Developing Skills and Knowledge for Social Work Practice

Second Edition

Michaela Rogers - University of Sheffield, UK
Dawn Whitaker - Lancaster University, UK
David Edmondson - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Donna Peach - The University of Salford, UK

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April 2020 | 384 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This very practical guide will teach students everything they need to know to successfully apply theory, methods and approaches in real-life practice. It will assist in developing and hone their skills to make the best start in their practice placement and beyond as a newly qualified practitioner.

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Introduction

Part I: Core Skills

1. Person-Centred Communication

2. Active Listening Skills

3. Communicating with Children

4. Emotionally Intelligent Social Work

5. Developing Empathic Skills

6. Reflection and Reflexivity

7. Understanding Values, Ethics and Human Rights

8. Valuing Difference and Diversity

9. Resilience and Self Care

10. Time Management

Part II: Skills for Assessment and Interventions

11. Assessment Skills

12. Interviewing Skills

13. A Positive Approach to Safeguarding: Risk in Humane Social Work

14. Working with Service Users and Carers

15. Building Resilience in Service Users

16. Conflict Management and Resolution

17. Research-Informed Practice

18. Writing Skills for Practice

19. Inter-Professional Practice and Working Together

20. Maximising Supervision

21. Review and Evaluation

22. Court Skills - Dawn Whitaker

Part III: Key Social Work Theories and Methods

23. Strengths-Based and Solution-Focused Approaches

24. Systems Theory and an Ecological Approach

25. Narrative Social Work

26. Task-Centred Social Work Practice

27. Person-Centred Social Work

28. Group work - Michaela Rogers

29. Attachment Theory: Examining Maternal Sensitivity Scales

30. Grief and Loss

31. Crisis Intervention

32. The Social Models of Disability and Distress

33. Social Work Activism

Conclusion

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New to this edition:
- Chapter 9: Resilience and Self-Care
- Chapter 10: Time Management
- Chapter 25: Narrative Social Work
- Chapter 30: Grief and Loss
-Chapter 33: Social Work Activism
- Glossary terms highlighted in bold (glossary can be found online)

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- New SAGE Video selections for most chapters, with accompanying discussion questions
- New additional 'How to...' guides
- Updated journal articles
- New glossary

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