Modern Social Work Practice
Teaching and Learning in Practice Settings
3rd Edition
Published on 28. April 2005
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7546-4120-9 (ISBN)
Description
Modern Social Work Practice is a substantially new text which builds upon the success and style of Social Work Practice (1993) and The New Social Work Practice (1998). Mark Doel and Steven M. Shardlow have reshaped the book to take account of the National Occupational Standards for Social Work, aiming to provide a creative, practical and up-to-date learning resource in line with new practices. This is an interactive book designed to provide readers with an opportunity to engage with key aspects of modern social work practice, while also providing an excellent digest of the most important literature. Each chapter is introduced with an activity or exercise, designed to aid student learning in discrete aspects of practice and building to a complete curriculum for practice learning. Modern Social Work Practice includes much new or extended coverage of topics including: Service users' involvement in teaching and learning Managing challenging behaviour Working with groups and teams Accountability and confidentiality Whistleblowing Working with risk This book will be an invaluable textbook for students of social work in all three years of the new degree.
It will also be of interest to practising social workers, especially those engaged in training, teaching and assessing students.
It will also be of interest to practising social workers, especially those engaged in training, teaching and assessing students.
More details
Edition
3rd Revised ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Illustrations
6 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-4120-9 (9780754641209)
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Persons
Mark Doel is Research Professor of Social Work in the Centre for Health and Social Care Research at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He was a social worker for almost twenty years and has worked for two years in the United States. He held a joint appointment for ten years as a social worker and a lecture in social work at University of Sheffield. Professor Steven M. Shardlow is a Professor at the Salford Centre for Social Work Research, University of Salford, UK, and also in the Bodo University College, Norway. He joined the School of Community Health Sciences and Social Care in 2001, and was appointed foundation holder of the newly established Chair of Social Work. Previously he has directed a university post-graduate social work programme; managed a multi-disciplinary health and social care practice team in a local authority; and practised field and residential social work.
Content
Introduction. Foundations of practice: new opportunities for practice learning: Knowing the service user and carer; Knowing your self; Knowing the role. Direct practice: inter-professional learning and practice: Preparation; Generating options; Making assessments in partnership; Working in and with groups; Working in difficult situations. Agency practice: creative practice and procedural requirements; Making priorities; Managing resources; Accountability; Whistleblowing. Themes of practice: evidence - based practice; Working with risk; Anti - oppressive practice; Law - informed practice; Generalist and specialist practice; Comparative practice; Glossary; National Occupational Standards; Bibliography; Index.