Impact of an Infusion Model on Social Work Students' Aging Knowledge, Attitudes, and Interests

Sm, Cummings; K, McClure Cassie; Galambos, Colleen; Wilson, Elaine

doi:10.1300/j083v47n03_11

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“…11,12 Overall, the educational interventions used for nursing, medical, dental, and allied health students to date have had little to no effect on improving their general attitudes towards older adults. [27][28][29] Several investigations have studied the preexisting attitudes and beliefs that students may bring with them to school. Incoming students in both medicine and nursing have been surveyed to measure their knowledge and attitudes about older people.…”

Section: The Development Of Attitudes Beliefs and Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors That Influence Dental Students’ Attitudes About Older Adults

Nochajski

Waldrop

Davis

et al. 2009

Journal of Dental Education

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Our study considered dental students' general attitudes towards older persons using the Aging Semantic Differential. The influence of age, gender, cohort, education, and academic exposure on general attitudes towards older adults was evaluated using a total of 328 dental students across all four years of academic standing. Students were assessed in the fall and spring semesters. The results showed differential responding on the four subscales, with slight positive ratings on the autonomy, acceptability, and integrity subscales and a slight negative rating for instrumentality. Females expressed more negative attitudes than their male counterparts, with no age differences. There was also no significant impact from a specific, didactic educational component offered to the fourth-year students. However, the fourth-year students were the only group to show positive changes across the full academic year. The results suggest that general attitudes can be changed, but didactic (classroom) forms of education alone are insufficient to meaningfully modify students' perceptions of the elderly. Exposure to older adults in a clinical setting appears to be a critical element, as the fourth-year students received much greater exposure to older patients and more intensified interface with their mentors.

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Section: The Development Of Attitudes Beliefs and Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors That Influence Dental Students’ Attitudes About Older Adults

Nochajski

Waldrop

Davis

et al. 2009

Journal of Dental Education

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“…Others have proposed the use of the infused model (Abrams & Gibson, 2007;Cummings et al, 2006;Dyeson, 2004;Lee & Waites, 2006). Dyeson (2004) reported that, because education on diversity issues is infused throughout social work curricula, social workers gain an extensive education on these issues.…”

Section: Contrasting Infused and Dedicated Models Of Disability Educamentioning

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The Integration of Disability Content into Social Work Education: An Examination of Infused and Dedicated Models

Bean

Krcek²

2012

ASW

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Disability content has been slowly integrated into social work curricula despite the large proportion of social workers supporting people with disabilities and its requirement in social work education by the Council on Social Work Education Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Schools of social work offer disability content to their students in three ways: infused, dedicated (specialization), or a combination of both. A content analysis of 1620 course titles and descriptions from the top schools of social work was conducted to assess the integration of disability content into social work curricula. Eighty percent of the schools included disability content in their curriculum. Disability content was more likely to be integrated using the infused rather than the dedicated model.

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“…They found improved attitudes and gerontology competence resulted from their threepronged effort in the curriculum, faculty development, and an overall aging-rich environment. Cummings, Cassie, Gallambos, and Wilson (2006) used a quasi-experimental design to explore the impact of an aging infusion model in undergraduate and graduate classes on student's attitudes toward older adults. The authors found that information on gerontology broadens understanding of the importance of gerontological social work, and greater gains in knowledge resulted from infusion of aging content throughout an academic year.…”

Section: Student Knowledge Of and Attitude Toward Agingmentioning

confidence: 99%