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Article: Words from the field.
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- Policy & Practice
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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It has been almost 20 years since the first "field" day of my graduate school internship in child welfare. I was working toward my master of social work degree and my one distinct memory of that day is of my supervisor, after giving me my supply of pens, paper and a desk calendar, letting me know to always put the location I was going to be at on my desk calendar.
Was this so that she could track my appointments and she could know that I was visiting my families? Was it so I could have a visual aid as to how often I was going out into the field? Was it so I could be found in case another family was looking for me? No, as she explained to me, it was in case ...