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Educating family group conference coordinators: A ‘family of origin’ perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Michael Clare
Michael Clare*
Affiliation:
School of Social work and Social Policy University of Western Australia Nedlands, WA 6097 Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper considers the challenges to social work students and their educators and to graduate social workers and their supervisors, of acquiring beginning-level confidence and competence in working with ‘other people’s families’. There is a review of important educational contributions to our understanding of the necessary and sufficient preparation for ‘pure and applied’ social work theory and practice with families. In this review, the writer describes the educational rationale for a ‘Family of Origin’ workshop which has been offered to social work students at the Universities of Sussex and Western Australia and to experienced practitioners in a Perth child and family welfare agency. Finally, the writer reflects on the intellectual and the emotional dimensions of knowing and doing in family-based practice – with particular reference to Family Group Conferencing.

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Research Article
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Children Australia , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , 2000 , pp. 21 - 27
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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