The Field Placement Survival Guide: What You Need to Know to Get the Most from Your Social Work Practicum (Best of the New Social Worker, 2)

Field placement—regardless of the setting or time—involves universal issues for all social work students. Those issues are reflected in THE FIELD PLACEMENT SURVIVAL GUIDE. This collection of articles from THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine addresses the multitude of issues that social work students in field placement face, including choosing a placement, getting prepared, using supervision effectively, working with clients, copies with challenges, and moving on to a successful social work career.

This collection is a goldmine of practical information that will help social work students take advantage of all the field placement experience has to offer. Each chapter (many written by seasoned experts in field education; others by students) presents a different aspect of the practicum and offers students insight into the importance of both the challenges and the joys of this unique learning experience.

This book is the second in the BEST OF THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER® book series, which also includes Manfred Melcher's book, BECOMING A SOCIAL WORKER.