Full Description
Everything you need to succeed in your social work degree! Written by subject experts, this essential guide will introduce you to all the core areas of your course, helping you develop the knowledge and skills you need to practice with confidence.
Since launching in 2003, Transforming Social Work Practice has become the market-leading series for social work students. These books use activities and case studies to build critical thinking and reflection skills and will help social work students to develop good practice through learning. These books are:
· Affordable
· Written to the Professional Capabilities Framework
· Mapped to the social work curriculum
· Practical with clear links between theory and practice
Contents
PART I: SOCIAL WORK THEORY AND METHODS
Chapter 1: The history and context of contemporary social work (including global social work) - Jo Finch & Jonathan Parker
Chapter 2: Social work values and ethics - Steven Shardlow
Chapter 3: Theories and methods of social work practice - Barbra Teater and Katrina Hannan
Chapter 4: Social work and the law - Robert Johns
Chapter 5: Human growth and development in social work - Janet Walker
Chapter 6: The social work process: assessment, planning, intervention and review - Jonathan Parker
PART II: SOCIAL WORK SKILLS
Chapter 7: Anti-oppressive practice skills - Prospera Tedam
Chapter 8: Writing skills for social workers - Lucy Rai
Chapter 9: Critical thinking and reflective practice - Joanna Rawles
Chapter 10: Communication and interpersonal skills - Juliet Koprowska
Chapter 11: Courtroom skills for social workers - Allan Norman
Chapter 12: Group work skills - Timothy B. Kelly and Toby Berman-Rossi
Chapter 13: Leadership and management skills in social work - Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Chapter 14: Using research in social work - Brian J. Taylor
Chapter 15: Looking after yourself as a social worker - Jo Finch
Chapter 16: Creative skills for social workers - Jonathan Parker
PART III: SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTIONS IN PRACTICE
Chapter 17: Social work and safeguarding children - Nancy Kelly
Chapter 18: Social work with children and young people in need - Melanie Watts & Nick Frost
Chapter 19: Working with unaccompanied refugee minors - Deborah Hadwin, Helen Guizani & Gurnam Singh
Chapter 20: Social work and youth justice - Roger Smith & Sean Creaney
Chapter 21: Social work and mental health (children, young people and adults) - Toby Brandon, Carole Southall and Steve O'Driscoll
Chapter 22: Social work and disability (children, young people and adults) - Sally Lee
Chapter 23: Social work and learning disability/difficulties (children, young people and adults) - Emma Evans & Sally Lee
Chapter 24: Social work, fostering and adoption (working with children and adults) - Lucille Allain & Siobhan O'Farrell-Pearce
Chapter 25: Social work with asylum seekers and refugees - Kim Robinson
Chapter 26: Social work and substance use - Orlanda Harvey
Chapter 27: Social work with older people - Ann Anka
Chapter 28: Social work at the end of life: death, dying, bereavement and loss - Sue Taplin and Denise Turner
Chapter 29: Working with communities - Keith Popple
