Events

Facilitator: Kevin J Brazant MA, FRSA, FHEA, CeP

This seminar explores the challenge of promoting positive father involvement where there is historic DV and abuse and introduces a controversial form of abuse called ‘Parental Alienation’ (PA) which is an extreme form of parental gate keeping. This session intends to also consider issues of historic more domestic violence and maltreating fathers as part of family relationships. This provides a space for exploration of practice issues when working with families caught in cycles of domestic violence and abuse.

Facilitator: Mark Wheeler MA, MSW, PGCE, FHEA; Acting Head of Social Work at the University of East London.

Work in social service settings is gratifying yet can impact our person in unhealthy ways. Current social climates often exacerbate existing tensions causing emotive professional situations to illicit feelings of isolation, detachment, and/or distrust. This dynamic more can manifest not only in the service user/service relationship but also between colleagues. This session will apply the concept: personality disorder to profession contexts and explore the ways in which the concept can help of hinder progress towards shared goals.

This webinar will explore triangulation of assessment in the virtual world. This will involve considering questions like - How do you undertake a direct observation of virtual practice? What should this look (and feel) like? How does contemporary practice link with the assessment requirements in social work practice? What are some of the barriers and enablers in terms assessment for practice educators? more The specific issue about how to have a ‘courageous conversation’ and provide feedback to students in virtual spaces will be explored.

This will consider the impact of current ways of working on student learning. What should a contemporary practice-learning curriculum look like? Drawing on traditional learning theories we will explore how practice educators can support student social workers to learn and develop their practice when placement learning environments look so different. Issues around situated learning and arranging more learning opportunities to help students demonstrate the PCF domains will be addressed. The session will include feedback from students about learning in the contemporary climate. The perennial learning issues of theory and practice and reflective practice will be considered in terms of changed ways of working.

Building more on the first webinar, this session will consider what a good reflexive supervision looks like in contemporary practice. How do you provide emotionally supportive supervision in a virtual space? Once again, the session will draw on feedback from students. Some short clips of reflective supervision will be shared with some interactive elements. Practical hints and tips will provided to enable practice educators to add to their current supervision toolkit.