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'What you need to do is ...': social work students' reflections on an advice giving audit exercise.
- Source :
- Journal of Social Work Practice; Mar2019, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p67-80, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This paper reports on qualitative research investigating the advice giving behaviours of social work students. Second-year students, who were enrolled in an interpersonal communication skills course, were required to undertake an 'advice-giving audit' exercise across 6 days, with the aim of strengthening their awareness of the interactive nature of advice giving. Students then wrote a diary entry about the frequency of their everyday advice giving behaviour, its intent and reception. Nineteen students provided these reflections for analysis. Findings included three themes pertaining to advice-giving: (i) Giving advice as a natural, comfortable and unconscious way of communicating; (ii) Power and position influences advice dissemination, and (iii) Withholding advice opens, deepens and confuses norms of communication. A fourth theme pertained to the insights that students reported from engaging with the exercise. These findings illustrate the complex interactional process associated with professional advice giving. The research also suggests that experiential activities, which are conducted outside of the classroom, have significant potential to promote the critical examination of embedded communicative practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SOCIAL workers
COMMUNICATION education
COUNSELING
EDUCATIONAL tests & measurements
EMPATHY
EXPERIENCE
HEALTH occupations students
INTERPERSONAL relations
PATIENT-professional relations
PROBLEM-based learning
SELF-evaluation
SOCIAL skills
SOCIAL skills education
STUDENTS
STUDENT attitudes
QUALITATIVE research
JUDGMENT sampling
SOCIAL support
TASK performance
THEMATIC analysis
PSYCHOLOGY of Undergraduates
RETROSPECTIVE studies
DIARY (Literary form)
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02650533
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Social Work Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 134919093
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2017.1419464