Theory and Practice: A Straightforward Guide for Social Work Students - Softcover

Maclean, Siobhan; Harrison, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903575737 ISBN 13: 9781903575734

Publisher: Kirwin Maclean Associates Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

This reference guide is designed to address the anxieties that many social work students have about social work theory and how it relates to practice. It aims to provide clear, straightforward explanations of the major theories. The book is divided into five main sections. The first covers social work theory and practice learning. The second looks at basic concepts including: values, power, empowerment, oppression and anti-oppressive practice, equality and diversity. In the third section (C) the authors discuss models for understanding people’s situations: the PCS model, social and medical models, the recovery model, social constructionism, social role valorisation, discourse analysis, feminist perspectives, and black perspectives. Section four (D) covers human development, grief and loss, attachment, identity, learning theory, attribution theory, and the trans-theoretical model of change. In section five (E) the authors look at models of assessment, concepts of need, strengths and resilience, risk assessment. Counselling theories, CBT, REBT, BSFT, psychodynamics, transactional analysis, the drama triangle, narrative approach, and behaviourist theory are considered in section F. The last part, G, covers group work, advocacy, community work, systems theory, family group conferencing, crisis intervention, task centred practice, and social pedagogy. Chapters contain questions and exercises to help students explore how each theory can be related to practice learning experiences as well as tips and ideas from other students about how they learnt to make links between theory and practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kirwin Maclean Associates Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903575737
• ISBN 13: 9781903575734
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 278