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    Working with alcohol and drug use: exploring the knowledge and attitudes of social work students

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    Authors
    Galvani, Sarah
    Hughes, Nathan
    Affiliation
    University of Bedfordshire
    Issue Date
    2008-10-20
    Subjects
    alcohol
    drugs
    social work
    attitudes
    knowledge
    
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    Abstract
    Many social workers in the UK work daily with the social harms linked to problematic substance use. Historically, however, their drug and alcohol training needs have been overlooked. This study set out to achieve two key objectives: (i) to assess social work students' knowledge of, and attitudes towards, working with people with substance problems; and (ii) to develop and test a questionnaire to meet this objective. A four-part self-completion questionnaire was developed and administered to a purposive sample of 156 social work students. The focus of this article will be on the results of Part 2 of the pilot survey, which focused on the students' attitudes towards, and knowledge of, substance use. One hundred and twenty-one completed questionnaires were used as the basis for analysis. Three factors emerged as the key explanatory factors demonstrating significant relationships between them: ‘knowledge’, ‘support from colleagues’ and ‘legitimacy of role’. Social work training needs to recognize the need for alcohol and drug education within social work qualifying programmes in order that future social workers will feel equipped with the knowledge and legitimacy to do their job and meet the needs of people who have problems with alcohol and drugs.
    Citation
    Galvani, S., Hughes, N. (2008) 'Working with Alcohol and Drug Use: Exploring the Knowledge and Attitudes of Social Work Students'. British Journal of Social Work 40 (3):946
    Publisher
    Oxford University Press
    Journal
    British Journal of Social Work
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594571
    DOI
    10.1093/bjsw/bcn137
    Additional Links
    http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/bjsw/bcn137
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0045-3102
    1468-263X
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1093/bjsw/bcn137
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