Katherine Occhiuto
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5938119 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Katherine Occhiuto |
| NOMBRES | Katherine |
| APELLIDO | Occhiuto |
| FIRMA | OCCHIUTO K |
| AFILIACIONES | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2069-3006 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A collaborative activity to establish classroom norms, and to discern and respond to students’ learning needs
This paper details an exercise used to collaboratively develop guidelines that support establishing classroom norms. It is one that has been used with practice-based classes that require students to participate in experiential learning activities, and to engage in complex discussions. This short paper consists of three parts: first it makes a brief case for classroom guidelines. Second, it details the exercise. And third, it discusses pedagogical…
Resonant Research in Uncertain Times
This paper reflects on how one interdisciplinary research team restructured a simulation-based study involving actor-portrayed counselling sessions with social work students and practitioners in response to the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the needs of participants and team members to repair fractured connections to themselves and others. We read our experiences alongside Harmut Rosa’s work on Resonance and the concept of Slow Schola…
The Complexities of Navigating Social Supports
This study explores how low-income lone mothers in Ottawa, Ontario, navigate Canada’s complex, multi-sector networks of social supports in their work to meet their families’ needs. Drawing on reflective thematic analysis of in-depth interviews and text message-based data with 25 mothers, the study illuminates how systems organized to meet basic needs are often experienced as stressful and deflating, stigmatizing, and even risky. Mothers described…
Doing Research Differently
Feminist research methods have been historically collaborative and team-based, using the expertise of multiple researchers to analyze complex social problems. However, while feminist research teams often aim to be non-hierarchal and push against pre-existing power structures, they still exist within the neoliberal university which mediates how this resistance shows up. In this paper, we reflect on how a relational ethics of care can act as a disr…
Feeling professional
Informed by affect theory, this article explores the inherent tensions embedded in the ideals of the “professional” in social work practice through an empirical study of how feelings are negotiated in two simulated social work encounters. Drawing on a simulation-based research project with 34 participants on navigating uncertainty in clinical social work practice and informed by reflexive thematic analysis, findings highlight two central contradi…
Guidelines for Using Simulations in Qualitative Research on Social Work Practice Competencies
The use of simulation (i.e., trained actors) has gained much attention in social work as a method of teaching, learning, and student assessment. Simulation has also been used in medicine as a research method in studying practice competencies. The use of simulation as a part of research design is relatively new in social work. Particularly, little is known about how simulations can be combined with well-established qualitative research methods. We…
Teaching Note—Adapting to Online Live Streamed OSCEs
This teaching note describes how a school of social work adapted Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) during the COVID-19 pandemic to an online live-streamed format, providing students the opportunity to engage in this experiential learning activity despite pandemic-related limitations. A step-by-step process for developing online OSCEs is described, highlighting three key areas—planning, training, and implementation—and the signific…
Simulation in social work education
This explorative study provides insight into the experiences of standardized clients (SC) involved in simulation for social work education and research. The purpose was to contribute to scholarly conversations regarding SCs and to provide an empirical foundation to inform our simulation program by attending to the perspectives of SC participants who are key to simulation-based learning (SBL). A qualitative, cross-sectional survey was employed to …
Reflecting on Reflection in Clinical Social Work
This study calls into question some of assumptions within social work education and practice regarding the transformational potential of reflection-on-practice. Participants (n = 34) in this simulation-based study each engaged in two clinically focused simulations, each followed by an interview which included observing segments of their video-recorded simulations. The objectives of this study are to make some sense of the misalignments between pa…
Pivoting to Online Live-Streamed Simulations
This article reports the use of online live-streamed simulations (online LSS), implemented on Zoom with Master of Social Work students. A thematic analysis was conducted from an online survey (n = 26 responses) to explore, 1) if online LSS can offer the same potential to develop holistic competence as in-class simulations, and 2) how students experienced learning social work practice through online LSS. Students reported learning procedural and m…
Translating Critical Social Work into Clinical Practice
Focused primarily on addressing racial and social injustices through theoretical and critical analysis, critical social work is a well-established paradigm in Canadian social work education. This pilot study explored how clinical social workers might translate critical social work principles into clinical practice. We used simulation-based research methods to observe social workers’ engagement with a Simulated Client (SC; i.e. trained actor). Soc…
Observational learning in simulation-based social work education
Simulation-based learning is gaining attention in social work education. While research suggests clear pedagogical benefits for those who engage simulated clients as interviewers, little is known about the learning processes among observers of simulation teaching. Using social learning and social cognitive theories as a theoretical framework, we examined observational learning in simulation by comparing the experiences of students who participate…
Towards Greater Transparency Regarding Partnerships for Technology Development
