Learn how to get the most from your placements with the aid of this user-friendly text. Making the Most of Field Placement offers a practice-based approach to teaching and learning during placement experiences.

Written for both students and their supervisors, it follows the various stages of a placement from planning through to evaluation. The core practice issues and ideas that it discusses can be used for a wide range of fields including social work, welfare work, disability work, youth work, community work and other human services.

Readers can follow through the chapters as a guide as the placement progresses or select specific chapters and exercises to enhance specific stages of the placement. Numerous examples, checklists and exercises provide practical ideas that help students and supervisors to positively engage with each stage of the field placement process.

Book Features:

• The order of chapters follows the field placement experience from pre-placement right through to finishing and evaluation so that the book can be used as a guide while the placement progresses.

• It addresses the range of critical learning issues that may emerge at each stage and suggests various strategies to deal with these in order to improve the placement experience.
• Sample boxes contain a range of practical information, examples and scenarios to assist readers to positively engage with each stage of the field placement process.
• Numerous exercises encourage students and their supervisors to apply the content and reflect on their own experiences.