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Not the heart stuff: early-career child protection social workers and preparation for difficult work

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dc.contributor.authorHamilton, Faye
dc.contributor.authorGlanfield, Florence
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-16T16:25:14Z
dc.date.available2026-03-16T16:25:14Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractSocial work educators have been trying to understand how best to prepare social work students for the difficult aspects of social work practice for many years and there continues to be a need to improve social work education curriculum in relation to this issue. This article describes a study of Canadian early career child protection social workers, that is those who graduated from an accredited social work program less than two years ago, had less than two years of child protection practice experience, and were under the age of 30, and their perceptions of the challenges they have experienced in their practice along with their perceptions of how their social work education prepared them for these challenges. In this qualitative, Interpretive Description study, the intensity of the participants’ experiences are compared to the depth of their educational preparation. Recommendations regarding social work curriculum development are discussed. The findings emphasize the need to build in-depth curriculum that is more consistent with the experiences of early career social workers.
dc.identifier.citationHamilton, F., & Glanfield, F. (2025). Not the heart stuff: Early-career child protection social workers and preparation for difficult work. Journal of Social Work Education, 61(4), 579–594. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2025.2530747
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2025.2530747
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/4306
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectearly-career child protection social workers
dc.subjectCanada
dc.subjectInterpretive Description study
dc.subjectsocial work curriculum
dc.titleNot the heart stuff: early-career child protection social workers and preparation for difficult worken
dc.typeArticle Post-Print
local.embargo.enddate2026-08-12

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