Social Work Field Directors: Foundations for Excellence, Revised Edition

What are the best practices for managing a successful field education program?

Professors Hunter, Moen, and Raskin present scholarship from experts to shape field policies and curricula in the revised edition of Social Work Field Directors: Foundations for Excellence. The work of each contributing author sets standards for program quality and student competence, and makes clear the need to incorporate community practice experience with social work program education. This book is a resource that provides in-depth knowledge to help new and experienced field directors develop, execute, maintain, and evaluate field education programs. It illustrates how the signature pedagogy of social work education promotes sustainable changes to improve the quality of existing field programs.

REVISED TO MEET 2015 EPAS STANDARDS

Features of this edition: includes case studies on sexual harassment, professional development, placing students, distance learning, gatekeeping, and more; applicable to BSW and MSW, rural and urban schools, and online programs; offers accompanying website with supplemental content including evaluations, forms, policies, sample syllabi, and PowerPoint orientations that are adaptable to individual programs www(dot)socialworkfielddirectors(dot)com

Cindy A. Hunter (MSW, Howard University) is associate professor and director of field placement in the Department of Social Work at James Madison University. She is cochair of the BPD Field Committee and leads the Mid-Atlantic Field Consortium s Virginia satellite branch. Professor Hunter s publications and presentations on field education focus on the field seminar and generalist practice.

Julia K. Moen (MSW, University of Minnesota) is associate professor of social work at Bethel University. For twenty-three years she served as field director. She teaches courses in social work practice, social policy, and field seminar and maintains a clinical practice in the University Counseling Center. She is cochair of the BPD Field Committee and trains new field directors at the annual conference.

Miriam Raskin (EdD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; MSW, University of Maryland) is professor emerita of social work at George Mason University and previously served as field director and department chair. She is a founding member of the BPD Field Committee and the Mid-Atlantic Field Consortium. Raskin has chaired accreditation site teams for CSWE and was selected as CSWE s first Senior Scholar. In 2012, she received the Habit of Excellence Award from George Mason University s College of Health and Human Services.