Making the Most of Field Placement, 3rd Edition

This book continues to ‘fill’ a gap within the human services that offers a practice-based approach to the teaching and learning curriculum for student placements from the perspective of the student as well as the supervisor. It has a chronological format which tracks the field placement experience from pre-placement to completion and evaluation of the placement. It offers a range of examples, checklists and exercises throughout each chapter to provide both the student and the supervisor with practiced ways in which they can positively engage with each stage of the field placement process. Field placements, or field teaciting and learning is conceptualised broadly, making it applicable to a range of practitioners including social workers, welfare workers, disability workers, youth workers, community workers and other human sendee students and their field teachers in programs that require a placement experience.

This third edition of the book reflects some of the feedback and ideas from the range of readers as well as incorporating current empirical information about best practice from the national and international field.