Research about training and professional intervention by social worker in Seville: contributions from experience

• Published in: Cuadernos de trabajo social 2014-01, Vol.27 (2), p.291-305
• Main Authors: Barrera-Algarin, Evaristo, Malagon-Bernal, Jose Luis, Sarasola-Sanchez-Serrano, Jose Luis
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Subjects: Client Relations; Intervention; Knowledge; Labor Market; Management; Professional Training; Profits; Social Work Education; Social Workers
• ISSN: 0214-0314
• DOI: 10.5209/rev_CUTS.2014.v27.n2.43576

Often the development and design of curriculum for Social Work do not have sufficient analytical support and generate significant implications on professionals. The research analyzes the relationships between different levels of training of social workers and the usefulness of theoretical knowledge in their practice. With the use of quantitative and qualitative techniques was collected professional social worker vision of their training for professional practice, generating innovative training suggestions as: skills training, training for research, training and management, or forms and procedures for the free exercise of the profession of social work. This connection between the elements that social workers are able to synthesize and rework after contact with professional experience can be taken as suggestions for improving the academic. Furthermore they may even give a better adaptability of the new social workers to the conditions and needs of the labor market, thereby generating a profit for the professional community and to the discipline as a whole. Adapted from the source document.