Introduction to Social Work Practice: A Practical Workbook - Softcover

Knapp, Herschel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412956544 ISBN 13: 9781412956543

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2008

Synopsis

Introduction to Social Work Practice orients the students to the role of the professional social worker. The first chapter delineates the differences between being a good friend and being a good clinician in terms of social/emotional factors, professionalism, and self-disclosure. The second chapter covers techniques for building a trusting working environment that is conducive to processing sensitive issues along with an overview of key therapeutic communication skills. The remaining five chapters detail an easy-to-remember five-step problem-solving model to guide the clinical process: 1. Assessment, 2. Goal, 3. Objectives, 4. Activation, 5. Termination.

Key features include:

- role-play exercises

- brief essay and response questions to build and test key communication skills

- discussion points

- glossary of terms

- diagrams and charts that graphically represent the flow of the helping process.

The workbook presumes no prior clinical experience and uses no technical psychological jargon. It teaches fundamental communication skills while emphasizing key social work values, ethics, and issues of multicultural populations and diversity throughout.

About this title

About the Author:

Herschel Knapp, Ph.D., M.S.S.W. is a mental health clinician and health science researcher in Los Angeles, California. His experience includes acute care in hospital settings (ER, ICU, CCU, oncology) as well as longer-term psychotherapy in both in- and out-patient settings with a diverse client population. He has served as a behavioral science representative, advocating for quality of care on Patient Care Committee, Palliative Care Committee, Ethics Committee, and Cancer Committee. He has taught at the university level, provided intern supervision, and presented numerous clinical trainings in hospitals and in the community.

Dr. Knapp is currently involved in biobehavioral research directed at improving healthcare services to cancer patients and enhancing access to HIV testing.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1412956544
• ISBN 13: 9781412956543
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302