| Description |
xiv, 195 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Skills for contemporary social work |
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Skills for contemporary social work.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: Setting Up Assessments -- Recording Information -- Making Sense of Information: Using Formal Assessment Tools -- Working with Other Professionals -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- ch. 6 Skills for Court Work -- Working with Legal Advice -- Preparing Reports for Court -- Negotiating with Other Parties to the Proceedings -- Giving Oral Evidence -- Managing Relationships with Service Users during and after Proceedings -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- ch. 7 Skills for Promoting Change -- Motivation to Change -- Negotiating over Interventions -- Thinking Systemically -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- ch. 8 Ending, Evaluating and Reflective Practice -- Skills for Managing Endings -- Skills for Evaluation -- Skills for Reflective Practice -- Conclusion -- Further Reading |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Context -- ch. 1 Legal and Organisational Context -- The Legal Context -- The Organisational Context -- Pressures on Organisations with Statutory Functions -- Further Reading -- Answers to Exercise 1.1 -- ch. 2 Aims and Ethics -- The Aims of Social Work -- Social Work Values -- The Goals and Values of Social Work in Statutory Contexts -- Anti-Oppressive Practice -- Anti-Oppressive Practice in Statutory Contexts -- The Influence of Postmodernism -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- pt. II Skills -- ch. 3 Skills for Working in Organisations -- Skills for Making Use of Supervision -- Skills for Using Procedures -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- ch. 4 Skills for Engaging with People -- Skills for Establishing the Mandate for the Work -- Respecting Human Rights -- Building Partnerships -- Communicating with Children -- Dealing with Violence, Threats and Intimidation -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- ch. 5 Skills for Assessing and Planning -- |
| Summary |
Doing social work in a statutory setting is a challenge that all social workers will face. Social workers are required to work with people who don't necessarily want their help and who may be antagonistic or even hostile. In such cases, social workers must use their statutory powers with confidence and work effectively within the constraints of procedure and the law. -- |
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This book is relevant to all social work settings including mental health, community care, youth justice and child protection. It will be essential reading for social work students and newly qualified social workers who are facing up to the realities of social work in statutory settings for the first time. --Book Jacket |
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This thoughtful and practical book focuses on the universal skills that are needed to do this important kind of social work, and to do it well. Drawing on social work's diverse knowledge base through extensive examples and case studies, Andrew Hill illustrates key skills in practice, such as responding to threats of violence and aggression, giving evidence in court, report writing, and coping with emotional issues. As well as promoting practical skills, the book underlines the importance of working as a reflective practitioner. It carefully outlines a framework for understanding the place of statutory work and how this may be consistent with empowerment and anti-oppressive practice, and with the straightforward desire to help others that brings people into social work in the first place. -- |
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S̀tudents will find this book highly accessible. Hill writes in a clear style and the use of case studies is excellent. I can certainly envisage this book being used widely---Geraldine Macdonald, Queen's University, Bellast -- |
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T̀his is an excellent book and should be compulsory reading for social work students. It is clearly written, sensitively related to social work practice, with some first-rate examples; above all, it really "speaks" to the realities of contemporary statutory professional practice in the twenty-first century. Andrew Hill has written a thorough but readable text for students which they will find useful at any stage in their qualification degree.---David Shemmings, University of Kent -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social case work -- Great Britain.
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Social case work.
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Social service -- Practice -- Great Britain.
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Social service -- Practice.
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Social workers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain.
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| LC no. |
2010484333 |
| ISBN |
0745642691 (hbk.) |
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0745642705 (paperback) |
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9780745642697 (hbk.) |
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9780745642703 (paperback) |
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