Funded Projects

Improving social work responses to parental substance abuse: Models of good practice for social work education

Project details
Project contributors Sarah Galvani and Donald Forrester
Organisation University of Bedfordshire
Contact details Sarah.Galvani@beds.ac.uk
Disciplinary focus Social Work
Start date September 2008

Description

This project is designed to support qualifying social work programmes to deliver material on substance use in the context of specialist teaching/learning on children and families. It will be based on the views of newly qualified social workers, interviews with social work educators, as well as material collated from good practice within existing social work programmes and specialist substance use professionals. It will result in a guidance document that contains examples of teaching material and other resources as well as a commentary on how to successfully integrate more substance use teaching into the children and families curricula.

The project builds on the findings of a Home office funded study published in October 2008. An article about this report appeared in Community Care, February 2009.

Outcomes

Learning and teaching guide: social work and substance use, teaching the basics (PDF, 350KB)

SWAP digest 7: Integrating substance use teaching into the social work curriculum (PDF, 298KB)

Case studies: teaching substance use in social work (PDF, 255KB)

Information sheet: key web resources for teaching social policy, drugs and society (PDF, 403KB)

Information sheet: key resources for teaching substance use (PDF, 186KB)

Information sheet: domestic violence and substance use in the curriculum (PDF, 193KB)

Helpsheet: using substance use research tools to promote learning and teaching (PDF, 191KB)

Helpsheet: involving alcohol and other drugs specialists in social work education (PDF, 207KB)

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