Synopses & Reviews
This important new textbook examines the knowledge, skills, and values that underpin current social work. It emphasizes the need for workers to consider their approach to practice and how this may impact on the assessment, intervention, and evaluation of their work with service users. With its clear focus on skills, social work processes, and the suitability of different methods, this text offers students a toolkit for applying theoretical frameworks to actual practice situations.
Synopsis
This new textbook examines the knowledge, skills and values that underpin and inform current social work practice and processes. With a clear focus on skills, social work processes and the suitability of different methods, Watson offers students a toolkit for applying theoretical frameworks to actual practice situations.
Synopsis
This introductory text is an essential tool for social work students and practitioners seeking to apply theory to actual practice situations.
About the Author
DAVID WATSON and JANICE WEST are both Senior Lecturers in Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Table of Contents
List of Tables * Preface * Acknowledgements * New Professionalism - The Challenge for Social Work Practice * Approaches to Practice * Assessment: Purpose, Process and Approach * Methods of Intervention: Purpose and Process * Methods of Intervention: Working with Presenting Issues * Methods of Intervention: Working on Feelings * Selecting Methods * Reflection and Supervision * Evaluation of Practice: Learning for the Future * Conclusion: Approaches to Practice and Modern Social Work * Appendix * Bibliography