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Critical Reflections on Clinical Supervision: A Social Justice Issue for Social Workers
Full text linkClinical supervision, a central experience for social workers, is a requirement for clinical licensure in all 50 states, making it an essential component of social work practice. Clinical licensure indicates a higher level of expertise and provides more job opportunities and a higher professional status for social workers. When social workers encounter challenges to obtaining clinical licensure, professional inequities are perpetuated. This is a social justice issue for the social work profession. This paper explores clinical supervision in the context of clinical licensure. A discussion of the social work regulation system, functions of supervision, and factors influencing clinical supervision is presented. Recommendations for addressing social justice in clinical supervision are identified, including more emphasis on social work research, inclusion of leadership and supervision curricula in schools of social work, strategies to reduce costs of supervision, and implementation of supervisor training
Rethinking Reliance Upon Written Assignments: Students Reimagining Rigor in Social Work Education
Full text linkWritten assignments in social work education are often relied upon as tools to demonstrate knowledge gained in coursework, although evidence of their effectiveness is inconsistent. While more institutional effort and resources are being poured into detecting plagiarism on written assignments, especially in the era of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT, educators could consider whether there are alternative assignments that could be more meaningful in preparing social work students for practice. In this conceptual paper, a collective of social work students and an educator from a Human Behavior in the Social Environment BSW course share their experiences with switching from written to alternative assignments during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic—a change made from necessity and curiosity. Reflections about the meaning of alternative assignments are discussed from a student and educator standpoint. Topics addressed include: 1) promoting creativity as self-care in potentially triggering educational environments, 2) redefining rigor, 3) promoting social justice, and 4) increasing relevance with implications for the field of social work education.
“All On An Equal Plain”: Preparing Citizen Professionals
Full text linkThis essay argues that higher education can regain public trust, forge vital, reciprocal relationships with communities, and help to awaken democracy as a way of life if colleges and universities become “filled with the democratic spirit.” Renewing democratic spirit on a large scale requires recovery of the public and civic dimensions of professionals’ work in higher education, which is central to shaping the culture of colleges and universities. The essay describes the transformation of professional identities from “civic” to “disciplinary,” fed by the logic of instrumental rationality, the resulting crisis across the sweep of modern professions, and the development of the theory of public work and citizen professionalism at the University of Minnesota and later at Augsburg University as a response. Finding enthusiasm about the idea at the 2024 CUMU conference and drawing on case studies from many different settings and disciplines, the co-authors wrote this piece to speak to the potential for citizen professionalism to spread as a theory of public action and set of democratic practices with large positive effects
Data on the Move: The Intersection of Automated License Plate Readers and Privacy in Indiana
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Editor’s Introduction: Exploring Civic Innovations with Higher Education in Prison Programs and Reentry Approaches
No full textCorporate Liability Lawsuits Against Officers, Directors, and Controlling Shareholders: An Empirical Overview of the Brazilian Experience
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to explore the characteristics and use of corporate liability lawsuits against officers, directors and controlling shareholders (arts. 159 and 246 of the Brazilian Law of Corporations), between 1987 and 2023, within the scope of the state Courts of São Paulo (“TJ/SP”), Rio de Janeiro (“TJ/RJ”) and Minas Gerais (“TJ/MG”), with the following objectives: (i) to identify the number of suits related to the application of arts. 159 and 246 of the Brazilian Law of Corporations; (ii) to ascertain which players are responsible for filing them, contrasting the participation of corporations (direct lawsuits) with that of shareholders (derivative lawsuits); (iii) to identify the distribution of lawsuits over the years, trying, if possible, to observe any pattern of growth in the filing of lawsuits; and (iv) to explore the outcomes and results of the lawsuits before the Courts of the TJ/SP, TJ/RJ and TJ/MG, in order to understand how corporate liability suits have been addressed and dealt with. To this end, judgments were collected from an independent, comprehensive survey conducted by the author in the search platforms of each of the Courts, which were then separated and grouped into a database responsible for guiding the analysis
Deep and Continuous Palliative Sedation Without Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: An International Review
No full textDeep and continuous palliative sedation combined with withholding or withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration (“PSs̄ANH”) is a medical process regularly used in end-of-life care to alleviate suffering. But in contrast to other end-of-life options like VSED and MAID which have been the subject of significant commentary and policy attention, PSs̄ANH remains largely unexamined. This Article fills this gap by clarifying the legal status and medical practice of PSs̄ANH in twelve jurisdictions around the world
