Full Description
Highlights best practice beyond the traditional models and methods of assessment and care planning. Through original research it discovers hidden practice -the social techniques that social workers deploy in the field that make child and family assessments work.
Contents
Introduction.- Exploring Policy and Practice.- Making Social Work Practice Visible: Using Ethnography in Social work.- Locating Frontline Practice: Models and Methods of Social Work Practice .- Voices from Practice: Uncovering Social Work Practices.- Reclaiming Social Work: Developing a Social Model of Practice.- Conclusion