基本説明
Guides the reader through what it takes to be a social worker, as well as covering the basics of social work practice.
Full Description
This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it covers social work with many service user groups including children and families, adults, older people, disabled people and people with mental health problems as well as specialist areas of practice.
Contents
Introduction; Part One: Preparing for social work: Introducing social work; Qualifying programmes in social work; Becoming a social worker; Organisation, legal basis and regulation of social work;
Part Two: Practising social work: Social work with children, young people and their families; Social work with adults and health-related services; Social work with older people; Social work with disabled people; Social work with mental health, illness and recovery; Social work with groups and communities.
