Social Work: A Companion to LearningMark 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 |
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