The Effective Student Supervision in Social Work Practicum for the Education and Training of the Certified Social Workers in Japan

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K13440
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Toyo University
• Principal Investigator: FUJIBAYASHI KEIKO 東洋大学, 社会学部, 教授 (60316289)
• Research Collaborator: KITAJIMA eiji ; KOIZUMI takafumi ; SASAOO masami
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: ソーシャルワーク / 実習スーパービジョン / 社会福祉士 / 認定社会福祉士

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The poupous of this study was to find the current situation of the student supervision in the social work practicum for the education and training of the Certified Social Workers in Japan. Based on the findings of the present situation of the student supervision, it added with this poupous to develop the effective student supervision program for keeping the well-qualified professional manpower in the area of social welfare in Japan.The results showed that the meaning of “supervision” used among the field instructors in the social work practicum was vague and diverse. Among the schools of social work at the universities in north America, on the other hand, the Educational Policy and Core Curriculums on the education and training for social work students has been clearly established by the Council on Social Work Education(C.S.W.E) to assure the higher quality of profession for the field work education and trainings.

Free Research Field

社会福祉、ソーシャルワーク

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

社会福祉士は、少子高齢社会がますます進展する我が国にとっては重要な専門職である。しかし医療関係の専門職に比べ、その専門性が曖昧なことが問題であり、教育内容等の充実から専門職としての地位を確立する必要がある。ソーシャルワークスーパービジョンは、専門性の質の向上のために必須であるという認識が、我が国の社会福祉現場では浸透しつつある。社会福祉士国家試験受験資格取得のための実習スーパービジョンから認定社会福祉士のスーパービジョンまでの継続したスーパービジョンの理論や方法等を検討することは、専門職のサービスを受ける国民にとっても重要である。