Post-Qualifying Child Care Social Work: Developing Reflective Practice

✍ Scribed by Dr Gillian Ruch

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 179
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook provides an overview of the Post Qualifying Child Care Award in social work. Written in response to recent policy and training guidelines, it provides the underpinning knowledge for candidates following the Post Qualifying curriculum. It helps child care social workers acquire and develop the breadth of knowledge and understanding that characterise best practice.  

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Part One - The contemporary framework of post-qualification child care practice......Page 10
1 Introduction – developing holistic social work practitioners......Page 12
2 The PQ framework, PQ and CPD developments: consolidation unit......Page 17
3 Reflective practice and reflective spaces......Page 28
4 Observational practices in working with children and families......Page 40
5 Every Child Matters and the context for inter-professional and inter-agency practice......Page 50
6 Practice education and ‘enabling others’......Page 58
Part Two - The post-qualification curriculum......Page 68
7 Focus on the child......Page 70
8 Child observation and professional practice......Page 88
9 ‘Holding the child in mind’: working in partnership with children, their families, carers and professionals......Page 105
10 Innovatory and regulatory practice in contemporary childcare social work......Page 122
11 Collaborative practice and its complexity......Page 141
Part Three - Continuing professional development and future directions......Page 158
12 The way ahead: reflective practice and relationships......Page 160
Bibliography......Page 163
Index......Page 174