Seeing flowers through the mist

How social workers in disability services retrospectively view their educational experiences related to case management in Hong Kong

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12914513
AutoresKangwei Xun (0000-0002-9615-4500, University of Hong Kong, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume12
Fascículo1
Páginas39-55
Data de publicação2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoChina Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1752-5098 • E-ISSN: 1752-5101
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17525098.2019.1558741
OpenAlexW2913233729
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas30

This article is principally designed to examine social workers’ retrospective views on their past educational experiences with case management in disability services to supply a deficiency that very little literature attention has been paid to how prior professional education shape their case management practice. Using qualitative methods, 13 social workers selected by purposive sampling were invited to participate in in-depth interviews. The qualitative data were analysed to generate some themes. Three themes found are “from ‘rarely heard of it’ to ‘remember it being referred to’”; “buy a lottery ticket before starting a field placement”; and “Ambiguity”. These themes indicate that social work education related to case management was lagging behind, which may exacerbate social work’s polarisation and lead to social workers’ confusion about their professionality. As a result, an urgent need for greater knowledge of case management in university education and in-service training should be addressed in Hong Kong

Managerialism · Medical education · Nonprobability sampling · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration · Medicine · Social Work Education and Practice · Social Work