This article explores the problems and potential of funded short-term cross-sector partnerships to address technological deficits in the nonprofit sector by engaging with the partners of a concluded project. The partnership case study that forms the backbone of this article was a three-year nationally funded nonprofit-industry-academic partnership. The ob- jective of the partnership was to increase the data collection capacity of a national nonpr…
A Call to Action on Artificial Intelligence and Social Work Education
In discussing a university-industry partnership on the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based simulation platform, this conceptual paper explores the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) as a pedagogical innovation in social work. Critically reflecting upon this ongoing project, we discuss the current promises and limitations of NLP for social work education. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework theoretically informs “lesson…
Data Collection Strategies for Sharing Lived Experiences
The purpose of this study was to explore low-income lone mothers’ perceptions of their engagement with a text (SMS) and multimedia message (MMS) qualitative study. Study participants were asked to submit text and pictures via SMS and MMS that represented their reflections, observations, and experiences accessing community support services over a 6-week period. After engaging in the study, participants were asked to complete an evaluation question…
Innocent Expertise
This article shines light on the tension-filled subjectivity of community practice, reflecting on the experiences of two community workers and our stories of how our whiteness functions in community practice—particularly when white workers engage with racialized community members. Through these stories, we seek to demonstrate how the white worker is framed as what we call an “innocent expert subject”; this subject is one that is both constituted …
Reflecting on Reflection in Clinical Social Work
This study calls into question some of assumptions within social work education and practice regarding the transformational potential of reflection-on-practice. Participants (n = 34) in this simulation-based study each engaged in two clinically focused simulations, each followed by an interview which included observing segments of their video-recorded simulations. The objectives of this study are to make some sense of the misalignments between pa…
A Call to Action on Artificial Intelligence and Social Work Education
In discussing a university-industry partnership on the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based simulation platform, this conceptual paper explores the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) as a pedagogical innovation in social work. Critically reflecting upon this ongoing project, we discuss the current promises and limitations of NLP for social work education. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework theoretically informs “lesson…
Feeling professional
Informed by affect theory, this article explores the inherent tensions embedded in the ideals of the “professional” in social work practice through an empirical study of how feelings are negotiated in two simulated social work encounters. Drawing on a simulation-based research project with 34 participants on navigating uncertainty in clinical social work practice and informed by reflexive thematic analysis, findings highlight two central contradi…
Translating Critical Social Work into Clinical Practice
Focused primarily on addressing racial and social injustices through theoretical and critical analysis, critical social work is a well-established paradigm in Canadian social work education. This pilot study explored how clinical social workers might translate critical social work principles into clinical practice. We used simulation-based research methods to observe social workers’ engagement with a Simulated Client (SC; i.e. trained actor). Soc…
Innocent Expertise
This article shines light on the tension-filled subjectivity of community practice, reflecting on the experiences of two community workers and our stories of how our whiteness functions in community practice—particularly when white workers engage with racialized community members. Through these stories, we seek to demonstrate how the white worker is framed as what we call an “innocent expert subject”; this subject is one that is both constituted …
Innocent Expertise
This article shines light on the tension-filled subjectivity of community practice, reflecting on the experiences of two community workers and our stories of how our whiteness functions in community practice—particularly when white workers engage with racialized community members. Through these stories, we seek to demonstrate how the white worker is framed as what we call an “innocent expert subject”; this subject is one that is both constituted …
A Call to Action on Artificial Intelligence and Social Work Education
In discussing a university-industry partnership on the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based simulation platform, this conceptual paper explores the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) as a pedagogical innovation in social work. Critically reflecting upon this ongoing project, we discuss the current promises and limitations of NLP for social work education. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework theoretically informs “lesson…
Data Collection Strategies for Sharing Lived Experiences
The purpose of this study was to explore low-income lone mothers’ perceptions of their engagement with a text (SMS) and multimedia message (MMS) qualitative study. Study participants were asked to submit text and pictures via SMS and MMS that represented their reflections, observations, and experiences accessing community support services over a 6-week period. After engaging in the study, participants were asked to complete an evaluation question…
Towards Greater Transparency Regarding Partnerships for Technology Development
This article explores the problems and potential of funded short-term cross-sector partnerships to address technological deficits in the nonprofit sector by engaging with the partners of a concluded project. The partnership case study that forms the backbone of this article was a three-year nationally funded nonprofit-industry-academic partnership. The ob- jective of the partnership was to increase the data collection capacity of a national nonpr…
