The Secret Curriculum

Preston‐Shoot, Michael

doi:10.1080/17496535.2011.606225

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“…Although this process of practising defensively can begin during students' practice placements as part of their professional training, there has been little focus on this within social work education. This can leave students feeling that there is a gap between their practical experiences on placement and their learning in the classroom ( Preston-Shoot, 2012 ).…”

Section: Introduction and Rationale For The Studymentioning

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Defensive Practice as ‘Fear-Based’ Practice: Social Work's Open Secret?

Whittaker

Havard

2015

Br J Soc Work

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Defensive practice has received attention through the Munro review of child protection, which has identified that current organisational cultures increase the likelihood of defensive practice. Whilst the wider socio-political climate that gives rise to defensive practice has been explored within the literature, little attention has been paid to the everyday realities of defensive practice. This paper reports the findings of a study into final year social work students' attitudes towards defensive practice within social work. Three focus groups were completed with a total of ninety final-year students that collected qualitative and quantitative data using interactive software. This paper examines how participants perceived defensive practice, both in general and when faced with real-life vignettes. Participants distinguished between pro-active behaviour (sins of commission) and passive behaviour (sins of omission), generally regarding the latter as less serious because it was less tangible and easier to attribute to more positive motives. Whilst the literature identifies defensive practice as deliberate behaviour, the focus group discussions suggest that it is a subtler and less conscious process. Whilst there was there was a general consensus about the nature of defensive practice, there was considerable disagreement about specific vignettes and several competing explanations are explored.

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Section: Introduction and Rationale For The Studymentioning

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Defensive Practice as ‘Fear-Based’ Practice: Social Work's Open Secret?

Whittaker

Havard

2015

Br J Soc Work

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“…This has led some scholars to argue that social work cannot claim a distinctive knowledge-base (Van Ewjik, 2010;Shaw, 2010;Brekke, 2012;Preston-Shoot, 2012 In chapter three it was noted that nurses are encouraged to embrace a 'person-inenvironment' and a human rights approach to elder abuse (Phelan, 2014), an observation that appears to add weight to Sommerfeld's claim. While Shaw (2010) also argues that the social work profession's inability to define its knowledge base is problematic because it means that there are no specific fields of practice or interventions that are exclusively social work.…”

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A cog in the wheel or an agent of change: Knowledge use and practice with older people who are abused in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Brook¹

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Across the past three decades a growing national and international concern about elder abuse is evident in policy, research and social and health care practice. There is currently a considerable body of literature on prevalence, predictors and risk factors as well as debates about definitions, conceptualisations and appropriate legal, policy and practice responses. There is more limited research on how the conceptualisations of ageing and elder abuse shape professional practice. Knowledge use and social work practice in elder abuse in the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand is the focus of this thesis.This thesis presents a qualitative exploratory study of elder abuse practice as reported by twenty social workers engaged in frontline elder abuse work throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. The purposive sample of social workers practised in a variety of settings and were situated in different geographic locations across the country. The primary focus of this study is to explore how elder abuse is understood, how cases of In individual semi-structured interviews, participants were asked to describe their understandings of elder abuse, to explore the knowledge they use to inform these understandings, and to give details about what actions they take when encountering situations of abuse.An interpretative, social constructionist approach to this research was taken. All twenty accounts of practice were analysed thematically. This provided a means by which the processes of, and influences on, meaning, knowledge use and response-making could be scrutinised, and an understanding of elder abuse practice in Aotearoa/New Zealand could be discerned.The findings indicate that the term 'elder abuse' is universally recognised and articulated in practice, but when explored in depth, understandings about what constitutes elder abuse varied, were dependent on the knowledge individual social ii | P a g e workers brought to their practice, and on the context in which the practice occurred. This knowledge was not always explicitly used and consequently was often left unscrutinised. The use of tacit knowledge was seen to facilitate the establishment of patterns of practice that have become customary and are left unchallenged.The influence of the context on what could or could not be done to respond to elder abuse was acknowledged by many of these social workers. Beyond the immediate resource constraints that were recognised as limiting their options to address abuse, the significance of the socio-economic-historic-cultural-political context and how this informed and shaped social work practice (and the experiences of older people) were not readily identified by most. When these factors were noted, they were largely considered to be insurmountable.The findings from this study highlight that a narrow approach is taken by most of the social workers in this study when working with older people who are abused. There is little demonstrated understanding the socio/political context in which the abuse occurs, and the systemic issues that may co...

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Single Assessment in Social Work

Parker

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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The Secret Curriculum

Cited by 13 publications

References 55 publications

Defensive Practice as ‘Fear-Based’ Practice: Social Work's Open Secret?

Defensive Practice as ‘Fear-Based’ Practice: Social Work's Open Secret?

A cog in the wheel or an agent of change: Knowledge use and practice with older people who are abused in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Single Assessment in Social Work

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