Training Program for Geriatric Social Workers

描述（由申请人提供）：至少有4个因素强调了社会工作者继续专业教育的必要性：1)人口多样性和老龄化的急剧增加；2)快速变化的政策要求；(3)相关行业竞争加剧；(4)新技术、新服务、新资源不断涌现。尽管显然需要高质量的培训，使社会工作者能够在这种不断变化的环境中取得成功，但文献表明，人们越来越认识到传统的社会工作继续教育中的转移问题。培训转移问题在老年社会工作领域尤为严重。为了解决这个问题，NERI与波士顿大学的老年社会工作研究所（IGSW）合作，开发并测试了一个培训项目，即与老年人一起工作项目，该项目旨在最大限度地提高社会工作者的实践技能，并采用经过验证的专业教育技术。该计划将包括一系列短视频和培训师指南，可用于在工作场所方便且经济高效地提供的小组培训课程。这些视频将被设计成可以作为独立的培训工具。此外，为了自主学习，该计划将被修改并制作成光盘。该项目将采取以证据为基础、以客户为中心的方法与老年人合作，将很容易地纳入现有的培训，并将为社会工作学校、社区机构和个人从业人员提供服务。与关于成人如何学习新技能的教育研究证据一致，该计划的一个主要目标是通过使用专业质量的戏剧性视频片段来模拟适当的评估和沟通技巧。专家评论将伴随每个小插曲，以加强教学点。第一阶段的目标包括：1)为整个项目制定详细的内容大纲；2)为原型视频和相关培训师指南的内容开发脚本处理；3)制作《培训师指南》的原型视频和相关章节；（四）方案可行性评估；5)制定第二期生产计划；6)制定商业化计划。7. 项目描述：继续教育是社会工作者老年护理专业培训的主要来源。与老年人一起工作项目的目标是培养核心能力，这些能力可以在医院、养老院和社区机构等一系列实践环境中应用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): At least 4 factors underscore the need for continuing professional education for social workers: 1) dramatic increases in the diversity and aging of our population; 2) rapidly shifting policy imperatives; 3) growing competition from related professions, and 4) the emergence of new technologies, services, and resources. In spite of the clear need for high-quality training to enable social workers to succeed in this changing environment, the literature indicates growing recognition of a transfer problem in traditional continuing education in social work. The training transfer problem is particularly acute for the field of geriatric social work. To address this problem, NERI has partnered with the Institute for Geriatric Social Work (IGSW) at Boston University to develop and test a training program, the Working with Older Adults Program, for practicing social workers that maximizes the transfer of practice skills and employs proven techniques of professional education. The program will consist of a series of short videos and a Trainer's Guide that can be used in small-group training sessions delivered conveniently and cost-efficiently in the workplace. The videos will be designed so that they can also be used as a free-standing training tool. In addition, for self-directed learning, the program will be modified and produced on CD-ROM. The program will take an evidence-based, client-centered approach to working with older adults, will be readily incorporated into existing training, and will be accessible to schools of social work, community-based agencies, and individual practitioners. Consistent with evidence from educational research on how adults learn new skills, a major objective of the program will be to model appropriate assessment and communication skills through the use of professional-quality videotaped dramatic vignettes. Expert commentary will accompany each vignette in order to reinforce the teaching points. The Aims of Phase I include: 1) development of a detailed content outline for the full program; 2) development of a script treatment for the prototype video and the content for the associated Trainers Guide; 3) production of the prototype video and related sections of the Trainers Guide; 4) assessment of the feasibility of the program; 5) development of the Phase II production schedule; and 6) development of a commercialization plan. 7. PROJECT NARRATIVE: Continuing education is the primary source of specialty training in geriatric care for social workers. The objective of the Working with Older Adults Program is to develop core competencies that can be applied across a range of practice settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, and community agencies.