Help your students make the best starts in their careers as a Social Worker. Covering everything they need to know in their first year and beyond, this very practical book will guide them through their degree and into practice.
Packed full of case studies, activities and tools for real-life practice, it will:
Help students get to grips with and build the essential knowledge and skills base Support them to develop a range of tools for practice with different service user groups
Develop their critical thinking and help them to apply their learning in practice Provide them with a springboard for further learning and development.
Edited by:
Joyce Lishman,
Janine Bolger,
Neil Gibson,
Gary Spolander,
Chris Yuill
Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 232mm,
Width: 186mm,
Weight: 1.250kg
ISBN: 9781529602586
ISBN 10: 1529602580
Pages: 704
Publication Date: 19 May 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I: Knowledge Base Chapter 1: Values, Ethics And Anti-Discriminatory Practice - Julian Bell and Sach Magill Chapter 2: Law - Heather Munro Chapter 3: Social Work: A political Profession - Gary Spolander Chapter 4: Sociology - Megan Todd and Chris Yuill Chapter 5: Material Circumstances, Poverty And Income Inequality - Chris Yuill and Alice Butler-Warke Chapter 6: Psychological Approaches: Their Application And Relevance To Social Work - Rita Phillips Chapter 7: Human Growth And Development - Stewart Brodie and Clare Hancock-Fraser Chapter 8: Communication And ICT - Sheila Slesser and Jenny Blair Chapter 9: Research For Social Work: An Introduction - Rita Philips, Alice Butler-Warke and Gary Spolander Chapter 10: Reflective Practice - Angela Hart Part II: Assessment And Joint Working Chapter 11: Generic Issues In Assessment And Managing Uncertainty - Jillian Brannan Chapter 12: Models Of Assessment - Janine Bolger and Patrick Walker Chapter 13: Risk Assessment - Kirstin Parkes and Mike Shepherd Chapter 14: Interprofessional Practice - Ruth Waugh, Ruth Taylor and Jillian Brannan Chapter 15: Leadership, Management And Teamwork - Gary Spolander, Jillian Brannan, Jill Campbell and Alastair Gibson Chapter 16: The Voice Of People With Lived Experience - Tiegan Boyens, Jillian Brannan, Simon Gardner, Steve Morrison and Isaac Samuels Part III: Models Of Intervention Chapter 17: Relationship-Based Social Work - Tuck-Chee Phung Chapter 18: Crisis Intervention - Angela Hart Chapter 19: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Its Practice And Its Place In Social Work - Tracey Clare with George Allan Chapter 20: Task-Centred Intervention - Dave Humphrey Chapter 21: Working In The Life Space - Jeremy Millar with Janine Bolger Chapter 22: Person-Centered Planning And Personalisation - Neil Gibson Chapter 23: Narrative Approaches - Neil Gibson and Inga Heyman Chapter 24: Motivational Interviewing - Anne Shirran and Colleen Elliott Chapter 25: The Solution-Focused Approach - Steve Smith, Jim Dressel, Jillian Brannan and Alastair Logan Chapter 26: Counselling In Social Work - Michael Sutherland and Fiona Feilberg Chapter 27: Community Practice In Social Work - Linda Harms-Smith and Sarah Buckler Part IV: Practice Contexts And Application Chapter 28: Generic Issues In Practice Contexts - Graeme Simpson Chapter 29: Working With Children And Young People - Sharon Munro, Patrick Walker and Dave Humphrey Chapter 30: Methods Of Intervention In Working With Individuals With Substance Problems - Claire Marsden Chapter 31: Working With Adults: Mental Health - Mike Maas-Lowit Chapter 32: Working With Adults: Justice Social Work - Isobel Townsend Chapter 33: Working With Adults: Disability And Sensory Impairment - Sheila Slesser Chapter 34: Working With Adults: Learning Disability - Fiona Feilberg and Neil Gibson Chapter 35: Social Work Interventions With Older People - Alyson Hill, Iain Fisk and Rory Lynch Chapter 36: Evaluation - Joyce Lishman with Janine Bolger Conclusion - Joyce Lishman
Professor Joyce Lishman is now retired, and was previously Head of the School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK. She was also General Editor of the Research Highlights in Social Work series for many years. Neil Gibson graduated with a BA in Communication and worked in the media, travel and tourism before re-entering education and obtaining an MSc in Social Work. He has worked in residential childcare, substance use, care management, and adult protection before joining the social work teaching team at Robert Gordon University where he currently works. Chris Yuill is a sociologist at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, whose work focuses on the sociology of health and the sociology of urban experiences. In addition to a variety of journal publications and research reports he has written and co-edited a number of textbooks for SAGE, one of his most recent being Sociology for Social Work co-edited with Alastair Gibson. Other texts include Understanding the Sociology of Health: An Introduction with Anne-Marie Barry, which is now in its third edition and has also been translated into Chinese. Chris has also served two terms on the executive of the British Sociological Association.
