Florence
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Mapping Professional Practice for Social Care BA (Hons) Social CareUnit Code: 2G4Z0001_1112_9Z2F
Assignment 2 Portfolio of learning
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Mapping Professional Practice for Social Care BA (Hons) Social CareUnit Code: 2G4Z0001_1112_9Z2F
Assignment 2 Portfolio of learning
Florence Moussa Amisi
Florence Moussa Amisi
contents contents Introduction
The importance of reflective practice in social work.
Reflective practice is the ability to constantly monitor one 's own performance in a given role and make adjustments where necessary. For a social worker, reflective practice is particularly important because no two cases will ever be the same and it is vitally important to remain reactive and reflective at all times.
Reflective practice has been demonstrated to have significant benefits when it comes to the delivery of client-centred care, and can help a social worker to ensure that he is able to accurately assess the needs of each client as an individual rather than as a case number to be merely assigned to a particular program of action. With reflective practice widely regarded as one of the most important elements of modern social work, it is essential that all social work students become familiar with reflective practice methods.
One of the reasons why reflective practice is so important for social workers is that no amount of training can completely prepare a social worker for the requirements of their profession over the course of their entire career. For example, the context of a client 's problem in one decade will almost certainly be very different in another, which means that the client will need to have access to a social worker whose particular experience can take into account this new context.
Meanwhile the social worker might be stuck in a set of processes and routines from a decade ago (or further back), which means that the
Mapping Professional Practice for Social Care BA (Hons) Social CareUnit Code: 2G4Z0001_1112_9Z2F
Assignment 2 Portfolio of learning
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Mapping Professional Practice for Social Care BA (Hons) Social CareUnit Code: 2G4Z0001_1112_9Z2F
Assignment 2 Portfolio of learning
Florence Moussa Amisi
Florence Moussa Amisi
contents contents Introduction
The importance of reflective practice in social work.
Reflective practice is the ability to constantly monitor one 's own performance in a given role and make adjustments where necessary. For a social worker, reflective practice is particularly important because no two cases will ever be the same and it is vitally important to remain reactive and reflective at all times.
Reflective practice has been demonstrated to have significant benefits when it comes to the delivery of client-centred care, and can help a social worker to ensure that he is able to accurately assess the needs of each client as an individual rather than as a case number to be merely assigned to a particular program of action. With reflective practice widely regarded as one of the most important elements of modern social work, it is essential that all social work students become familiar with reflective practice methods.
One of the reasons why reflective practice is so important for social workers is that no amount of training can completely prepare a social worker for the requirements of their profession over the course of their entire career. For example, the context of a client 's problem in one decade will almost certainly be very different in another, which means that the client will need to have access to a social worker whose particular experience can take into account this new context.
Meanwhile the social worker might be stuck in a set of processes and routines from a decade ago (or further back), which means that the
References: Brown, Keith and Rutter, Lynne. Critical thinking for social work. Exeter, Learning Matters, 2008. Knott, Christine and Scragg, Terry. Reflective practice in social work. Exeter, Learning Matters, 2010