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Social work students’ perceptions of ageing
Ridgway, Victoria
Ridgway, Victoria
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2018-06-23
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Little is understood about social work students or social workers’ perceptions of ageing in the UK. This paper presents a small-scale study of 20 master social work students’ perceptions of ageing during the first year of their programme. A mixed method approach was employed over a two-staged research project, in both stages the social work students were asked to complete Kogan’s (1961) Attitudes Towards Older People Scale (KATOPS) and draw a person aged 75. Results demonstrated that most students had neutral to positive attitudes towards older people at the beginning of the programme and these improved in stage two; all had positive attitudes. The drawings provided a visual narrative of their perceptions of older people, visual signifiers included physical signs of ageing. Fulfilment, emotion, family, individuality and appearance were emergent themes. Whilst the programme enhanced the students’ perceptions more work is needed to dispel the myths and stereotypes about ageing
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Ridgway, V. (2018). Social work students’ perceptions of ageing. Practice, 31(2), 117-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503153.2018.1473356
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Taylor & Francis
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Practice
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Practice on 23-6-18, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/09503153.2018.1473356
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0950-3153
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1742-4909