Using mirrors and lenses for reflection in social work (Editorial)

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O’Leary, P
TSUI, MS
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2025
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Reflection including (1) individual reflection, (2) co-reflection, and (3) group reflection is a core element of our professional practice in social work. This explains why social workers need self-awareness in handling our intervention with our clients. Without reflection, our experience cannot be accumulated, categorized, and crystalized into practice wisdom. Without reflection we will not be able to check how and if social work values and purpose played out in our work. Without reflection, we cannot learn from frustrations and mistakes. Whenever we think that we are always right, reflection will allow us to question our assumptions and bring us back to being humble. Without this there will be nothing left.

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International Social Work

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68

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3

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© The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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Social work

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O’Leary, P; TSUI, MS, Using mirrors and lenses for reflection in social work, International Social Work, 2025, 68 (3), pp. 361-362

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