Transition to professional social work practice: the initial year

This paper presents the findings of the first year of a three-year longitudinal study of new graduate social workers from a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program in Aotearoa New Zealand. We compare work outcomes and graduates' perceptions of their readiness for practice against the New Zealand Social Workers Registration Board's (SWRB's) 10 core competencies. This study's impetus came from an increase in the professionally accepted minimum...