Continuing Professional Development in Social Work (Post-Qualifying Social Work Leadership and Management Handbooks) - Softcover

Rutter, Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1446266575 ISBN 13: 9781446266571

Publisher: Learning Matters, 2012

Synopsis

There has been a recent focus on how practitioners can engage with continuing professional learning and development. This book is written to support and help busy social workers in front line practice, as well as those in leadership and management roles, to achieve the key aims of continuing professional development (CPD) in a post-qualifying social work context.

There are sections on how to engage with CPD at an appropriate level, understanding complex thinking and practices and developing professional reasoning and judgement that can be appropriately recognised and evaluated.

About this title

About the Author

Lynne specialises in professional educational development within post-qualifying (PQ) and continuing professional development (CPD) programmes at the National Centre for Post Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice at Bournemouth University. Here she has helped design and develop a number of units for both health and social care markets. She facilitates learning about critical thinking, professional reasoning and judgement, evidencing professional learning, leading and enabling others, and service improvement methodology. Lynne’s professional and research interests focus on the nature and development of professional reasoning and judgement, and her Professional Doctorate has helped create a unique set of assessment criteria for their development and evaluation within academic written work.

From the Back Cover

Focuses on how practitioners can engage with continuing professional learning and development. This book is written to support and help busy social workers in front line practice, as well as those in leadership and management roles, to achieve the key aims of continuing professional development (CPD) in a post-qualifying social work context.

Edition details

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1446266575
• ISBN 13: 9781446266571
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112