Towards an interactional approach to reflective practice in social work

Reflective Practice in Contemporary Social Work Classrooms

Social work literature provides analysis and strategies about teaching social work practice and its interrelationship with a diverse society. In this paper, we present a framework to aid instructors' understanding of and response to coriflict in the classroom, which is unavoidable. We propose the reflective practitioner paradigm along with the contributions of mindfulness, as useful for social ...

An Ecological Approach for Social Work Practice

Reflective Practice in Nursing Care

Introduction: Reflective practice is a generic term for intellectual and affective activities that create new understanding and appreciation of experiences. Various studies have emphasized on the benefits of reflection in nursing. This article reviewed benefits and barriers of reflective practice in nursing. Methods: In this review article, library references, some scientific databases (Elsevi...

Linking personality to helping behaviors at work: an interactional perspective.

Previous efforts to elucidate dispositional antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviors have yielded equivocal results. The current study presents and tests a theoretical argument for expecting conscientiousness to interact with interpersonal dimensions of personality in predicting helping behaviors. As hypothesized, the responses of 374 women and their supervisors reveal significant in...

Beyond Empathy: an Ethnographic Approach to Cross-cultural Social Work Practice

Intense challenges confront the profession of social work at the beginning of the new century. Time-honored practice theories and concepts are being vigorously challenged by a growing critique of the Eurocentric, hegemonic assumptions embedded in traditionally established practice. The vast social and cultural diversity that forms the current context of practice has challenged the " myth of sam...