Optimizing Geriatric Social Work Education: Program and Individual Characteristics That Promote Competencies |
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| Authors: | Emily A. Greenfield Cory Morton Julie Birkenmaier Noell L. Rowan |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Social Work , Rutgers University , New Brunswick , New Jersey , USA egreenf@ssw.rutgers.edu;3. School of Social Work , Rutgers University , New Brunswick , New Jersey , USA;4. School of Social Work , Saint Louis University , Saint Louis , Missouri , USA;5. Kent School of Social Work , University of Louisville , Louisville , USA |
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Since 1998, the Hartford Partnership Program in Aging Education (HPPAE) has been implemented in over 70 graduate social work programs. This study examined whether program and individual student characteristics are associated with students' knowledge, skills, and values in aging. We conducted a secondary analysis of national program evaluation data. Results from hierarchical linear models indicated greater gains in knowledge of aging among full-time students, as well as students in programs that had defined field rotation models and/or that made greater use of geriatric social work competencies. Implications for efforts to enhance graduate social work education in aging are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | older adults aging program evaluation social work education field education |
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