Paper: How social workers reflect in action and when and why they don’t [Mapped to h2cm]

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

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SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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The self - personhood Reflection (as core concept) has value and limitations Non-reflection to protect the self Unbearable anxiety psychoanalysis - findings defended nature of the self thinking & non-thinking 'suspended self-preservation' Self - Two perspectives - Service User emotional intelligence internal supervision intuition - improvisation Reflexive Helicoptering - metacognition Sexuality (form of bracketing-off of oneself)* lived experience of the senses RATIONALE

Theories of reflection Frameworks for reflection (reflective practice) physical / somatic effects of anxiety ethnographic study audio recordings Reflective practice demands that you learn from experience. It requires you to be self-critical. It expects you to analyse what you think, feel, and do... #When is it better NOT to reflect? 'Containment' 'splitting' risks (being completely non-reflective) experiences and the (mobile) body TECHNICAL

*limits capacity of some aspects of relational work  Social Work Practice Home visits Family home children and parents 'tacit knowing-in-action' Reflection in Practise Fieldwork - home, car SW composed when service users in distress, absorb their sadness, shame, fears, and at times their joy # Face-to-Face interviews Relationships: sexuality, gender offloading informally - office

Social Work / Clinical Case Supervision  offloading formally Two Local Authorities Management Supervision and Governance Child protection Power Organisational risk management Policies, Procedures Lone working... Influence in 'advocacy' [comment on twitter - see below] (as a Professional or 'Independent'?)

Harry Ferguson (2018): How social workers reflect in action and when and why they don’t: the possibilities and limits to reflective practice in social work, Social Work Education, DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2017.1413083

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