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Time: 4 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- This audio unit focuses on the importance of people's backgrounds and experiences in the field of social work. It identifies the diverse ways in which service users and social workers define themselves,...
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- 1 Your life story Resource
- People go into social work for a variety of reasons: to do good, to help others, to change the world, to confront their own problems or even by accident. In many cases their backgrounds and experiences...
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| | 2 Listening to life experiences
- 2 Listening to life experiences Resource
- In this audio clip you will hear practitioners and service users talk about their life experiences. First you will hear from two service users – a foster carer and a resident in an elderly person's home....
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| | 3 How do you define yourself?
- 3 How do you define yourself? Resource
- There are many important aspects to life that can shape an identity, including class, religion, gender, sexuality and ethnicity. In this audio clip, Stephen Rashid talks to a group of recently qualified...
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| | 4 Reflecting on one's own identity
- 4 Reflecting on one's own identity Resource
- This audio clip explores the way in which language, ethnicity and religion can affect an individual's sense of identity.
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| | 5 Good and bad social work
- 5 Good and bad social work Resource
- In this clip you will hear examples of good and bad social work, as identified by a number of service users and practitioners.
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- 6 Values Resource
- In this audio clip you will hear practitioners and service users talk about the values that they consider important in social work.
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- 7 Reflection Resource
- In this audio clip, practitioners reflect on the experiences they have lived through, and the way they work. The speakers vary from experienced to newly qualified staff. All of them work in both the child...
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- 8 Conclusion Resource
- In this final clip, the practitioners and service users you have heard throughout the unit will put together their own thoughts, in order to give you advice on how to be a better social worker.
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