Many interns and student workers across various disciplines find themselves struggling to be heard in their field placements. The worker expressed a great deal of frustration at the lack of inter-agency communication, written or otherwise, and a failure to disclose key pieces of information. Knowledge and skills for child and family practitioners, London: HMSO. Thompson, N., 2010. Dalrymple, J. Many of the service users that we worked with had a dual diagnosis (problems with mental health and addiction). It would also be remiss to discount the influence of gender and class on the assumptions I may have held. [Online] Available at: www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/doc/194419/0052192.pdf. 1st ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. This does not apply to images, third party material (seek permission from the original owner) or any logos or insignia belonging to JCU or other bodies, which remain All Rights Reserved. I will then explore my experience of reflection, and how reflective practice supported me to apply theory to practice. It allows me to access different points of view, positive feedback, and constructive challenge.. White, S. (2001) Auto-ethnography as reflexive enquiry: The research act as self-surveillance, in I. Shaw and N. Gould (eds), Qualitative Research in Social Work, London: Sage. The application of critical reflection challenges accepted modes of thought, social organisation, dominant discourses and assumptions (Graham, 2017; Savaya & Gardner, 2012; Thompson, 2010). When I worked with him, he lived in a housing project that was specifically meant to house ex-offenders. When we realised we couldnt hand in the assignment like it was, I got quite frustrated. )Is L@LL X.V? U? New York: McGraw-Hill Education. I have a career, not in social work, but I have an opportunity, at 47, to get free schooling. WebSocial workers critically reflect on their practice, use analysis, apply professional judgement and reasoned discernment. However, appropriate use of this type of reflection should inform future practice, and encourage appropriate reflection-in-action when presented with a similar situation again.

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