Full Description
A supplemental competency-based practice text for BSW and MSW programs. Competency-Based Social Work Practice: An Integrated Approach to Decision Making captures how social workers actually practice with clients in their daily work, make case decisions using integrative competencies and EPAS, and reflects how social workers approach decision making. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience--for you and your students. Here's how: Personalize Learning -MySearchLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Critical Thinking - Students arechallenged to examine their own values, increase their self-awareness, and put into practice the concepts discussed. Engage Students - Uses cases based on real life experience from former MSW students. Explore Current Issues - Uses contemporary case illustrations from a broad range of practice settings and client populations. Apply CSWE Core Competencies - The textis centered around the 2008 CSWE EPAS, by demonstrating the integration of competencies through the decision making process in social work practice. Support Instructors - An Instructor's Manual and Test Bank, MySearchLab, and PowerPoint presentations are included in the outstanding supplements package.
Contents
IN THIS SECTION:1.) BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS 2.) FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS WorkChapter 1: Competency Based Social Work Chapter 2: Evaluating Practice Part Two: Field Education: A Signature Pedagogy In Social Work EducationChapter 3: Using Process Recording With a Suicidal Client Chapter 4: Enhancing Skills in Child Welfare Practice through Supervision Part Three: Case Decision Making: Integrating CompetenciesChapter 5: Working With an Urban Child at an Inner-City Community Center Chapter 6: Accessing Social Services for a Woman with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness Chapter 7: Winning an HMO Appeal for a Transplant Patient Chapter 8: Helping an Incarcerated Survivor of Domestic Violence Chapter 9: Intervening With a Self-Harming Adolescent in a School Chapter 10: Working With an Older Adult COMPETENCY BASED SOCIAL WORK Chapter 1: Competency Based Social Work What is Competency-Based Social work Practice?About this TextCase Decision Making Social Worker Reflections on Case DecisionsIntegrative CompetenciesSocial Work Education Moves to Competency-Based PracticeLinking Case Decisions, Reflections, Integrative Competencies and EPAS: Eight Case Illustrations.References Chapter 2: Evaluating Practice Literature ReviewThe Case of John: Applying Single System Design to Assess the Efficacy of an Art Therapy Intervention. MethodologyFindingsDiscussionReferences PART TWO: Using Process Recording With a Suicidal Client Process Recording: A Tool for Building CompetenciesThe Case of Hanna: From the Perspective of a Graduate Social Work Student The Process Recording How Process Recording Assisted in Skill Development and its Connection to Integrative Competencies.ConclusionReferences Chapter 4: Enhancing Skills in Child Welfare Practice through SupervisionThe Andrews Case: Presented From the Perspective of the SupervisorCase DecisionsHow Integrative Competencies Guide Decision Making Fluidity of Integrative Competencies: From the Perspective of the SupervisorConclusionReferences PART THREE: CASE DECISION MAKING: INTEGRATING COMPETENCIES Chapter 5: Working With an Urban Child at an Inner-City Community Center The Case of Josh: From the Perspective of a Graduate Social Work Student Case DecisionsHow Integrative Competencies Guide Decision Making ConclusionReferences Chapter 6: Accessing Social Services for a Woman with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness The Case of Ellen: From the Perspective of a Social Worker in a Community Social Service AgencyCase Decisions How Integrative Competencies Guide Decision Making SummaryReferences Chapter 7: Winning an HMO Appeal for a Transplant Patient The Trotter Case: Presented from the Perspective of a Social Worker in a Kidney Dialysis CenterDecisionsHow Integrative Competencies Guide Decision Making SummaryReferences Chapter 8: Helping an Incarcerated Survivor of Domestic Violence The Case of Amy: From the Perspective of a Social WorkerCase DecisionsModel of Growth and Recovery How Integrative Competencies Guide Decision Making Summary References Chapter 9: Intervening With a Self-Harming Adolescent in a School The Case of Jennifer: From the perspective of a Graduate Social Work Student Case DecisionHow Integrative Competencies Guide Decision Making ConclusionReferences Chapter 10: Working With an Older Adult in HospiceThe Case of Frederick India: From the Perspective of a Hospice Social WorkerCase Decisions How Integrative Competencies Guide Decision Making SummaryReferences
