Field Instruction: A Guide for Social Work Students, Updated Sixth Edition

Decades of combined practice and teaching experience imbue Royse, Dhooper, and Rompf with the requisite skills, background, and sensitivity to provide field practicum students with essential information for completing their field experience successfully. This accessible guide begins by addressing questions about partnering with social service agencies and preparing for the first interview and then delves into the complex nature of social work, such as dealing with stress, managed care, noncompliant clients, and legal and ethical issues.

With the aim of helping students troubleshoot potential problems, the authors integrate classroom knowledge and real-world settings by providing case examples, critical thinking questions, and exercises throughout the text. These outstanding features augment students' understanding of different aspects of social work, foster their skills development, and challenge them to think about how they would react to real-life experiences in the field. End-of chapter practice tests gauge mastery of chapter content.

Titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Bibb, Rose's Story, Revised Edition (ISBN 9781577666622); Crosson-Tower, From the Eye of the Storm: The Experiences of a Child Welfare Worker (ISBN 9781478629399); and Kagle-Kopels, Social Work Records, Third Edition (ISBN 9781577665465).

Field Instruction is a comprehensive, student-friendly guide for those beginning their first social work field experience.

 

The text addresses the most common questions, concerns, and problems students encounter in their field practicums and provides them with essential information for completing the field experience successfully. It is structured so that “early” questions about preparing for the first interview are presented ahead of more complicated issues such as resolving ethical dilemmas.

 

New to This Edition

•  Thirty-eight new end-of-chapter Exercises encourage students to think critically about issues raised in the chapter.

•  This edition covers areas of increasing concern to social workers, such as stress (Chapter 4) and safety (Chapter 5).

•  Chapter 8 offers expanded coverage of legal issues.

•  New case examples with questions help students relate material to the real-world issues they face in field practicums.

 

What Reviewers Are Saying

“A quick and accessible reference guide, a survival tool for students entering the field.”

–Marian Dumaine, Florida International University

 

“The writing style is great–very approachable–and the chapters are neither too long nor too short.”

–Susan Bowers, Northern Illinois University

 

“All you ever wanted to know about your internship but were too afraid to ask.”

–Sally Alonzo Bell, Azusa Pacific University