Field Instruction: A Guide for Social Work Students, Updated Edition (6th Edition)

A field manual organized around 100+ of the most common questions students ask in their field placements.

This book is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series. This series helps students understand and master CSWE’s core competencies with a variety of pedagogy highlighted competency content and critical thinking questions for the competencies throughout.

For those beginning their first social work field experience,Field Instruction: A Guide for Social Work Students addresses the most common questions, concerns, and problems students encounter and provides them with essential information for completing the field experience successfully.

Field Instruction: A Guide for Social Work Students is structured so that "early" questions about preparing for the first interview are presented ahead of more complicated issues such as resolving ethical dilemmas. This edition provides instructors with already designed exercises that they can select and tailor to students’ specific learning needs. These exercises are designed to promote involvement with the content of the text and to develop critical thinking and self-reflection.

Teaching & Learning Experience

• Personalize Learning — MySocialWorkLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
• Improve Critical Thinking — Exercises within the text promote critical thinking and critical thinking questions tied to CSWE’s core competencies are included throughout (in margins).
• Engage Students — Case examples and questions prepare students for the field. Exercises help students work through questions they have. Videos and cases in MySocialWorkLab engage students and help them apply theory to practice.
• Explore Current Issues — Inclusion of contemporary topics, such as safety, child abuse, diversity, legal issues, and stress.
• Apply CSWE Core Competencies — Integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS throughout — highlights competencies and practice behaviors and includes expensive pedagogy. MySocialWorkLab adds value with core competency videos and hundreds of competency-based questions.
• Support Instructors — AnInstructor’s Manual and MySocialWorkLab with Pearson eText are included in the outstanding supplements package.

Note: MySocialWorkLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySocialWorkLab, please visit:www.mysocialworklab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MySocialWorkLab (at no additional cost). VP: 0205042481

David Royse, Ph.D., MSW, B.A., earned his B.A. in psychology at the University of Kentucky, his M.S.W. from the University of Louisville, and his Ph.D. in social work from Ohio State University. He joined the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky in 1985 and is currently a full professor and Director of the Ph.D. program. He began his teaching career at Alice Lloyd College (Pippa Passes, KY), worked as a research analyst at the Human Services Coordination Alliance, taught at the University of Dayton, and was employed as the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Greene-Clinton Mental Health Board. As a college student he worked as a college switchboard operator, a cottage parent at a juvenile detention facility, and as a librarian and pharmacy assistant in the Addiction Research Center (known variously as the “Narcotics Hospital” and “Narco”).

Dr. Royse is the author or co-author of these seven books:

Royse, D., Staton-Tindall, M., Badger, K. & Webster, J. M. (2009).Needs Assessment. Oxford University Press.

Royse, D., Thyer, B. & Padgett, D. Program Evaluation: An Introduction. Brooks/Cole (5^th edition 2009)

Royse, D. Research Methods in Social Work. Brooks/Cole (6th edition, 2010)

Royse, D., Dhooper, S. S. & Rompf, E. L. Field Instruction: A Guide For Students. Allyn & Bacon (6^th edition 2010)

Montcalm, D. & Royse, D. (2002). Data Analysis for Social Workers. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. (1^st edition)

Royse, D. (2001). Teaching Tips For Collge And University Instructors: A Practical Guide. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Royse, D. How Do I Know It's Abuse?. Springfield, IL: CC Thomas, 1994.

Additionally, he has authored or co-authored approximately 70 peer-reviewed articles in professional journals. Recent research interests have included projects involving cancer screening and burn survivors. He has also chaired 12 Ph.D. dissertations on a variety of topics.

Elizabeth Lewis Rompf earned her B.A. in sociology from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN., her M.S.W. from the University of Kentucky, and her doctorate in Higher Education at the University of Kentucky. She joined the College of Social Work as an instructor, eventually attaining Associate Professor.

Dr. Rompf served as Director of the Undergraduate Program and as Field Director. As Field Director she led efforts to create a Field Advisory Board, implement a Practicum Review Board, develop guidelines for student study abroad initiatives, establish evaluative criteria for Field Professors and Field Instructors, and write the “College of Social Work Handbook and Field Education Manual.”

Dr. Rompf has co-authored the book Field instruction: A guide for social work students, (5^th ed.), presented at national and regional conferences, and published in peer-reviewed journals on topics such as open adoption, family-friendly workplaces, spousal abuse and the criminal justice system, and teaching social work practice. She holds certification in Aging from the Ohio Valley Appalachia Regional/Geriatric Education Center, Open Adoption Counseling, and Child Birth Education. She completed the Council on Social Work Education’s Curriculum Development Institute Program on aging and participated as Resource Faculty for the UK Gerontology Center. She co-evaluated t