University Education of Social Workers in Addictological Issues in Europe and the USA: a review

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

University Education of Social Workers in Addictological Issues in Europe and the USA: a review

Original language description

Academic training of social work students is fundamental to the development of a quality workforce. Historically, social workers have always worked with drug users. AIM: To provide an overview of evidence reported by research studies dealing with the university education of social workers in the field of substance use in Europe and the USA. METHODS: The search returned a total of 552 studies on the addiction-specific university education of social workers. Following information analysis using PRISMA, 19 articles were finally included in the study sample. The resulting product is a systematic review. RESULTS: More than half of the social work students have never received any specific training in addiction science, with only about one-third of them having received at least some form of education in the field. There is a lack of content consistency in addiction-specific courses taught within the social work study programmes. Less than half of the programmes under analysis offer elective courses covering addictological topics; and only in limited extent. Studying links between education, knowledge, and attitudes is important to gaining an understanding of the capabilities of social workers in addictological practice. Studies of the implementation of training approaches with addictological content are beneficial for improving knowledge and skills. CONCLUSIONS: Many social work students&apos; preparedness for work with addiction clients is inadequate. There should be a focus on the innovation of the curricula in social work, an emphasis on interdisciplinary cooperation, the inclusion of addiction issues in the curricula, and the promotion of a national platform for the accreditation and licencing of addiction study programmes and evidence-based approaches, and the dissemination of research results across academic institutions should be encouraged.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30312 - Substance abuse

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Adiktologie

ISSN

1213-3841

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

87-95

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85073810230