Advancing Core Competencies: Emphasizing Practice Behaviors and Outcomes - Softcover

Nichols, Quienton P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205202284 ISBN 13: 9780205202287

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

A CSWE Core Competency / Practice Behavior Workbook for Advanced Courses

 

Nichols’ Advancing Core Competencies: Emphasizing Practice Behaviors and Outcomes helps students master the competencies and practice behaviors with licensing-type exam questions that apply to specialized fields.

 

This workbook builds upon students’ prior knowledge gained from previous social work courses and presents an overview of generalist practice and principles related to the core competencies. It provides a detailed understanding and explanation of the each EPAS standard and is followed by questions that test students’ (1) Understanding of Knowledge and (2) Mastery and Assessment of Knowledge of Skills.

 

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, students should be able to:

• Master each Core Competency before advancing to more difficult content and practice behaviors
• Apply the Core Competencies to realistic case scenarios
• Assess their understanding with the types of questions that they will find on their licensing exam
• Identify areas where more study is needed

 

About this title

About the Author

Quienton Nichols, PhD is currently Assistant Professor of Social Work in the Department of Social Work and Human Services at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia a suburb of Atlanta Georgia.  He received his MSW from the University of Georgia in 1990 and PhD in Social Work Policy, Administration and Social Science Clark Atlanta University in 2007.  While at KSU, Dr. Nichols has had administrative appointments as the Director of the Child Welfare Scholars Program and Director of MSW Field Education and is currently specializes in Policy development and race relations as a commissioner on the President’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Dialogue (CORED). He was invited internationally to participate in the Oxford Round Table’s Annual Spring 2011 Session inOxford, England on Nationality, Religion and Immigration.

He has published on child welfare retention and is also the author of Connecting Core Competencies:   A Workbook for Social Work Students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205202284
• ISBN 13: 9780205202287
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192