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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 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.

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• List of Figures(p. vii)
• List of Tables(p. viii)
• About the Authors(p. ix)
• About the Contributors(p. xi)
• Acknowledgements(p. xiv)
• About the Companion Website(p. xv)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Part I Core Skills(p. 9)
• 1 Person-Centred Communication(p. 11)
• 2 Active Listening Skills(p. 22)
• 3 Communicating with Children(p. 30)
• 4 Emotionally Intelligent Social Work(p. 38)
• 5 Developing Empathic Skills(p. 45)
• 6 Reflection and Reflexivity(p. 53)
• 7 Understanding Values, Ethics and Human Rights(p. 62)
• 8 Valuing Difference and Diversity(p. 72)
• Part II Skills for Assessment and Interventions(p. 81)
• 9 Assessment Skills(p. 83)
• 10 Interviewing Skills(p. 90)
• 11 A Positive Approach to Safeguarding: Risk in Humane Social Work(p. 97)
• 12 Working with Service Users and Carers(p. 105)
• 13 Building Resilience(p. 119)
• 14 Conflict Management and Resolution(p. 127)
• 15 Research-Informed Practice(p. 137)
• 16 Writing Skills for Practice(p. 143)
• 17 Inter-Professional Practice and Working Together(p. 151)
• 18 Maximising Supervision(p. 162)
• 19 Review and Evaluation(p. 171)
• 20 Court Skills(p. 179)
• Part III Key Social Work Theories and Methods(p. 189)
• 21 Strengths-Based and Solution-Focused Approaches(p. 191)
• 22 Systems Theory and an Ecological Approach(p. 198)
• 23 Attachment Theory: Examining Maternal Sensitivity Scales(p. 206)
• 24 Person-Centred Social Work(p. 213)
• 25 Group work(p. 224)
• 26 Task-Centred Social Work Practice(p. 232)
• 27 Crisis Intervention(p. 240)
• 28 The Social Models of Disability and Distress(p. 246)
• Conclusion(p. 258)
• References(p. 259)
• Index(p. 277)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Michaela Rogers is Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford.
Dawn Whitaker is Lecturer in Social Work, Lancaster University.
David Edmondson was until recently a Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Donna Peach is Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford.