caa a22 4500 606211632 CHVBK 20210128101039.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10615-015-0517-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10615-015-0517-6 What They Bring: How MSW Students Think About Mental Disorder and Clinical Knowledge [Elektronische Daten] [Barbara Probst, Catherine Balletto, Nichole Wofford] Social work educators are charged with preparing the next generation of clinical practitioners, since social workers provide the majority of the nation's mental health services. Yet little is known about the "soil” onto which instruction falls—the ideas about mental disorder that MSW students bring to their clinical assessment courses. Without understanding the concepts that students already have, it is difficult to know how material is actually assimilated and translated into practice. Thus, a survey was conducted of MSW students (N=388) at three graduate programs in the Northeastern U.S. Responses to open-ended questions were analyzed by iterative thematic analysis. Differences among response patterns at the three sites, corresponding to demographic differences among the students, suggest that both personal and work experience profoundly affect students' views of disorder; specifically, the experiences of race and privilege may be crucial to the development of MSW students' thinking about the nature of mental disorder and clinical knowledge. Implications for teaching and learning are offered. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Mental disorder nationallicence Clinical knowledge nationallicence MSW students nationallicence Mental schemas nationallicence Probst Barbara Smith College, School for Social Work, Northampton, MA, USA aut Balletto Catherine Smith College, School for Social Work, Northampton, MA, USA aut Wofford Nichole Smith College, School for Social Work, Northampton, MA, USA aut Clinical Social Work Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 43/4(2015-12-01), 419-430 0091-1674 43:4<419 2015 43 10615 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-015-0517-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-015-0517-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Probst Barbara Smith College, School for Social Work, Northampton, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Balletto Catherine Smith College, School for Social Work, Northampton, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wofford Nichole Smith College, School for Social Work, Northampton, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clinical Social Work Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 43/4(2015-12-01), 419-430 0091-1674 43:4<419 2015 43 10615