Lengthy unpaid placements in social work: exploring the impacts on student wellbeing.
In Australia, there are 130,000 students studying social work across 30 universities. The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) mandates the completion of at least 1,000 hours of field education for qualification, across at least two placements in different fields of practice. This means a...
| Publicado en: | Social Work Education Vol. 40; no. 6; pp. 787 - 803 |
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