Observational learning in simulation-based social work education
Simulation-based learning is gaining attention in social work education. While research suggests clear pedagogical benefits for those who engage simulated clients as interviewers, little is known about the learning processes among observers of simulation teaching. Using social learning and social cognitive theories as a theoretical framework, we examined observational learning in simulation by comparing the experiences of students who participate…
Pivoting to Online Live-Streamed Simulations
This article reports the use of online live-streamed simulations (online LSS), implemented on Zoom with Master of Social Work students. A thematic analysis was conducted from an online survey (n = 26 responses) to explore, 1) if online LSS can offer the same potential to develop holistic competence as in-class simulations, and 2) how students experienced learning social work practice through online LSS. Students reported learning procedural and m…
Translating Critical Social Work into Clinical Practice
Focused primarily on addressing racial and social injustices through theoretical and critical analysis, critical social work is a well-established paradigm in Canadian social work education. This pilot study explored how clinical social workers might translate critical social work principles into clinical practice. We used simulation-based research methods to observe social workers’ engagement with a Simulated Client (SC; i.e. trained actor). Soc…
Guidelines for Using Simulations in Qualitative Research on Social Work Practice Competencies
The use of simulation (i.e., trained actors) has gained much attention in social work as a method of teaching, learning, and student assessment. Simulation has also been used in medicine as a research method in studying practice competencies. The use of simulation as a part of research design is relatively new in social work. Particularly, little is known about how simulations can be combined with well-established qualitative research methods. We…
Teaching Note—Adapting to Online Live Streamed OSCEs
This teaching note describes how a school of social work adapted Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) during the COVID-19 pandemic to an online live-streamed format, providing students the opportunity to engage in this experiential learning activity despite pandemic-related limitations. A step-by-step process for developing online OSCEs is described, highlighting three key areas—planning, training, and implementation—and the signific…
Simulation in social work education
This explorative study provides insight into the experiences of standardized clients (SC) involved in simulation for social work education and research. The purpose was to contribute to scholarly conversations regarding SCs and to provide an empirical foundation to inform our simulation program by attending to the perspectives of SC participants who are key to simulation-based learning (SBL). A qualitative, cross-sectional survey was employed to …
Reflecting on Reflection in Clinical Social Work
This study calls into question some of assumptions within social work education and practice regarding the transformational potential of reflection-on-practice. Participants (n = 34) in this simulation-based study each engaged in two clinically focused simulations, each followed by an interview which included observing segments of their video-recorded simulations. The objectives of this study are to make some sense of the misalignments between pa…
The Complexities of Navigating Social Supports
This study explores how low-income lone mothers in Ottawa, Ontario, navigate Canada’s complex, multi-sector networks of social supports in their work to meet their families’ needs. Drawing on reflective thematic analysis of in-depth interviews and text message-based data with 25 mothers, the study illuminates how systems organized to meet basic needs are often experienced as stressful and deflating, stigmatizing, and even risky. Mothers described…
Doing Research Differently
Feminist research methods have been historically collaborative and team-based, using the expertise of multiple researchers to analyze complex social problems. However, while feminist research teams often aim to be non-hierarchal and push against pre-existing power structures, they still exist within the neoliberal university which mediates how this resistance shows up. In this paper, we reflect on how a relational ethics of care can act as a disr…
Feeling professional
Informed by affect theory, this article explores the inherent tensions embedded in the ideals of the “professional” in social work practice through an empirical study of how feelings are negotiated in two simulated social work encounters. Drawing on a simulation-based research project with 34 participants on navigating uncertainty in clinical social work practice and informed by reflexive thematic analysis, findings highlight two central contradi…
A collaborative activity to establish classroom norms, and to discern and respond to students’ learning needs
This paper details an exercise used to collaboratively develop guidelines that support establishing classroom norms. It is one that has been used with practice-based classes that require students to participate in experiential learning activities, and to engage in complex discussions. This short paper consists of three parts: first it makes a brief case for classroom guidelines. Second, it details the exercise. And third, it discusses pedagogical…
Resonant Research in Uncertain Times
This paper reflects on how one interdisciplinary research team restructured a simulation-based study involving actor-portrayed counselling sessions with social work students and practitioners in response to the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the needs of participants and team members to repair fractured connections to themselves and others. We read our experiences alongside Harmut Rosa’s work on Resonance and the concept of Slow Schola…
Social Work Education and Practice (13 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Social Work (10 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (6 obras) · Pedagogy (6 obras) · Qualitative research (6 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras)