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Forensic Social Work in Australian Undergraduate Social Work Education A Generic Practice Versus Specialisation Consideration1.49 MB
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Journal article
Forensic Social Work in Australian Undergraduate Social Work Education: A Generic Practice Versus Specialisation Consideration
Australian Social Work, Vol.77(3), pp.410-421
2024
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Abstract
Australian social workers are routinely employed in forensic roles, including forensic medicine, domestic and family violence, youth justice, probation or parole, and correctional work. Forensic social work often is considered to be a specialist area of social work due to the required additional knowledge of the law, crime, victimology, comorbidity, and intersectionality. Globally, and in Australia, concerns have been raised about the training and education of forensic social workers. In Australia, there is no clear forensic social work education pathway; there are no tertiary forensic social work courses, and the AASW does not recognise forensics in their credentialing program. Thus, practitioners are seen to qualify through their generic studies. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the extent to which forensic knowledge features in the current AASW accredited undergraduate social work programs. A content analysis of available 2023 Bachelor of Social Work programs was undertaken to reveal any disparity of forensic offerings under a generic qualification. This research is positioned within the wider “generic practice versus specialisation” debate in Australian social work education. It raises concerns about the fragmented nature of forensic studies within Australian social work education.
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- Title
- Forensic Social Work in Australian Undergraduate Social Work Education: A Generic Practice Versus Specialisation Consideration
- Authors
- Dimitra Lattas (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyCindy Davis (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- Australian Social Work, Vol.77(3), pp.410-421
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1080/0312407X.2023.2233500
- ISSN
- 1447-0748; 0312-407X
- Copyright note
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- Cancer Research Cluster; School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99745898402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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