- Title
- Virtual world technology for developing social work counselling skills in mental health
- Creator
- Martin, Jennifer
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/181727
- Identifier
- vital:16019
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789897582677 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- When virtual worlds were introduced into post-secondary education in the early twenty-first century this was seen to be a technological innovation that would see widespread uptake in post-secondary human services education. However, the uptake of this technology has been slower than originally predicted. There are a number of examples of virtual worlds used to enhance the student learning experience in nursing, medicine and social work. In this paper a case study is presented of a virtual health centre that was developed for skill development in communication, assessment and intervention for students enrolled in health and human services disciplines. The case study presents evaluation data from the social work students who used this clinic for counselling skill development in mental health settings. The study found that the students were not convinced that virtual world technology was the preferred means for learning in a face-to-face environment as the activity could be easily replicated in the classroom. The discussion and conclusion give rise to a number of considerations for the successful application of virtual reality technology in social work and human services education into the future. Copyright © by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved
- Publisher
- SciTePress
- Relation
- 2017 International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2017 p. 95-102
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications
- Subject
- Human Services Learning; Post-Secondary Education; Teaching; Virtual World Technology
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