At home: Field education during lockdown

Authors

  • Yesse Cox University of Otago, Social and Community Work, New Zealand
  • David McKenzie The Salvation Army, New Zealand
  • Bronwyn Powell-Grub The Salvation Army, New Zealand
  • Liz McCafferty University of Otago, Social and Community Work, New Zealand

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol33iss2id873

Keywords:

Field education, Covid-19, Social work education, Student experience

Abstract

Field education during the 2020 Aotearoa New Zealand Covid-19 lockdown was a new experience for social work educators and students alike. This case study captures the experience of one social work student during this time while on placement at the Salvation Army. Included in the account are the perspectives of the Community Ministries Manager, the placement supervisor and the placement field coordinator. Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, the student undertook the placement while at home. A pandemic can offer students opportunities to learn about managing difficult situations. Reflection on the experience provided insight into what helped and what could have been done differently. Regular debriefing, supervision and a post- crisis debrief were all important elements that aided the learning and supported the wellbeing of the student.

References

Findley, P. A., Pottick, K. J., & Giordano, S. (2017). Educating graduate social work students in disaster response: A real-time case study. Clinical Social Work Journal, 45(2), 159–167.

Papouli, E., Chatzifotiou, S., & Tsairidis, C. (2020). The use of digital technology at home during the COVID-19 outbreak: Views of social work students in Greece. Social Work Education, 39(8), 1107–1115. doi:10.1080/0 2615479.2020.1807496

Prost, S., Lemieux, C., &. Ai, A. (2016). Social work students in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Correlates of post-disaster substance use as a negative coping mechanism. Social Work Education, 35(7), 825–844. doi:10.1080/02615479.2016.1187720

Young, J. E., Williamson, M. I., & Egan, T. G. (2016). Students’ reflections on the relationships between safe learning environments, learning challenge and positive experiences of learning in a simulated GP clinic. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 21(1), 63–77.

Downloads

Published

2021-09-02

How to Cite

Cox, Y., McKenzie, D., Powell-Grub, B., & McCafferty, L. (2021). At home: Field education during lockdown. Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 33(2), 114–117. https://doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol33iss2id873

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 2 (2021)

Section

Viewpoints

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

By completing the online submission process, you confirm you accept this agreement. The following is the entire agreement between you and the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) and it may be modified only in writing.

You and any co-authors

If you are completing this agreement on behalf of co-authors, you confirm that you are acting on their behalf with their knowledge.

First publication

By submitting the work you are:

  1. granting the ANZASW the right of first publication of this work;
  2. confirming that the work is original; and
  3. confirming that the work has not been published in any other form.

Once published, you are free to use the final, accepted version in any way, as outlined below under Copyright.

Copyright

You assign copyright in the final, accepted version of your article to the ANZASW. You and any co-authors of the article retain the right to be identified as authors of the work.

The ANZASW will publish the final, accepted manuscript under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows anyone – including you – to share, copy, distribute, transmit, adapt and make commercial use of the work without needing additional permission, provided appropriate attribution is made to the original author or source.

A human-readable summary of the licence is available from http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, which includes a link to the full licence text.

Under this licence you can use the final, published version of the article freely – such as depositing a copy in your institutional research repository, uploading a copy to your profile on an academic networking site or including it in a different publication, such as a collection of articles on a topic or in conference proceedings – provided that original publication in Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work is acknowledged.

This agreement has no effect on any pre-publication versions or elements, which remain entirely yours, and to which we claim no right.

Reviewers hold copyright in their own comments and should not be further copied in any way without their permission.

The copyright of others

If your article includes the copyright material of others (e.g. graphs, diagrams etc.), you confirm that your use either:

  1. falls within the limits of fair dealing for the purposes of criticism and review or fair use; OR
  2. that you have gained permission from the rights holder for publication in an open access journal.