While sexual harassment is a common experience for college students, we know little about incidences in social work field placements and how prepared students and field instructors are to deal with this issue.
In an exploratory survey of 535 students, professor Leila Wood found that only 51 percent of them had received training about sexual harassment; those who did felt more prepared to address safety concerns in their internships. The study results are published in the Journal of Social Work Education.