Social Work: A Companion to Learning

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Mark Lymbery, Karen Postle
SAGE, 13/04/2007 - 302 páginas
`In recent years, social work has been devalued by politicians and the media. However it requires practitioners equipped with key skills to empower individuals and communities and rooted in values which stimulate them to promote social justice. It is heartening that social work educators are at the forefront of equipping social workers with the skills and values to promote a better society. This book will open hearts and minds to achieve these ends' - Bob Holman, former Community Worker and Professor of Social Policy

Social Work: A Companion to Learning is an exciting and definitive new book that will equip readers with the core knowledge and skills they need to successfully complete their social work training, and go on to be an effective practitioner. The text takes a holistic and critical approach, not only enabling students and practitioners to understand how to practise social work effectively, but also how to locate this practice within its societal context.

Written and edited by leading experts in the field, each chapter skilfully explores key themes, issues, and concepts underpinning social work theory and practice in an engaging, authoritative and accessible way. The selection of topics serves to establish: the contexts through which social work education can best be understood; the core requirements and processes that characterise social work courses; the issues involved in continuing professional development. The chapters comprise a wide range of key issues, such as communication skills, partnership working, the values of social work, supervision, management, law, and research mindedness, as well as two unique chapters written exclusively from service users' perspectives.

Case studies, interactive questions, key points and further reading sections are used throughout the book to bring the material to life and aid readers' understanding. Social Work: A Companion to Learning will be a core text for students and practitioners at all levels, providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive companion they will need to help them progress in their careers.

Mark Lymbery has taught social work at the University of Nottingham since 1995. He is the author of Social Work with Older People (2005), also published by SAGE Publications. Karen Postle is a registered social worker with a background in counselling and family and neighbour mediation. She now teaches on the social work programmes at the University of East Anglia.

 

Índice

Introduction
1
Social work in challenging times
3
Contexts
9
The political societal and economic context of practice
11
The place of values in social work education
20
Uncertainty the defining characteristic of social work?
30
Social work and the use of self On becoming and being a social worker
40
Why bother? The truth about service user involvement
51
Partnership working The interdisciplinary agenda
145
Practice learning in context
156
Social work in a digital society
165
Thriving in practice
177
Social work in its organisational context
179
Continuous professional development
189
Professional development in the workplace
201
Partnership working service users and social workers learning and working together
215

Research mindedness
63
The rise and rise of interprofessional education?
74
Social work in an international context
86
Requirements and processes
99
Social work law
101
The process of social work Assessment planning intervention and review
111
Communication skills in social work
123
Understanding the life course
134
Using supervision support or surveillance?
228
Management
240
Value conflicts in practice
251
Conclusion
261
Opportunities and threats Social work in the twenty first century
263
Bibliography
269
Index
291
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Mark Lymbery is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Nottingham. He previously worked as a Social Worker for many years and is a member of the British Association of Social Workers. Karen Postle is a registered social worker with a background in counselling and family and neighbour mediation. She now teaches on the social work programmes at the University of East Anglia.

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