OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR SOCIAL WORK TRAINEES IN FIELD WORK

This study titled “Opportunities and challenges for Social Work Trainees in Nepal” is the bonafide research carried out by me (Amit Kumar Yadav) at School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya, Mangalore, as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Master of Social Work. 

·        A large majority of 92 per cent of the respondents are placed in Non governmental agencies for field work.

·        All of the respondents are involved in administrative work. A large majority of 82 per cent of the respondents are practicing social group work regularly in field work and a vast majority of 60 per cent respondents are also practicing social case work regularly during field work.

·   A relative majority of 48 per cent of the respondents never practiced social action method during field work.

·        All the respondents said that their field supervisors have Social work background.

·    A majority of 56 per cent of the respondents rated excellent/good for the individual conferences but 32 per cent of the respondents also rated it as very poor. A relative majority of 36 per cent of the BSW respondents rated individual conference as excellent whereas a relative majority of 45 per cent BASW respondents rated individual conference as very poor.

·  A relative majority of 48 per cent of the respondents rated group conference as excellent/good whereas 46 per cent of the respondents also rated it as very poor/poor. A relative majority of 54 per cent of the BASW respondents rated very poor for the group conference and a relative majority of 36 per cent BSW respondents rated it as excellent.

·  A relative majority of 46 per cent of the respondents rated excellent/good for the professional guidance from field supervisor and a majority of 56 per cent of the respondents rated excellent/good to the professional guidance from faculty supervisor.

·  A vast majority of 60 per cent of the respondents rated good/excellent for the opportunities to practice social work methods during field work.

·    A vast majority of 74 per cent of the respondents rated for opportunities to program planning and implementation as good/excellent indicating the possibility for faulty identification of social workers as program organizers than professionals.

• The main opportunities gained during field work are a) enhancing knowledge about administration work, b) platform to show creativity

·        The main challenges faced by social work trainees during field are a) not recognized as social work trainees (34 per cent), b) difficult to implement ideas (28 per cent), and c) not clear what to do (20 per cent).