Essential Skills of Social Work Practice: Assessment, Intervention, and Evaluation - Softcover

O'Hare, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190656700 ISBN 13: 9780190656706

Publisher: OUP USA, 2015

Synopsis

Essential Skills of Social Work Practice presents the basics of effective social work practice and helps students develop competence in assessment, intervention, and evaluation. Its broad coverage explores the counseling, case management, and research skills necessary to implement evidence-based practice in contemporary social work. A stand-out feature of this book is the innovative use of its appendices-particularly the comprehensive service plan that is incorporated throughout the text. The book incorporates a number of extensive case example with a step-by-step treatment plan illustrating the application of knowledge and skills discussed within the case situation.

Professor O'Hare has been a leader in the field of evidence-based practice and uses his experience to craft this second edition of Essential Skills. The book is DSM-5 ready, and illustrates the importance of using research to inform practice, while also using practice experiences to contribute to the development of evidence-based resources. This is the book that will serve as a foundational practice text for students that also functions as a bridge to learning advanced social work practices.

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Review

This comprehensive and ambitious text successfully provides an accessible, thorough, and thoughtful treatment of the essential skills necessary for social work practice.... It answers fundamental questions often posed in social work education-''Why is this important?'' and ''How can I use this knowledge in practice?

Essential Skills of Social Work Practice is a well-written, vital, and clinically relevant resource for social work students and practitioners alike. It occupies an important place in infusing evidence-based practice throughout the helping process and across a variety of social work roles and settings. (Best Practices in Mental Health)

This book is a thorough and well-sequenced learning tool for socila work students learning practic theory and appliation and a review tool for established practitioners. The text continues to fill a major need for a solid but succinct overview of social work practice skills. (Social Development Issues)

...[this book] provides a complete resource of foundation or core social work practice skills. Practice assessment, intervention, and evaluation skills are comprehensively covered through case studies that emphasize ultilization of sound evidence-informed practice and research-driven knowledge to recognize and deliver best practices. (Social Development Issues)

Essential Skills of Social Work Practice provides a complete resource of foundation or core social work practice skills.... This book is a thorough and well-sequenced learning tool for social work students learning practice theory and application and a review tool for established practitioners. This text continues to fill a major need for a solid but succinct overview of social work practice skills." (Social Development Issues)

About the Author

Thomas O'Hare (MSW, PhD, Rutgers University) is associate professor of social work at Boston College. He has been a clinical social worker in both the public and private sectors and has worked as a quality assurance and research/evaluation consultant for several mental health agencies. He has published widely on co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problems in young adults and on trauma and substance abuse in people with serious mental illnesses. He has also developed and published scales for social work assessment and measurement of practice skills.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0190656700
• ISBN 13: 9780190656706
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 450