Modern Social Work Practice: Teaching And Learning In Practice Settings

Doel, Mark; Shardlow, Steven

ISBN 10: 0754641201 / ISBN 13: 9780754641209

Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005

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Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 302 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern Social Work Practice: Teaching And Learning In Practice Settings
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754641201
• ISBN 13: 9780754641209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Gut

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Synopsis

Modern Social Work Practice is a substantially new text which builds upon the success and style of Social Work Practice (1993) and The New Social Work Practice (1998). Mark Doel and Steven M. Shardlow have reshaped the book to take account of the National Occupational Standards for Social Work, aiming to provide a creative, practical and up-to-date learning resource in line with new practices. This is an interactive book designed to provide readers with an opportunity to engage with key aspects of modern social work practice, while also providing an excellent digest of the most important literature. Each chapter is introduced with an activity or exercise, designed to aid student learning in discrete aspects of practice and building to a complete curriculum for practice learning. Modern Social Work Practice includes much new or extended coverage of topics including: Service users' involvement in teaching and learning Managing challenging behaviour Working with groups and teams Accountability and confidentiality Whistleblowing Working with risk This book will be an invaluable textbook for students of social work in all three years of the new degree. It will also be of interest to practising social workers, especially those engaged in training, teaching and assessing students.

About the Author

Mark Doel is Research Professor of Social Work in the Centre for Health and Social Care Research at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He was a social worker for almost twenty years and has worked for two years in the United States. He held a joint appointment for ten years as a social worker and a lecture in social work at University of Sheffield. Professor Steven M. Shardlow is a Professor at the Salford Centre for Social Work Research, University of Salford, UK, and also in the Bodo University College, Norway. He joined the School of Community Health Sciences and Social Care in 2001, and was appointed foundation holder of the newly established Chair of Social Work. Previously he has directed a university post-graduate social work programme; managed a multi-disciplinary health and social care practice team in a local authority; and practised field and residential social work.