Claim OwnershipHow Does the Social Work?
Subscribed: 13Played: 82
Subscribe
© Yohai Hakak
Description
Putting the 'social' back at the centre of social work.
Seasons are hosted in collaboration between social work academics, practitioners, students and experts by experience, and each has a different focus.
Seasons 1 & 2 explored a mix of topics
Season 3 offers an international perspective on anti-racist social work
Season 4 focuses on student social work placements
Cover art by Alma Hakak
Seasons are hosted in collaboration between social work academics, practitioners, students and experts by experience, and each has a different focus.
Seasons 1 & 2 explored a mix of topics
Season 3 offers an international perspective on anti-racist social work
Season 4 focuses on student social work placements
Cover art by Alma Hakak
29 Episodes
Reverse
In this episode, Colleen and Tienga are joined by Jenni Guthrie, the person behind the Autistic Social Worker website, to discuss how we apply theories, models, approaches and laws taught in class on placement. What does competence in this domain look like? Can we identify role models to emulate? Join us to discuss these issues and more.
Jenni Guthrie -
Autistic/ADHD social worker, writer, researcher and speaker currently working as a Principle Curriculum Lead on a social work Master's programme. Jenni is
also the host of www.autisticsocialworker.co.uk
In this episode, we explore the topic of communications on
placement. Effective communication is the heart of social work practice but it is far from simple. How do we do it? How may you experience it on placement? Where might the potential difficulties and what can we do to overcome them?
Join our hosts, Colleen Simon and Tienga Ngale, and their guests, Nana Yabbey-Hagan (Practice Educator & C&F SW Manager), and Rohima Begum (Apprentice programme Student SW), who will grapple with these questions.
In this episode, we look at race and explore the experience of race and racism in social work placement.
Thinking about Cultural Competence and the experience of working with those you share the same culture with: could familiarity help in relationship building or could it be an obstacle?
Our guests are:
Shantel Thomas is an experienced SW practitioner, Clinical Professional & Course Lead @ Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation, and founder of the Anti-Racist Movement (A.R.M.)
Thedini Liyanage is a 2nd year MSc social work student from Brunel University.
Chito Okeke is a 1st year MSc social work student at Brunel University.
An interesting read from an article in the Community Care Newsletter suggests that ‘one in 10 social workers encountered racism from workmates at least five times, while almost 20% reported having increased anxiety as a result of their experiences, finds a poll of almost 2,000 practitioners.’ https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2022/03/18/one-third-of-social-workers-faced-racism-from-colleagues-or-managers-in-past-year-finds-survey/
In this episode, we focus on the student social worker and what they may need to make the most of their social work placement. Thinking about factors such as first impressions, values, behaviours, professional boundaries, commitment, dress code, managing expectations in terms of equipment and learning, preparedness, understanding of PCFs, Social Work England Standards and much more.
Our hosts Tienga Ngale and Colleen Simon will be joined by two wonderful social workers:
Maria Fashakin who is a Liaison and Diversion Practitioner/Mental Health Social Worker/AMHP/DV Ambassador and Harpal Sokhi who is a Newly Qualified Social Worker.
In this episode, we focus on the role of Practice Educators in a placement. It will include a conversation about what practice educators do, their key roles and contributions to the experience of students on placement and power relations that are ever-present. Our hosts, Tienga Ngale and Colleen Simon will be joined by our guests for this episode:
Jodie Howard is a current ASYE SW in a local authority. Jodie had both of her placements in non-statutory settings and had the experience of only a PE on placement and both Practice Supervisor and PE.
Molly Meakin is an Advanced Practitioner and experienced practice educator, currently working with the Safeguarding Adults Team in the London Borough of Hillingdon Social Services
Section
2.6 of the Social Work England Practice Placement Guidance has more on the
roles and responsibilities of practice educators and can be find here: https://www.socialworkengland.org.uk/standards/practice-placements-guidance/
In this season, Tienga Ngale, our MSc social work student, Colleen Simon, Head of Social Work at the North West London NHS Foundation Trust, and their guests will de explore different aspects of social work students' placements.
In their first episode they speak with
Dan Vale and Dr. Maryam Zonouzi from Ginger Giraffe together with Brunel University students, Ana Muqry and Mehwish Jahan interview Claire Brown and Dr. Michaela Rogers, the authors of Removing gender barriers: Promoting inclusion for trans and non-binary carers in fostering and adoption
1In this episode, Dan Vale from Ginger Giraffe, and Brunel MSc social work students, Temi Awesu and Ayeshia Jehangir, dive into the complexities involved in creating a true co-production. They highlight some of the features of successful co-production as well as the obstacles we might face in our attempts to reach it. The link to their book chapter is here.
Hele Casey is a social work educator working for the Open University.
In this episode, Dan Vale from Ginger Giraffe and Brunel social work students, Ruth Apula Mokakwa and Shumaila Asghar interview Dr. Davis Kiima, an experienced social work practitioner and the author of a recently published book (by Routledge) titled Assessing Culturally Informed Parenting in Social Work.
What is the role culture plays in how parents raise their children, what happens when social workers come from a very different culture to that of the families they work with, and what should social workers know about these issues? These and many other related questions are discussed in this episode.
In this episode of How Does the Social Work?, Dan Vale and Maryam Zonouzi from Ginger Giraffe and Brunel's social work students, Thedini Liyanage and Jade Blake discuss with Dr. Reenee Singh a recent article she published together with her colleagues titled Clinical Work with Intercultural Couples. This is Dr. Singh’s area of specialisation and she has published extensively on the topic.
