CiNii Books - Modern social work practice : teaching and learning in practice settings

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.

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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.

Volume: : pbk ISBN 9780754641216

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Modern Social Work Practice is an interactive book designed to provide readers with an opportunity to engage with key aspects of current social work practice. It also provides an excellent digest of the significant literature. Each chapter is introduced with an activity or exercise designed to aid student learning in discrete aspects of practice, building up to a complete curriculum for practice learning. The book 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 shaped the book to take account of the National Occupational Standards for Social Work, aiming to provide a creative, practical and up-to-date resource for teaching and learning in line with current practices.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction. Part I Foundations of practice: new opportunities for practice learning: Knowing the service user and carer
Knowing your self
Knowing the role. Part II Direct practice: inter-professional learning and practice: Preparation
Generating options
Making assessments in partnership
Working in and with groups
Working in difficult situations. Part III Agency practice: creative practice and procedural requirements
Making priorities
Managing resources
Accountability
Whistleblowing. Part IV Themes of practice: evidence-based practice
Working with risk
Anti-oppressive practice
Law-informed practice
Generalist and specialist practice
Comparative practice
Appendix: National Occupational Standards
Glossaries
Bibliography
Index.

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