Full Description
This textbook equips social work students with the tools to develop a social work identity. It provides a critical examination of the knowledge base of social work - from human growth and development to social work research - and explores how a practitioner's own values, principles and experience combine to shape their social work identity and practice alongside this.
Linked to a range of core modules on pre-qualifying social work programmes but written also for those practitioners committed to nurturing their own social work identities, this is a must have text from one of social work's most up-and-coming authors that brings together all areas of the classroom and practice curriculum to make learning a novel, creative and interactive process.
Contents
Introduction
1. The Social Work Self
2. Human Development
3. Communication Skills
4. Social Work Theory
5. Everyday Ethics
6. Practice Learning in Organisational Settings
7. Research in Social Work
8. 'Doing' Social Work: Constituting the Professional Self
