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"The second edition is very welcome and represents and extremely useful addition to theory/models texts. Pam brings a very lively style of debate to these issues and, extremely importantly, adds a critical edge which is what students require within the realm of contemporary practice."
Professor Jonathan Parker, Head of Department of Social Work, University of Hull.
Professor Jonathan Parker, Head of Department of Social Work, University of Hull.
- What skills do social workers need to become effective practitioners?
- How can these skills be perfected and made transferable across different service user and carer groups, contexts, and countries?
- How can these skills be used to enhance multi-agency co-operation and collaboration?
In particular, this edition contains new material on:
- Social work methods, practice approaches and perspectives
- The knowledge base of social work and the importance of the relationship between theory and practice
- How the terms skill and intervention are defined and effectively applied in practice
Social Work Skills is essential reading for all social work students and a valuable reference text for practising social workers and human service professionals.
About the Author
Pamela Trevithick started in social work in 1972 and trained in 1980. Since then she has practised in Birmingham, London and Bristol as a residential social worker, education welfare officer, statutory social worker, groupworker and team manager. She is Senior Lecturer (half-time) in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, and a groupwork practitioner, trainer and consultant. She is the co-editor of the journal Groupwork, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Social Work Practice.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Social work has changed a great deal in recent years (Cree 2002). Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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