Full Description
Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfare has established itself as the essential text to prepare students for the wide-ranging challenges they will face in today's human service sector.
This new fourth edition continues the text's core strength of connecting theory with practical examples to build the reader's confidence and expertise in key areas of practice.
Part 1 outlines the critical social work and strengths-based practices that underpin the book's approach and provides the context for learning practice skills in a group setting, during community development projects and with individuals and families. Part 2 focuses on developing effective relationships with service users, illustrating through realistic scenarios how social work and human service practitioners can apply their practice skills in a range of settings. In Part 3, the essential elements of client assessment are explored, including risk assessment and cross-cultural perspectives. Issues surrounding intervention are examined in Part 4 from working with families and groups to challenging constructively and safely, while research, evaluation and facilitating closure are covered in the final part.
This fourth edition is fully revised and updated and features new material on working with technology, Pasifika communities, LGBTQI+ service users and culturally responsive practice.
Contents
Part one: The theory and context for learning practice skills. 1.The integrated framework. 2.Critical social work practice. 3.Learning and teaching practice skills in social work and welfare. 4.Decolonisation for social work practice: Preparing to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) peoples. 5.Technology and social work practice. Part Two: Engagement. 6.Developing the helping relationship. 7.Engagement with families involved in the statutory system. 8.Community engaged social work practice. 9.Communication in health care. Part Three: Assessment. 10.Assessment: Frameworks and components. 11.Risk assessments and critical social work. 12.Intersectional approaches to culturally responsive assessment practices. 13.Working with families. 14.Assessment with Māori. Part Four: Intervention. 15.Taking action: Change and intervention. 16."Direct, with respect": Challenging constructively. 17.Social change through group work. 18.Social work with older LGBTQ+ adults. Part Five: Evaluation and closure. 19.Research and evaluation in social work practice. 20.Facilitating closure.
