TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching Policy Practice
T2 - A Hands-On Seminar for Social Workers in Israel
AU - Weiss-Gal, Idit
AU - Savaya, Riki
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - The current question in social work discourse is no longer whether all social workers should be trained in policy practice, but how to train them. This article describes a three-semester long seminar in policy practice for social workers studying for their MSW at a university in Israel. The seminar sought to train the participants to integrate direct and policy practice in their daily professional activities. The article presents the findings of a controlled, pre-post, mixed-methods evaluation of the seminar. The findings show that the seminar increased the participants' sense of self-efficacy and their actual involvement in policy practice and that it brought a number of other benefits to them, their workplace, and the relation between the two.
AB - The current question in social work discourse is no longer whether all social workers should be trained in policy practice, but how to train them. This article describes a three-semester long seminar in policy practice for social workers studying for their MSW at a university in Israel. The seminar sought to train the participants to integrate direct and policy practice in their daily professional activities. The article presents the findings of a controlled, pre-post, mixed-methods evaluation of the seminar. The findings show that the seminar increased the participants' sense of self-efficacy and their actual involvement in policy practice and that it brought a number of other benefits to them, their workplace, and the relation between the two.
KW - MSW program
KW - evaluation
KW - policy practice
KW - self-efficacy
KW - social work education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84862304845&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15588742.2012.655550
DO - 10.1080/15588742.2012.655550
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AN - SCOPUS:84862304845
SN - 1558-8742
VL - 11
SP - 139
EP - 157
JO - Journal of Policy Practice
JF - Journal of Policy Practice
IS - 3
ER -