Social Work Skills, 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by Pamela Trevithick

Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 349
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The bestselling social work classic—updated to include the latest in skills and theories for practitioners at every level Written by an experienced academicpractitioner, the new edition of this bestselling text is updated to include the current educational, policy, and practice contexts of social work. Social Work Skills, Second Edition, contains additional material on social work methods and approaches, as well as revised sections on the importance of psychological and sociological theories. It also provides expanded and more thorough information on multi-disciplinary working and communication with children and examines the use of language and jargon in social work—ensuring more productive and smooth interactions between social workers and their clients and colleagues. The main focus of the book is on how skills can be perfected and made transferable across different contexts, service user groups, and countries. The handbook is essential reading for all social work students and a valuable reference tool for practicing social workers and human service professionals.

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