Developing child welfare skills using in-person and virtual reality (VR)-based simulations
Read MoreVirtual Reality Tool Aids Social Workers | Grand Challenges for Social Work
Imagine walking into an unfamiliar home to assess risks and protective factors for child abuse; now, imagine doing this without ever leaving your desk. Chad McDonald, a PhD candidate and faculty member at the University of Utah College of Social Work, developed this idea while trying to improve training for undergraduate students and employees at […]
Read MoreVirtual Reality – The Next Stage of Caseworker Training
Presenters: Female Narrator; Tom Oates, Child Welfare Information Gateway; Chad McDonald, University of Utah College of Social Work; Matt Davis, University of Utah College of Social Work
Read MoreChanging the Way Child Welfare Workers Learn – College of Social Work – The University of Utah
The Virtual Home Simulator (VHS) is a virtual reality tool that aims to improve training for child welfare workers by simulating scenarios of assessing risks and protective factors for child abuse. The tool was developed by Chad McDonald, Ph.D., and Matt Davis, Ph.D., faculty in the College of Social Work at the University of Utah, […]
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This article reports on the development of a virtual reality tool for training social work students and child welfare workers. The tool, called the Virtual Home Simulator (VHS), was created by a team of researchers from the College of Social Work and the Therapeutic Games and Apps Lab at the University of Utah. The tool […]
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