Competence in Social Work Practice: A Practical Guide for Students and Professionals

✍ Scribed by Kieran O'Hagan

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Pub
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the publication of the first edition of this classic text, the major reforms in social work education resulted in the National Occupational Standards Framework (NOSF), which requires all social workers to demonstrate competence in a number of key areas. This practical text book covers all areas of the NOSF including social work ethics, residential care practice, child protection, risk analysis and protecting adults with learning difficulties. Numerous case studies effectively convey competent practice in social work practice, and relate core areas of competence explicitly to the relevant section of the framework. Professionals and students involved in social work training, as well as new practitioners will value this book as an indispensable resource.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER
......Page 1
Title Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
......Page 9
PREFACE
......Page 11
1.
Competence: An Enduring
Concept?......Page 13
2.
Competence in Mediation
Practice......Page 33
3.
Competence in Residential
Child Care......Page 55
4.
Competence in Social Work
Ethics......Page 77
5.
Competence in Child Abuse
Referral-taking: Coping with
Discriminatory or Malicious
Referrals......Page 96
6.
Competence in Protecting
Adults with Learning
Disabilities......Page 121
7.
Competence in Criminal Justice......Page 137
8.
Competence in Risk Analysis......Page 154
9.
Competence in Health Care......Page 174
10.
Competence in Working
with Families......Page 193
11.
Competence in Mental Health
Social Work......Page 216
12.
Competence under Child-care
Legislation, Policy and Theory......Page 234
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
......Page 251
SUBJECT INDEX
......Page 253
AUTHOR INDEX
......Page 258