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Everything you need to succeed in your social work degree! Written by subject experts, this essential guide will introduce you to all the core areas of your course, helping you develop the knowledge and skills you need to practice with confidence.  

Since launching in 2003, Transforming Social Work Practice has become the market-leading series for social work students. These books use activities and case studies to build critical thinking and reflection skills and will help social work students to develop good practice through learning. These books are:

· Affordable                                               
· Written to the Professional Capabilities Framework
· Mapped to the social work curriculum           
· Practical with clear links between theory and practice


Table of Contents:
PART I: SOCIAL WORK THEORY AND METHODS Chapter 1: The history and context of contemporary social work (including global social work) - Jo Finch & Jonathan Parker Chapter 2: Social work values and ethics - Steven Shardlow Chapter 3: Theories and methods of social work practice - Barbra Teater and Katrina Hannan Chapter 4: Social work and the law - Robert Johns Chapter 5: Human growth and development in social work - Janet Walker Chapter 6: The social work process: assessment, planning, intervention and review - Jonathan Parker PART II: SOCIAL WORK SKILLS Chapter 7: Anti-oppressive practice skills - Prospera Tedam Chapter 8: Writing skills for social workers - Lucy Rai Chapter 9: Critical thinking and reflective practice - Joanna Rawles Chapter 10: Communication and interpersonal skills - Juliet Koprowska Chapter 11: Courtroom skills for social workers - Allan Norman Chapter 12: Group work skills - Timothy B. Kelly and Toby Berman-Rossi Chapter 13: Leadership and management skills in social work - Trish Hafford-Letchfield Chapter 14: Using research in social work - Brian J. Taylor Chapter 15: Looking after yourself as a social worker - Jo Finch Chapter 16: Creative skills for social workers - Jonathan Parker PART III: SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTIONS IN PRACTICE Chapter 17: Social work and safeguarding children - Nancy Kelly Chapter 18: Social work with children and young people in need - Melanie Watts & Nick Frost Chapter 19: Working with unaccompanied refugee minors - Deborah Hadwin, Helen Guizani & Gurnam Singh Chapter 20: Social work and youth justice - Roger Smith & Sean Creaney Chapter 21: Social work and mental health (children, young people and adults) - Toby Brandon, Carole Southall and Steve O′Driscoll Chapter 22: Social work and disability (children, young people and adults) - Sally Lee Chapter 23: Social work and learning disability/difficulties (children, young people and adults) - Emma Evans & Sally Lee Chapter 24: Social work, fostering and adoption (working with children and adults) - Lucille Allain & Siobhan O′Farrell-Pearce Chapter 25: Social work with asylum seekers and refugees - Kim Robinson Chapter 26: Social work and substance use - Orlanda Harvey Chapter 27: Social work with older people - Ann Anka Chapter 28: Social work at the end of life: death, dying, bereavement and loss - Sue Taplin and Denise Turner Chapter 29: Working with communities - Keith Popple

About the Author :
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Parker of the Health Sciences University, UK, is Professor Emeritus at Bournemouth University, Professor Emeritus at the University of Stavanger, Norway, Visiting Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Doctoral programme team member at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He was one of the founders and director of the Family Assessment and Support Unit, a placement agency attached to the University of Hull and Head of the Department of Social Work.  He was Chair of the Association of Teachers in Social Work Education until 2005, Vice Chair of the UK higher education representative body, the Joint University Council for Social Work Education from 2005- 2010, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has published widely (over 200 scholarly papers and chapters and 43 books): on disadvantage, marginalisation and violence, Southeast Asia, social work and welfare education internationally. He is author of the best-selling book Social Work Practice (Sage, 2025) and series editor for the highly successful Transforming Social Work Practice series (Sage).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781529614183
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Learning Matters Ltd
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 152961418X
  • Publisher Date: 05 Apr 2023
  • Binding: Digital download and online
  • Series Title: Transforming Social Work Practice Series


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