Full Description
Skills for Human Service Practice: Working with Individuals, Groups and Communities, 2e covers all the skills and theoretical frameworks that beginning practitioners and students in Human Services need. It encourages a critical reflective perspective to help students to mindfully reflect on their practice, in order to help them deal with the frustrations and difficulties that they will encounter in their practice. It lays out the theory and framework and then looks at specific skill sets in light of the frameworks and theories mentioned in the first half of the book. The two new chapters, Research skills for Practitioners and Becoming and Being a Professional Practitioner, extend the students and help them make the transition from learning to practice.
Contents
Introduction1. Critical Reflection for Practice2. Professional Values and Ethical Practice3. Making the Most of Supervision4. The Practitioner's Use of Self in The Professional Relationship5. Cultural Diversity in Practice Working with Migrants and Refugees6. Cultural Diversity in Practice Working with Indigenous people - A Meeting of Minds, and Hearts7. Risk Assessment Working Within a Legal Framework8. Effective Communication9. The Microskills of Interviewing10. Conducting Assessment Some General Guidelines11. Advocacy in Practice12. Understanding and Managing Conflict13. Introduction to Working with Groups14. Intervention Strategies for Working with Groups15. Working Effectively in Teams16. Asset-based Community Development: Recognising and Building on Community Strengths17. Community Education18. Research skills for Practitioners19. Becoming and Being a Professional Practitioner
