The profession of social work has historically placed great emphasis on the centrality of values. However, there have been few empirical studies of specific values education strategies to enhance the professional socialization of social work students. This study assumes that the infused approach of values education is a "necessary but not sufficient" model. It highlights the development of an educational module teaching values integration to graduate social work students. This module integrates the dimensions of personal, social, political, and professional values. The Values Integration Pyramid (VIP) module is theoretically grounded, and incorporates Jack Mezirow's (1991) Transformation Theory, one of the newer adult learning theories. / A quasi-experimental design was utilized to examine the effectiveness of the VIP module. The study also describes the differences among values that entering two-year MSW students enrolled in an introductory practice course at a southern university bring to social work education. Concurrence with social work values was measured by the Professional Opinion Scale (POS) developed by Abbott (1988). The association of students' political philosophy and previous exposure to oppression content course(s), and concurrence with social work values is examined. / ANOVA and ANCOVA procedures did not identify a significant intervention effect of the VIP module. Students' political philosophy and oppression course(s) exposure were found to be associated with social work value concurrence when examined through biserial correlation. Further development of the VIP module is needed, along with continuing research in values education strategies' effectiveness. Additionally, values research is needed to examine differential strategies with students of varying political philosophies. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-07, Section: A, page: 2735. / Major Professor: Linda Vinton. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76946 |
| Contributors | Haynes, Dennis Tilton., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 200 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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