to consolidate such spaces for change as widely as possible; hence the focus on codes of ethics here.…”

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Are Codes of Ethics Promoting Religious Literacy for Social Work Practice?

Crisp

Dinham

2019

Australian Social Work

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As codes of ethics play at least a symbolic, if not educational, role in highlighting and informing professional priorities, 16 codes of ethics for social work practice were examined for references to religion and belief and analysed against the four domains of Dinham's religious literacy framework. Although religion and belief are mentioned in all but two of the documents, approximately half the surveyed codes only mention religion and belief in respect of either knowledge or skills. Some recognise the need for social workers to be aware of their own biases, but very few recognise the need to explain what is meant by religion and belief, despite these terms being in flux. While codes of ethics can contribute to the development of religious literacy among social workers, this requires social workers who already have some religious literacy to actively participate when codes of ethics are being revised. Implications statement • It is an ethical imperative that social workers are able to engage with religion and belief. • Social worker require religious literacy, including skills and knowledge of different religions, recognition of the fluidity of the concepts religion and belief, and understanding one's own attitudes towards religion. • Codes of ethics can contribute to the development of religious literacy among social workers but this potential is often not realised as fully as it might be.

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“…Internationally, there is no agreement as to what social work education should involve and how it should occur ( Healy, 2019 ). While differences in regulatory standards may in part reflect different cultural contexts ( Banks, 2012 ), the extent of variation between countries in respect of standards for social work education suggests that much of the content, and how it is expressed, is somewhat by chance ( Crisp and Dinham, 2019 ) and based on tradition and beliefs about what works rather than empirical evidence ( Healy, 2019 ).…”

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Educating Social Workers in the Midst of COVID-19: The Value of a Principles-led Approach to Designing Educational Experiences during the Pandemic

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Stanford

Moulding

2021

The British Journal of Social Work

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Social work education in Australia in the midst of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) would not have been possible under our pre-pandemic accreditation standards due to assumptions about best practice in higher education that were not possible to enact during the pandemic. Rather than immediately arguing for a new set of standards, as Heads of Social Work programmes the authors of this paper promoted a principles-led approach to inform ‘the right’ way—in an ethical sense—of ensuring social work education could continue in Australia during the pandemic. This meant conceptualising the challenges of delivering social work education in a pandemic as being not only practical but also ethical in their nature. Using examples of how this approach guided the design of adaptive online teaching and field education placements at our universities, we consider the future possibilities for ethical and rules-based governance approaches to social work education. How students learn is changing and what they are learning will help them respond to the immediate and future needs arising from the pandemic. As such, rather than having their education compromised by COVID-19, social work students at the time of the pandemic and into the future may in fact benefit from the changes that have emerged during this period.

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Are the Profession’s Education Standards Promoting the Religious Literacy Required for Twenty-First Century Social Work Practice?

Abstract: This article analyses regulations and standards which frame social work education and practice across a set of English-speaking countries including the United Kingdom,

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

Co-Word Analysis of First-Authored Publications Written by Top Cited Scholars of Social Work

Co-Word Analysis of First-Authored Publications Written by Top Cited Scholars of Social Work

Are Codes of Ethics Promoting Religious Literacy for Social Work Practice?

Educating Social Workers in the Midst of COVID-19: The Value of a Principles-led Approach to Designing Educational Experiences during the Pandemic

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