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Feb 4, 2018 · There is something called reflection and it has value, but it also has limits, which need to be understood if we are to achieve a deeper appreciation of the complex nature of social work practice, the demands the work makes on practitioners and the implications for service users.
- Harry Ferguson
- 2018
- The Role of Self-Awareness and Reflection in Social Care Practice
- The role of self-awareness and reflection in social care practice
- Participants
- Procedure
- Ethics
- Findings and Discussion
- Participants’ understanding of self-awareness and reflection
- Engaging in reflective practice
- Factors that support/impede reflection
- Conclusion
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Aoife Greene This study examined social care workers’ understanding of self-awareness and reflection, the impact of reflection on their practice, and the factors which support and/or impede reflection in their practice. Given the limited evidence base in general on the use of reflection in social care practice, this qualitative study contributes to...
The sample group was purposively chosen with the eligibility criteria of participants having a degree in social care and at least three years work experience in social care. These criteria were used to ensure that participants had the opportunity to learn about self- awareness and reflection and to practise it in the workplace. The participants wer...
To recruit the participants from the course a short presentation on the study was given to the class group as well as email being sent to the class with an information sheet and consent letter attached. Once the volunteers made contact, arrangements were made as to the time and place that suited the participants in order to conduct the interviews....
The research proposal was approved by the ethics committee of the third level institute in which Master’s degree was being undertaken. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. Some of the sample group were classmates of the researcher and as such prospective participants may have found it difficult to say ‘no’ to a fellow classmate who ...
The data were analysed in relation to the topics relevant to the objective of the study in exploring social care workers understanding and use of self-awareness and reflection in their practice with a number of themes identified. This article reports on three main themes: participants understanding of self-awareness and reflection, how the particip...
Participants had a general understanding of self-awareness and reflection as well as its relevance to their practice as social care workers. Almost half of the participants could name models of reflection such as Schön’s reflecting-on-action and reflecting-in action, Kolb’s learning cycle and Gibbs’s reflective cycle. However they could not provide...
Critical incident reports were found to be one of the most common tools used in order to reflect. These critical incident reports were provided by the participants’ organisations. The participants reported that at the end of the critical incident report there was a section which encouraged practitioners to reflect on an incident by describing it, n...
While discussing factors that support and/or impede reflection, the participants’ responses fluctuated between hypothetical assumptions and actual experiences. When they spoke about the factors that supported their reflection, the participants spoke about hypothetical supports for the practitioner in general. It appeared that the participants had n...
The findings of this study suggest that while social care practitioners generally understand the concepts of self-awareness and reflection, they tend not to reflect constructively unless they are reporting on a critical incident. Furthermore, while all participants identified reflection and self-awareness as important factors in promoting client-ce...
- Aoife Greene
- 2014
Jun 23, 2021 · Regardless of the emotion’s social workers experience, it is valuable to investigate them and to reflect on why and how these reactions impact their work. This awareness can prevent concealed prejudices against clients and reduce discriminatory practices.
- Mari D Herland
- 2021
Why is reflective practice important to social work? It is generally agreed that reflective practice is important in social work because: • It is a key aspect of professionalism • t I improves accountability • t I is intrinsically linked with learning and so can enhance professional development
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Jan 1, 2015 · Reflective Social Work Practice demonstrates how social workers can creatively and consciously combine 'thinking, doing and being' when working with individuals, families,...
- Manohar Pawar
Apr 9, 2021 · Reflexive attention can address personal beliefs, interpersonal dynamics, and collective perspectives and assumptions (Chiu, 2006). Thus, critical reflection provides social workers with valuable materials for the reconstruction of oppressive social constructs at different value levels.
May 3, 2024 · This article explores some of the limits of reflection, particularly reflection-on-practice, and critical reflection, as methods for social workers to interrogate the tensions they encounter in professional practice, with a particular focus on clinical social work.
