Making the Most of Field Placement, 3rd Edition

Learn how to get the most from your placements with the aid of this user-friendly text. Making the Most of Field Placement offers a practice-based approach to teaching and learning during placement experiences. Written for both students and their supervisors, it follows the various stages of a placement from planning through to evaluation. The core practice issues and ideas that it discusses can be used for a wide range of fields including social work, welfare work, disability work, youth work, community work and other human services. Readers can follow through the chapters as a guide as the placement progresses or select specific chapters and exercises to enhance specific stages of the placement. Numerous examples, checklists and exercises provide practical ideas that help students and supervisors to positively engage with each stage of the field placement process.

Helen Cleak is Senior Lecturer and former Director of Field Education at the School of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University. She has worked as a social worker in income security, foster care, hospital and trauma work and family mediation. Dr Cleak has been actively involved in the teaching and training of students and supervisors for 18 years and collaborates closely with the other Victorian schools of social work to provide a coordinated approach to securing field placements. Her teaching and research interests include counselling and mediation skills, crisis intervention, suicidal behaviour, health care, ageing and professional practice. Jill Wilson is Professor in the School of Social Work and Human Services at the University of Queensland. She has been involved in field education for over thirty years as a supervisor, researcher and co-ordinator of the field education program and as a lecturer in courses designed to train supervisors of staff and students.

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