Developing Skills for Social Work Practice

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4739-1377-6
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

Are your students struggling to get to grips with what social work actually looks like in real-life practice? Are they wanting to know more about how they can develop the right skills and implement the right theory in many different practice situations?

Then you have come to the right place! This book will provide your students with everything they need to know and more, helping them develop and hone their skills and make the best start in their practice placements.

To get the most out of this book and access more materials to support them through their social work degree, visit the companion website at https://www.study.sagepub.com/rogers to read journal articles, access ‘how to.’ guides and helpful links, as well as hear first-hand from frontline social workers, services users, carers and more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rogers, Michaela

Whitaker, Dawn

Edmondson, David

Peach, Donna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Core Skills
Person-Centred Communication
Active Listening Skills
Communicating with Children
Emotionally Intelligent Social Work
Developing Empathic Skills
Reflection and Reflexivity
Understanding Values, Ethics and Human Rights
Valuing Difference and Diversity
Skills for Assessment and Interventions
Assessment Skills
Interviewing Skills
A Positive Approach to Safeguarding: Risk in Humane Social Work
Working with Service Users and Carers
Building Resilience
Conflict Management and Resolution
Research-Informed Practice
Writing Skills for Practice
Inter-Professional Practice and Working Together
Maximising Supervision
Review and Evaluation
Court Skills
Key Social Work Theories and Methods
Strengths-Based and Solution-Focused Approaches
Systems Theory and an Ecological Approach
Attachment Theory: Examining Maternal Sensitivity Scales
Person-Centred Social Work
Group Work
Task-Centred Social Work Practice
Crisis Intervention
The Social Models of Disability and Distress

Über Autor(innen)

Edmondson, David
David was until recently a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. He worked for many years as a qualified mental health social worker and service manager in central Manchester. His previous book, Social Work Practice Learning was published by SAGE in 2014.

Whitaker, Dawn
Dawn Whitaker is a lecturer at Lancaster University and registered independent social work consultant and trainer. Dawn worked as a mental health social worker in the North West of England for many years, before joining a Local Authority training department to deliver teaching on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Dawn subsequently joined the NHS as a locality Mental Capacity Act implementation lead, with particular responsibility for implementing the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS). As an Independent Social Worker, Dawn is regularly instructed by the Official Solicitor for the Court of Protection, specifically in cases where there is a health and social care dispute, or an adult is deemed to be ‘at risk’ requiring ‘safeguarding’. Dawn continues to undertake ISW work, and has been involved in a number of high-profile, landmark cases such as Cheshire West [Cheshire West and Chester Council v P (2011) EWHC 1330 (COP)] and LBX v K & Ors [2013] EWHC 3230 (Fam).

Peach, Donna
Donna is a registered social worker whose 30 year career includes a range of positions in therapeutic residential childcare, child protection teams, and CAFCASS. During the last eight years of her career, Donna worked as an expert witness for the family courts. Her academic and research interests are complemented by her role as a critical social psychologist, her PhD is a phenomenological analysis of prospective adoptive parents’ experiences. In addition, Donna has lead roles in several child sexual abuse and exploitation research studies including Rotherham MBC’s, CSE Needs Analysis; Voluntary Action Rotherham’s Base project; Barnardo’s real love rocks CSE practitioner training resource; Greater Manchester Police CTZN project and evaluation of MOSAIC II, a charity providing therapeutic support to victims, families and survivors of child sexual abuse. Finally, Donna is commissioned by NHS England to manage the development of a psychosocial assessment model, designed to enhance disclosures of sexual abuse between children, young people and professionals.

Rogers, Michaela
Dr Michaela Rogers is a lecturer of social work who is involved in both research and teaching across the areas of social care, social justice, equality and diversity, safeguarding, interpersonal violence and gender. Dr Rogers has delivered and worked alongside colleagues on a range of projects in the voluntary and public sector. These projects typically aim to explore social problems in terms of everyday experiences or assess the impact of service delivery or specific policy initiatives. Dr Rogers is a qualified social worker registered with the profession’s regulatory body in England, the Health and Care Professions Council.