essential skills of social work

Transforming Social Work Practice: Introducing Social Work (Hardcover)

Everything you need to succeed in your social work degree! Written by subject experts this essential guide will introduce you to all the core areas of your course helping you develop the knowledge and skills you need to practice with confidence. Since... more

Pre-Owned Mental Health in Social Work: A Casebook on Diagnosis and Strengths-Based Assessment (Paperback) 0205482996 9780205482993

Learn essential clinical assessment skills for working in the mental health field using a case-based approach Mental Health in Social Work: A Casebook on Diagnosis and Strengths-Based Assessment emphasizes gaining competency in the DSM-5 diagnoses of... more

Critical Study Skills: Studying for your Social Work Degree (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Essential reading for all those undertaking a social work degree within higher education providing study support skills and strategies to ensure success. more

52 Essential Social Situations by Mind Brain Parenting

WINNER BRAIN CHILD AWARD: Teach interpersonal skills the FUN and PRACTICAL way - understand expectations avoid social blunders manage frustrations & distractions deal with disappointment work in teams handle peer pressure speak up resolve conflicts and... more

Assessment and Intervention in Social Work: Preparing for Practice (Paperback)

Chris Beckett′s new book on assessment and intervention in social work practice covers the core topics for qualifying social work students. This text provides a thorough understanding of the issues and skills essential for effective practice. Each of... more

Student Social Work Integrating Social Work Theory and Practice: A Practical Skills Guide (Paperback)

All social work students study theory and undertake practice placements. Integrating the two - so that each informs the other - is both essential and notoriously tricky. This accessible book demystifies the process and offers helpful evidence-based... more

Studying for Social Work (Paperback)

This essential guide to study skills takes social work students through every step of their degree journey providing them with the academic tools they will need to thrive along the way. Inventively informed by the insights and reflections of qualifying... more

Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfare: More Than Just Common Sense (Paperback)

Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfare has established itself as the essential text to prepare students for the wide-ranging challenges they will face in today s human service sector. This new fourth edition continues the text s core strength of... more

Modern Applications of Social Work Serving the Elderly: Skills for Practice (Paperback)

Broadly speaking there are two kinds of professional practice skills relevant to the burgeoning field of gerontological human service: clinical modalities and macro strategies. This book identifies seven essential approaches to clinical gerontology... more

Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfare: More Than Just Common Sense (Hardcover)

Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfare has established itself as the essential text to prepare students for the wide-ranging challenges they will face in today s human service sector. This new fourth edition continues the text s core strength of... more

Social Work Skills for Community Practice: Applied Macro Social Work (Paperback)

Focuses on skill-building to facilitate positive social change With straightforward content enriched by practical and applicable learning experiences this comprehensive text prepares social work students for careers in community organizing and macro... more

Essential Clinical Social Work: Adult Attachment in Clinical Social Work: Practice Research and Policy (Hardcover)

The applicability of attachment theory and research to social work and social policy relating to infants and children is well-established. Yet its usefulness for enhancing the understanding of adults and their needs both individually and as a group has... more

Essential Clinical Social Work: Integrative Social Work Practice with Refugees Asylum Seekers and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons (Hardcover)

This textbook provides theoretical and clinical knowledge needed by social workers and other practitioners involved in humanitarian emergency response. Social workers are well positioned to serve coordinating and leadership roles in this... more

Sage Study Skills: Your Undergraduate Dissertation in Health and Social Care: The Essential Guide for Success (Paperback)

Your Undergraduate Dissertation in Health and Social Care provides a practical step-by-step guide to both the theoretical and practical aspects of the process of doing an undergraduate dissertation equipping the reader with all the skills necessary to... more

Pre-owned Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication : Building Great Relationships with Faith Skill and Virtue in the Age of Social Media Paperback by Schultze Quentin J.; Badzinski Diane M.

