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<p>The breadth of social work field supervision includes engagement with human rights in social work field practice. This study provides an examination of human rights engagement among Liberian social work field supervisors through an evaluation of a human rights training among four Liberian social work programs. The training entitled, “Standardized Field Supervisor Orientation and Training,” was completed in the summer of 2022. The core goal of the training was to provide agency-based field supervisors with the&#xa0;knowledge, values, and skills needed&#xa0;to transfer their human rights comprehension to the&#xa0;mentoring and coaching of social work students in practice. Thirty-six social work field supervisors completed the Human Rights Engagement in Social Work (HRESW) scale developed by McPherson and Abell. Paired samples <i>t</i>-test measuring human rights engagement in social work yielded statistically significant pre-post changes in three areas. Qualitative analysis uncovered&#xa0;that field supervisors see themselves as teachers, counselors, and translators of human rights–based social work theory and advocacy, social work values, social work micro practice, and data-informed practice to students, but not necessarily as catalysts for direct action and transformative change. Further research regarding human rights engagement among social work field supervisors in Liberia and abroad is needed to support effective mentoring of students in human rights practice.</p>

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Examination of Human Rights in Liberian Social Work Field Education Programs

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年6月28日

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  • Sevaughn Banks,
  • Felicia J. Tuggle,
  • Sylvestine Payne-Gbessage

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The breadth of social work field supervision includes engagement with human rights in social work field practice. This study provides an examination of human rights engagement among Liberian social work field supervisors through an evaluation of a human rights training among four Liberian social work programs. The training entitled, “Standardized Field Supervisor Orientation and Training,” was completed in the summer of 2022. The core goal of the training was to provide agency-based field supervisors with the knowledge, values, and skills needed to transfer their human rights comprehension to the mentoring and coaching of social work students in practice. Thirty-six social work field supervisors completed the Human Rights Engagement in Social Work (HRESW) scale developed by McPherson and Abell. Paired samples t-test measuring human rights engagement in social work yielded statistically significant pre-post changes in three areas. Qualitative analysis uncovered that field supervisors see themselves as teachers, counselors, and translators of human rights–based social work theory and advocacy, social work values, social work micro practice, and data-informed practice to students, but not necessarily as catalysts for direct action and transformative change. Further research regarding human rights engagement among social work field supervisors in Liberia and abroad is needed to support effective mentoring of students in human rights practice.