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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.
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Social Work Process and Practice: Approaches, Knowledge and Skills David Watson and Janice West
Social Work Process and Practice
Also by Janice West:
Social Work and the Law in Scotland (co-edited)*
*Also published by Palgrave Macmillan
Social Work Process and Practice: Approaches, Knowledge and Skills David Watson and Janice West Consultant editor: Jo Campling
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Contents List of Figures and Tables
vi
Preface
vii
Acknowledgements Chapter 1
x
New Professionalism: The Challenge for Social Work Practice
1
Chapter 2
Approaches to Practice
12
Chapter 3
Assessment: Purpose, Process and Approach
30
Chapter 4
Methods of Intervention: Purpose and Process
51
Chapter 5
Methods of Intervention: Working with Presenting Issues
71
Chapter 6
Methods of Intervention: Working on Feelings
91
Chapter 7
Selecting Methods
110
Chapter 8
Reflection and Supervision
127
Chapter 9
Evaluation of Practice: Learning for the Future
147
Chapter 10 Conclusion: Approaches to Practice and Modern Social Work
165
Bibliography
172
Index
179
v
List of Figures and Tables
Figures 2.1 5.1 5.2 6.1 6.2 8.1
Developing an approach to social work practice Task-centred casework Behavioural social work Psychosocial casework Crisis intervention Cycle of reflection on action
29 74 82 92 101 130
Tables 4.1 Methods of intervention 4