Not the Heart Stuff: Early-Career Child Protection Social Workers and Preparation for Difficult Work.

Social work educators have been trying to understand how best to prepare social work students for the difficult aspects of social work practice for many years and there continues to be a need to improve the social work education curriculum in relation to this issue. This article describes a study of...

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Publicado en:Journal of Social Work Education Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 579 - 595
Autores principales: Hamilton, Faye, Glanfield, Florence
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Fall2025
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