To learn more about the work of Dr. Singh, please visit her webpages, here: http://www.reeneesingh.com/
On this episode Rashidat Alubankudi, Joe Burnes and Dr. Yohai Hakak interview Dr. Prospera Tedam, an Assistant Professor in social work at the United Arab Emirates University in the United Arab Emirates where she has been since August 2018. Prior to that, between 2016-2018, she was a Principal Lecturer in Social Work at Anglia Ruskin University and between 2006-2016 she was Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Northampton. Prospera’s practice background is in Children and Families (specifically in Child Protection, Children Looked After, Fostering and Adoption.) Prospera was the Children Safeguarding Advisor to the Home Office between 2011 and 2018 and her research interests are around culturally sensitive practice, anti-racist social work and anti-oppressive practice learning and her preferred theoretical lens is Critical Race Theory. Prospera’s doctoral research examined the placement experiences of Black African Social Work students in England. Prospera is the author of a very recently published book titled Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice published by Learning Matters.
Much of our discussion revolves around Prospera's new book and focuses in particular extensive work on anti-oppressive social work and a series of studies she conducted in this area.
On this episode Ruth Bakialoge, Natasha Adatia and Yohai Hakak interview Warren Stewart who is a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at the School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton. Warren worked in a range of clinical and managerial roles in health and justice settings before going on to lead service development, workforce and educational projects for various offender health services. He has maintained his clinical experience in secure settings and continues to lead elements of health and social care education. Warren is interested in social research with vulnerable and hidden populations using qualitative methods. Warren is the author of a recently published paper titled Intrapersonal and Inter-subjective Challenges of Researching Older and Vulnerable Males Convicted of Sexual Offences that we would like to discuss with him. We discuss with Warren some of the psychological and ethical challenges of conducting research with older male prisoners convicted of sexual offences.
In this episode we discuss with Prof. John Wodarski what Evidence Based Social Work approach is for him, how he teaches it to his students, how his views shape his role as an editor , and what he sees as its future.
Prof. John Wodarski's webpage at the university of Tennessee
The Journal of Evidence Based Social Work Practice
Kathy Allen AKA Freya Barrington is a social worker, an award winning novelist and the author of Known to Social Services depicting the challenging realities of child protection social workers in England.
Yohai Hakak, Temitope Oyeniya and Sadat Mahama speak with Dr. Jane Fenton about her recent article You Can't Say That!: Critical Thinking, Identity Politics and the Role of the Social Work Academy which appeared in Socities 9(4): 71.
Yohai Hakak, Naasrat Khan and Gizem Ilhan interview Wayne about his professional journey and his anti-racist work as part of his role at the British Association of Social Workers
In this episode, we focus on all things relating to the
practicalities of being on a placement. Touching on home visits, the timing of visits, safety, and risk assessments, as well as writing comprehensive case notes, timekeeping, management of tasks and working with multi-agencies.
Our hosts, Colleen Simon and Tienga Ngale are joined by Sophia Onuh and Michelle Boreland.
Sophia Onuh is an experienced SW & Lecturer in Social
Work @ Yeovil College University Centre, and
Michelle Boreland is an experienced SW, MASH DTM &
Practice Educator.
Aleski Brandy-Williams’ book on “Preparing for First
Social Work Placement” as an introductory guide for aspiring social workers
in the children and young people service was featured. The book can be found
here: https://brandy-williams.co.uk/shop/ols/products/preparing-for-first-social-work-placement
In this episode our students, Rathigga Pushparajah and Tienga Ngale interview Dr Sharlotte Tusasiirwe about her recent article titled Is it indigenisation or decolonisation of social work in Africa? A focus on Uganda. The article was recently published in the African Journal of Social Work and it can be found here:
https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajsw/article/view/224731
Dr Sharlotte Tusasiirwe, born in Uganda, is an activist, social worker and educator. She gained her Master's
degree in Social work and Human Rights and a PhD from Western Sydney University, Australia. Her PhD focused on decolonising social work education and practice. Sharlotte has researched how African knowledge and Obuntu/Ubuntu philosophies can inform social work, a topic discussed in the article.
Rathigga and Tienga were particularly drawn to the article as it highlighted concepts critical to anti–racist social work practice, such as decolonization and colonisation. The author explains how colonisation affected social work practice in Uganda.
In this episode, our students Jade Blake, Rathigga Pushparajah and Georgina Georgina Ataa-Nyarko are joined by Solomon Amadasun from the School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Australia. The four discuss Solomon's work.
Solomon is a widely published author and has extensively researched social work practice in Nigeria. He aims to shed light on the fact that though willing, upcoming social workers are ill-equipped to apply the anti-oppressive approach in Nigeria due to the social and political climate in the country. In his writing, he discusses where the difficulty comes from and provides suggestions/implications to the social educators in Nigeria to adopt the outlook of strengthening the depth of anti-oppressive discourse both in the classroom and on placement
Article:
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JHASS-12-2019-0082/full/html
Further Work:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-0432
In this episode, our Brunel MSc students, Jade Blake, Rathigga Pushparajah and Tienga Ngale, speak with Dr Zibonele France Zimba, who teaches social work at the University of Johannesburg.
Dr Zibonele Zimba has a PhD in social work and has published several articles on anti-racism in South African social work. He will be able to offer unique insight into the social and political contexts of anti-racist social work practice in South Africa.
Article:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brunelu/detail.action?docID=6234870#
Brief bio and overview of publications:
https://www.uj.ac.za/members/zibonele-f-zimba/
Comments
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States