An evaluation of the involvement of service users and carers in social work education focusing on the UK.
Author: Jackie King-Owen
The history of service user and carer involvement in social work goes back to the 1970s when there was a distinct shift from institutional to community care based on an emerging social model of disability and a more emancipatory or participatory approach within social work, which represented a paradigmatic shift from being passive recipients of services to being actively engaged in shaping their own lives. It built on a strengths based approach, focusing on task and person-centred practice.
Active involvement of service users and carers can enhance student learning; increasingly service user involvement is an expectation rather than simply desirable.
This paper evaluates the involvement of service users and carers in social work education focusing on the UK.
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The publisher is the Centre for Welfare Reform.
Service User Involvement in Social Work Education © Jackie King-Owen 2020.
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