Laura Nissen

Datos Biográficos

ID4176394
NOMBRELaura Nissen
NOMBRESLaura
APELLIDONissen
FIRMANISSEN L
AFILIACIONESPortland State University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS11
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2014
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H2

  • Pedagogies of possibility: Case studies from using foresight tools in the social work classroom

    Danielle Maude Littman, Finn Bell et al.ARTICLESocial Work Education2025Referencias: 15

    Social workers engage across sectors to advocate for social justice, empower individuals and communities and work toward more equitable futures. Foresight practice, or the systematic scan of past and future possibilities to analyze complex problems and situations, offers social work mechanisms for sensemaking and impact that is presently missing from the field. In this article we offer four examples of using foresight strategies and tools in the …

  • The End of the World as We Know It? ChatGPT and Social Work

    Open AccessLauri Goldkind, Lea Wolf et al.ARTICLESocial Work2023Citada por: 6

    Extract: Released on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT is a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that responds to prompts posed as questions, producing intelligible, mostly accurate text responses. ChatGPT is built on natural language processing, a branch of AI initiated in the 1960s that seeks to program a computer’s capacity to understand text and spoken words (Wei et al., 2018). The introduction of ChatGPT was explosive, generating both aw…

  • Constructing the Future of Social Work Tech Habits of Mind With the Ethical OS

    Open AccessTonya Bibbs, Tonya D Bibbs et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2023

    Technological innovation has long been seen as a hallmark of progress in the modern world. While these advances may facilitate advantages to individual and social well-being, they have the potential for creating new areas of risk and expanding on those that already exist. In addition, a global pandemic has reshaped how we interact with one another, as more people connect online. Social work's ongoing relationship with technology necessitates that…

  • Pandemics, Economic Systems, and the Future of Social Work

    Open AccessLaura Burney Nissen, Laura Nissen et al.ARTICLESocial Work2021Citada por: 3

  • Lifelong Learning in Social Work: A Qualitative Exploration with Practitioners, Students, and Field Instructors

    Open AccessPauline Jivanjee, Kimberly Pendell et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Social Work2016Citada por: 2

    In the context of rapid change in social work practice related to policy, research findings, and theoretical developments, faculty are challenged to prepare students to engage in lifelong learning, a concept that has not been well-articulated in social work education. This article reports on an exploratory study of students,' social workers,' and field instructors' perspectives and experiences of lifelong learning. Based on focus group discussion…

  • Lifelong Learning in Social Work Education: A Review of the Literature and Implications for the Future

    Laura Burney Nissen, Laura Nissen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Teaching in Social Work2014

    Social workers practice in rapidly changing and complex environments where they encounter challenges that include increasing evidence-based practice requirements, a shifting information landscape, and diminishing workplace resources. To address these challenges, social workers need to engage in lifelong learning. The purpose of this article is to explore conceptual elements and assumptions underlying lifelong learning; propose social work specifi…