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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 for practice 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.
List of contents
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 and solution-focused approaches
Systems Theory and an Ecological Approach
Attachment Theory: Examining maternal sensitivity
Person-Centred Social Work
Groupwork
Task-Centred Social Work Practice
Crisis Intervention
The Social Models of Disability and Distress
About the author
Summary
Provides students with a quick and easy-to-access guide to the application of core skills to help them successfully complete an essential part of their social work course.
