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

O'Hare, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935871781 ISBN 13: 9781935871781

Publisher: Lyceum Books, 2015

Synopsis

This title is designed to teach social work students the basics of effective psychosocial practice. Its comprehensive coverage includes counseling and case management. In addition, the book stresses informed critical thinking skills that will carry over into students professional work. Essential Skills of Social Work Practice emphasizes the practical application of intervention research, maintaining up-to-date content based on empirical evidence.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lyceum Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935871781
• ISBN 13: 9781935871781
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 468