Continuing Professional Development in Social Work

Continuing Professional Development in Social Work
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Preface
1. Continuing professional development: the international context
	What is continuing professional development?
	What is the nature and purpose of continuing professional development?
	Supporting social workers
	Professionalisation and continuing professional development
	Continuing professional development models
	Critical perspectives
	Conclusion
2. Contemporary debates in social work education
	Socio-political context of social work education
	Competence and social work education
	Managerialism and learning in the workplace
	The Munro report
	Reflective learning
	Reconciling competency and reflective learning
	Post-qualifying education, the university and public expenditure cuts
	Who should provide post-qualifying social work education?
	Developing the research and knowledge base
	Conclusion
3. Continuing professional development: a national study
	Social work in Ireland
	Social work education in Ireland
	The research project: methodology
	Post-qualifying higher education
	Course choice
	Other forms of continuing professional development
	Motivation for undertaking continuing professional development
	Outcomes of continuing professional development
	Informal and in-house continuing professional development
	Impact of continuing professional development on practice
	Future continuing professional development
	Conclusion
4. Barriers to participation
	Barriers to participation: previous research
	Barriers to participation in other professions
	Barriers to participation in social work continuing professional development in Ireland
	Survey findings
	Interviews and focus group
	Continuing professional development in the context of regulation
	Overcoming barriers to participation
	Conclusion
5. Supervision
	Context of supervision
	Social work supervision: challenges and opportunities
	Public inquiries: revitalising interest in social work supervision
	What represents good-quality supervision?
	Experiences of supervision
	Linking supervision to continuing professional development
	Cultures and contexts of supervision
	Frequency and quality of supervision
	Forms of supervision
	Supervision training
	Content of supervision
	Conclusion
6. Learning and reflection
	Complexity and professional judgement
	Contextualising social work
	Public inquiries into social work: the challenges posed for the profession
	Connecting reflective inquiry to social work education and continuing professional development
	Reflection and social work
	Reflective praxis: implications for organisations
	Supporting reflective engagement: the portfolio
	Conclusion
7. Thinking and acting
	Critical theory
	The ‘Big Society’, social work and postmodernity
	Marketisation and managerialism: ‘a new culture of social work’?
	Managerialism and de-professionalisation: the McDonaldisation of social work?
	Trust, contractualism and social work
	Social work in a ‘runaway world’
	Active citizenship and the mobilised ‘self’: the co-production of ‘social work’
	Citizenship and social work: 10 principles for civic social work
	Conclusion
8. Conclusion: challenges and futurescapes
	Power and social work’s dual mandate
	Social work and civil society in changing times
	Civil society, communitarianism and social work
	Social work, community development and political ideology
	The role and task of social work in a multicultural society
	Conclusion
References
Index