An Ecological Approach to Social Work Student Success

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Student success
ecological theory
risk factors
protective factors

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Issue: No. 19 (2019): TS Cuadernos de Trabajo Social, Julio 2019
Section: Artículos de investigación empírica

Abstract

The United States faces a shortage of helping professionals in the near future, resulting in threats to the most vulnerable members of our society. Improving the retention and academic success of students enrolled in training programs for helping professionals is one approach that can help ameliorate this problem. A review of the existing research on student success reveals the need for complex, contextual socio-ecological models of success that can be used to tailor academic advising and other educational interventions to improve student success. Using Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory as a framework, this paper provides the theoretical and methodological justification of a study of social work students in a rural southeastern state with some of the greatest needs for social work services in the United States. Preliminary descriptive results are provided.

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Amy Fisher
Jandel Crutchfield
Na Youn Lee
Yi Jin Kim
Iuliia Churakova
Viktor Burlaka
Fisher, A., Crutchfield, J., Lee, N. Y., Kim, Y. J., Churakova, I., & Burlaka, V. (2020). An Ecological Approach to Social Work Student Success. TS Cuadernos De Trabajo Social, (19). Retrieved from https://tscuadernosdetrabajosocial.cl/index.php/TS/article/view/163

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