An A-Z of Social Work Skills

First Edition

Michaela Rogers - The University of Sheffield, UK
Dan Allen - Manchester Metropolitan University

Courses:
Social Work Theory and Practice

October 2021 | 232 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory? Revising for your placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide.

Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this book will introduce you to over 60 key skills in a concise and no-nonsense way. You can test your knowledge and how to apply each skill in practice with Skills in Action, Stop-Reflect and Top Tips boxes.

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Active Listening

Advocacy

An anti-discriminatory approach

An anti-oppressive approach

Appreciative enquiry

Assertiveness

Assessment

Breaking bad news

Building resilience

Case recording

Chairing meetings

Challenging skills

Chronologies

Collaboration: working with Experts by Experience

Communicating with Children

Communicating with People with LD

Conflict management and resolution

Containing anxiety

Counselling skills

Court skills

Critical incident analysis

Critical thinking and analysis

Cross cultural practice

Dealing with hostility and aggression

Dealing with resistance

Eco mapping

Email communication

Emotional intelligence

Empathy

Empowerment and enabling

Endings

Ethical practice

Evidence-informed practice

F, G

Genograms

Giving and receiving feedback

Grief and loss

Group work

Home visits

Interpreters

Interprofessional practice

Interviewing

J, K, L

Life story work

Managing stress

Managing supervision

Mediation

Motivational interviewing

Non-verbal communication

Observational skills

Person-centred communication

Person-centred planning

Presentation skills

Professional challenge

Professional development

Professional judgement and decision-making

Professional values and ethics

Questioning

Radical social work

Rapport building

Reflective practice

Reflective writing

Report writing

Respecting confidentiality

Restorative practice

Risk assessment

Root Cause Analysis

Safeguarding

Setting and maintaining professional boundaries

Solution-focused techniques

Systemic practice techniques

Task-centred work

Telephone skills

Time management

Use of self and reflexivity

Using humour

Valuing difference

Working with protected characteristics

X, Y, Z

Definitely recommend this book for social work

Mrs Yasmin License

Accounting, Bradford College

April 12, 2022

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