Essential Guide to Interpersonal Communication : Building Great Relationships with Faith Skill and Virtue in the Age of Social Media more

Thinking Through Social Work: Social Work Social Policy and Older People (Paperback)

It is essential for social work students to know about social policy to know why studying social policy is important in the social work degree and to understand how social policy when implemented has a real impact on the everyday life of vulnerable... more

Emotional Intelligence: Practical Steps to Build a Better Life Improve Your Social Skills Get Ahead at Work and Master Your Emotions (Paperback)

Do you feel that you have been stuck in the same place for so long without making progress? Do you feel like your recent decisions have been all over the place? Do you want to do well at work improve your relationships and succeed in school? Do you... more

Direct Social Work Practice : Theory and Skills 9780534368388 Used / Pre-owned

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Skills for Contemporary Social Work: Evidence and Knowledge for Practice (Paperback)

Evidence and knowledge are fundamental in professional practice. A key skill for social workers is understanding how to use the range of sources available. Being able to explain the evidence underpinning decisions and the knowledge base of professional... more

Pre-Owned Fundamentals of Social Intervention : Core Concepts and Skills for Work Practice 9780231036115

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Relationship Skills in Social Work (Paperback)

This book considers the place of relationships in current practice and explores the ways in which social workers can use relationship skills to achieve the best possible outcomes for their clients. The book also offers a unique discussion of the social... more

Social Work Skills and Knowledge: A Practice Handbook (Other)

A leading text in the field of social work skills and methods illustrating how these two are linked with a grounding in theory. more

Pre-Owned Direct Social Work Practice : Theory and Skills 9780534251048

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Social Work Skills Going Local: Working in Communities and Neighbourhoods (Paperback)

Going Local explains how social work students and practitioners can develop approaches to neighbourhood work to engage communities and neighbourhoods more purposefully and to work with citizens and other mainstream and community service providers to... more

Pre-Owned Professional Communication Skills in Social Work (Paperback) 0205524214 9780205524211

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Assessing Conversational Skills in European Social Work Education (Paperback)

This study is about assessing conversational skills at four North-western European schools of Social Work. The goal of the research is to find out what skills are assessed and how this is done. Thereby the researcher studied the way the schools are... more

The Evidence-Based Social Work Skills Book 9780205358625 Used / Pre-owned

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Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge Interactional Coaching: Choice-Focused Learning at Work (Hardcover)

Interactional Coaching is a powerful one-to-one learning approach used successfully for over fifteen years that enables executives to make the choices that work for them. Drawing on existential philosophy psychotherapy and business theory interactional... more

Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge Interactional Coaching: Choice-Focused Learning at Work (Paperback)

Interactional Coaching is a powerful one-to-one learning approach used successfully for over fifteen years that enables executives to make the choices that work for them. Drawing on existential philosophy psychotherapy and business theory interactional... more

Sage Study Skills: Study Skills for Social Workers (Hardcover)

Study Skills for Social Workers offers an accessible insight into the practical use of skills for study in a professional social work context. Engaging with students on their journey through the undergraduate or postgraduate qualifying course it uses... more

Enhancing Social Skills in Rural Adolescents through Skill Streaming (Paperback)

INTRODUCTION India s more than half of abundant human capital lives in villages even today. Development of these villages and its people is essential for the country s development and thus Mahatma Gandhi had always emphasized the role of rural... more

Practical Social Work Social Work Practice and Intellectual Disability: Working to Support Change Book 59 (Paperback)

Read this book to gain an understanding of the knowledge values and skills required for effective practice in the field of intellectual disability and the opportunities which this work offers for multidisciplinary collaboration for social change.... more

Transforming Social Work Practice: Social Work and Spirituality (Paperback)

Social work in modern society requires practitioners to be culturally and spiritually sensitive. This book explores the often challenging relationships between spirituality religion and social work. It considers the skills knowledge and values that are... more

Transforming Social Work Practice: Social Work Assessment (Paperback)

At a time of change and review within social care it is relevant to explore traditional skills knowledge and values associated with assessment in the context of changing practice. This book introduces and explores assessment in social work in a... more

A-Zs in Social Work: An A-Z of Social Work Theory (Paperback)

Puzzled by terminology skills law or theory? Revising for your placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide. Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers this book will... more

Transforming Social Work Practice: Social Work and Mental Health (Paperback)

With 1 in 4 people experiencing a mental health problem in any given year mental health is a more important part of social work training than ever before and all successful social workers need to understand the core values skills and knowledge that... more

Radical Social Work Today : Social Work at the Crossroads (Paperback)

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the seminal text Radical Social Work (1975) this volume has been compiled to explore the radical tradition within social work and assess its legacy relevance and prospects. It is essential reading for undergraduate... more

Radical Social Work Today : Social Work at the Crossroads (Hardcover)

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the seminal text Radical Social Work (1975) this volume has been compiled to explore the radical tradition within social work and assess its legacy relevance and prospects. It is essential reading for undergraduate... more