The experience of being a student in clinical training?
Being a student in a clinical training force me to look at my self and issues that I am grappling with like that of the population that I serve. My placement was at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital inpatient psychiatric unit. For me I the transition from student in class one day and then a professional in flied education the next is often scary. Because I am preoccupied most of the time with not wanting to make any mistakes, which is enviable anyway ( I have made a few thus far). I find myself in the beginning of my flied education constantly looking for ways to use a new skilled I read about or best practices intervention. I now understand is not about me as much as it is about the patients …show more content…
Especially since my placement is an acute setting with the primary goal is for stabilization. Unlike an outpatient setting where the social worker may have on going contact with the patient for longer period of time. My contact is limited not just by the setting but also the number of days that I am there for. My duties centered around determining patients' eligibility for services, observing their conditions, and conducting patient psychosocial ans assessment histories and meeting the need identified on Axis III.
The importance of critical thinking to clinical social work?
The ability to apply critical thinking is a crucial practice skill that all social workers must engaged in to affect change with whom they are working. Critical thinking is the examination of information and its reliability and authenticity. Gibbs and Gambrill (1999) talked about the purpose of /for critical thinking and describes a set of standards that one must engaged in to become a critical thinker. This involves being unbiased, opened mindedness, critiquing and evaluating evidence fairly, use clarity to accurately present all view points and the ability or “willingness” change
Being a student in a clinical training force me to look at my self and issues that I am grappling with like that of the population that I serve. My placement was at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital inpatient psychiatric unit. For me I the transition from student in class one day and then a professional in flied education the next is often scary. Because I am preoccupied most of the time with not wanting to make any mistakes, which is enviable anyway ( I have made a few thus far). I find myself in the beginning of my flied education constantly looking for ways to use a new skilled I read about or best practices intervention. I now understand is not about me as much as it is about the patients …show more content…
Especially since my placement is an acute setting with the primary goal is for stabilization. Unlike an outpatient setting where the social worker may have on going contact with the patient for longer period of time. My contact is limited not just by the setting but also the number of days that I am there for. My duties centered around determining patients' eligibility for services, observing their conditions, and conducting patient psychosocial ans assessment histories and meeting the need identified on Axis III.
The importance of critical thinking to clinical social work?
The ability to apply critical thinking is a crucial practice skill that all social workers must engaged in to affect change with whom they are working. Critical thinking is the examination of information and its reliability and authenticity. Gibbs and Gambrill (1999) talked about the purpose of /for critical thinking and describes a set of standards that one must engaged in to become a critical thinker. This involves being unbiased, opened mindedness, critiquing and evaluating evidence fairly, use clarity to accurately present all view points and the ability or “willingness” change