@misc{10481/58330,
year = {2019},
month = {12},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/58330},
abstract = {Social work in the context of schools has been attracting growing interest in the Turkish education field over recent years, as evidenced by discussions and a significant body of literature regarding introducing social work services in schools alongside counselling services. However, while social workers and social work academics debate over the practicalities of social workers working in schools for various reasons including new employment opportunities and better education environments, it appears that none have examined counsellors’ perceptions about the possible future collaboration with social workers in schools. From our perspective, it is vital to know what and how counsellors think of social workers with regards to a possible future professional partnership. In this sense, our research investigated what counsellors, who were currently working in state schools, knew about social work, particularly in a school setting. Quantitative descriptive methods were employed to understand school counsellors’ perceptions. The study’s population consisted of 295 school counsellors that were working in state schools in Altındağ, Çankaya and Yenimahalle; three provinces in Ankara, Turkey. The study showed that although the counsellors’ reports suggested that they were self-assured in working with social workers in schools, they were not satisfied with their understanding of the social work profession, school social work in particular. The participants emphasized that familial problems and low levels of motivation towards school were prevalent problems for the students. The counsellors were not opposed to working with a social worker in schools; in fact the vast majority of the participants believed that working as part of a psychosocial team in schools could enhance school psychosocial services. Lastly, counsellors’ perceptions about social workers were dominantly positive despite their self-reported inadequate information of the social work discipline in general.},
abstract = {El trabajo social en el contexto escolar ha generado un creciente interés en el campo de la educación turca en los últimos años, tal como lo demuestra un importante cuerpo de la literature y los debates sobre la introducción de servicios de trabajo social en las escuelas de Turquía, junto a los servicios de asesoramiento y orientación. Sin embargo, mientras los profesionales y académicos del trabajo social debaten sobre los aspectos prácticos de esta incorporación profesional a las escuelas, argumentando varias razones y, entre ellas, las nuevas oportunidades de empleo y una mejora del entorno educativo, parece que ninguno ha examinado la percepción que los orientadores/asesores escolares tienen sobre esta posible colaboración futura con los trabajadores sociales. Desde nuestra perspectiva es vital conocer qué y cómo piensan los orientadores respecto a los trabajadores sociales como colegas profesionales en el futuro, y sobre estos aspectos indagó nuestra investigación. Se emplearon métodos descriptivos cuantitativos para comprender dichas percepciones. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 295 orientadores escolares que trabajaban en las escuelas estatales de Altındağ, Çankaya y Yenimahalle, tres provincias de Ankara, Turquía. El estudio mostró que, aún manifestando confianza en el trabajo conjunto, los orientadores escolares reconocieron su desconocimiento y escasa comprensión sobre la profesión del trabajo social y, en particular, el trabajo social escolar. Ya que los problemas familiares y bajos niveles de motivación eran problemas prevalentes, la gran mayoría creía que el trabajo en equipo podría mejorar los servicios psicosociales escolares. Así, las percepciones de los orientadores sobre los trabajadores sociales fueron predominantemente positivas, a pesar de reconocer su incompleta o inadecuada información sobre la disciplina del Trabajo Social.},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
keywords = {School Social Work},
keywords = {Counsellors},
keywords = {School},
keywords = {Education},
keywords = {Social workers},
keywords = {Trabajo social escolar},
keywords = {Trabajadores sociales},
keywords = {Orientadores escolares},
keywords = {Escuela},
keywords = {Educación},
title = {School Counsellors’ perceptions towards School Social Work in Turkey},
doi = {https://dx.doi.org/10.30827/tsg-gsw.v9i17.9075},
author = {Özkan, Yasemin and Çalış, Nurullah and Sever, Melih},
}