{"id":939,"date":"2021-07-21T10:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/simlab\/?p=939"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:17:21","slug":"special-issue-spotlight-navigating-uncertainty-in-clinical-social-work-practice-a-pilot-simulation-based-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/2021\/special-issue-spotlight-navigating-uncertainty-in-clinical-social-work-practice-a-pilot-simulation-based-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Issue Spotlight \u2013 Navigating Uncertainty in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Pilot Simulation-Based Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Special Issue Spotlight \u2013 Navigating Uncertainty in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Pilot Simulation-Based Study\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/YcZTSDM8_400x400.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/YcZTSDM8_400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/YcZTSDM8_400x400-160x160.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/YcZTSDM8_400x400-240x240.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/YcZTSDM8_400x400-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/226\/YcZTSDM8_400x400-360x360.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Lab Director Kenta Asakura and Lab Affiliate Marion Bogo recently published a special issue in the <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/10615\/volumes-and-issues\/49-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clinical Social Work Journal, Volume 49, issue 2<\/a>. This special issue is the first of its kind to canvas contemporary scholarly works on simulation in advancing our professional commitment to clinical social work education and practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, we spotlight the article <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10615-021-00800-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Navigating Uncertainty in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Pilot Simulation-Based Study<\/em><\/a>, featuring our Lab Director <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/simlab\/people\/kenta-asakura-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenta Asakura<\/a>, Co-Director <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/simlab\/people\/sarah-todd-co-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Todd<\/a>, Lab Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/simlab\/people\/katherine-occhiuto-lab-manager-lead-research-assistant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katherine Occhiuto<\/a>, and Lab Affiliate Pamela Grassau. In this paper, the authors employ simulation-based methodologies and live standardized clients to explore clinical social workers\u2019 encounters with uncertainty and the strategies they use to navigate it. The authors found two themes emerge from the data: (1) there is a variation between less experienced participants who navigated uncertainty in pragmatic, task focused ways and more experienced practitioners who focused on the wider relationship with the client; and (2) less experienced practitioners tended towards struggling against uncertainty while more experienced practitioners demonstrated an ability to sit and wade within it. These findings speak to the need to better understand specific aspects of uncertainty in clinical practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the special issue of the Clinical Social Work Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/10615\/volumes-and-issues\/49-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lab Director Kenta Asakura and Lab Affiliate Marion Bogo recently published a special issue in the Clinical Social Work Journal, Volume 49, issue 2. This special issue is the first of its kind to canvas contemporary scholarly works on simulation in advancing our professional commitment to clinical social work education and practice. This week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/simlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}