Social Work Skills

2. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-335-22814-0
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

"The second edition is very welcome and represents and extremely useful

addition to theory/models texts. Pam brings a very lively style of debate to

these issues and, extremely importantly, adds a critical edge which is what

students require within the realm of contemporary practice."

Professor Jonathan Parker, Head of Department of Social Work, University of Hull.

- What skills do social workers need to become effective practitioners?

- How can these skills be perfected and made transferable across different service user and carer groups, contexts, and countries?

- How can these skills be used to enhance multi-agency co-operation and collaboration?

Written by an experienced academic-practitioner, the new edition of this best-selling text is updated to include the current educational, policy and practice context of social work. It includes descriptions of over fifty social work skills, with case examples to illustrate their creative use in practice. Giving a name to these skills, and being able to identify and demonstrate their effective use in contemporary social work practice, highlights the importance of an evidence based and research led approach to practice.

In particular, this edition contains new material on:

- Social work methods, practice approaches and perspectives

- The knowledge base of social work and the importance of the relationship between theory and practice

- How the terms skill and intervention are defined and effectively applied in practice

The starting point for this text is that social work is – and has to be - a highly skilled activity. It is important to stress this fact because social work practitioners work with some of the most complex, unpredictable and troubling areas of human experience. For this reason, social work practice is also an intellectual activity. This calls for practitioners to acquire a ‘toolbox’ of skills that can be used to enable people to move forward.

Social Work Skills is essential reading for all social work students and a valuable reference text for practising social workers and human service professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trevithick, Pamela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The knowledge base of social work: Theoretical, factual and practice knowledge

Social work skills, interventions and practice effectiveness

Understanding human beings

Communication, listening and assessment skills

Basic interviewing skills

Providing help, direction and guidance

Empowerment, negotiation and partnership skills

Professional competence and accountability

Conclusion

Appendices

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pamela Trevithick started in social work in 1972 and trained in 1980. Since then she has practised in Birmingham, London and Bristol as a residential social worker, education welfare officer, statutory social worker, groupworker and team manager. She is Senior Lecturer (half-time) in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, and a groupwork practitioner, trainer and consultant. She is the co-editor of the journal Groupwork, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Social Work Practice.