This manual provides field instructors with the tools to intervene on their natural avoidance of the discomfort that accompanies working on cultural and social diversity issues with students. By using these tools, field instructors can help students get outside their comfort zones to meaningfully address differences with clients, recognize and intervene on oppressive practices and behaviors, and promote social justice. The CSWE Education Policy and Accreditation Standards mandates that students demonstrate mastery of culturally competent practice concepts. The role of field instructor is pivotal to how students learn to address issues of diversity and oppression. The training in this manual helps fill that gap. The training was tested with various groups and feedback was incorporated into the training design. It is divided into three themes that reflect the real world in which field instructors work and teach: Relationship With Self, Relationship With Student Supervisee, and Relationship With Agency. The training consists of 6 modules that are delivered in a variety of flexible time formats to accommodate each school's needs and includes mini lectures, graduated exercises, and discussions. The modules are: 1. Welcoming Diversity in Self 2. Taking a Stand for Diversity 3. Exploring Diversity in the Supervisory Relationship 4. Effecting Change in the Supervisory Relationship 5. Diversity and Your Agency 6. Future Action This is an essential manual for every school with a field instruction program and for every field instructor.
Council on Social Work Education
We are a nonprofit national association representing individual members and graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in this country.
CSWE Press is a niche publisher that addresses the needs of social work educators. Some of our areas of publishing specialty are
-The philosophy, theory, and practice of teaching
-The process and evaluation of learning
-The organization and structure of social work education
-Diversity in all forms in social work practice and education
