Social Work Theory in Practice by Philip Heslop (English) Hardcover Book

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A step-by-step guide to the underpinning theoretical knowledge in social work helping your students to confidently apply theory in practice.  

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A step-by-step guide to the underpinning theoretical knowledge in social work helping your students to confidently apply theory in practice. - Exercises will help them get to grips with the essentials and reflect on learning. - Case studies from eight fictional social workers located in a busy local authority office will allow them to explore a range of different practice experience, theoretical perspectives and approaches to understanding situations and identifying possible courses of action. - The authors' own experiences will show the importance of reflection, supervision and continual learning to help them prepare for the reality of practice.

Author Biography

I have been a social worker since 1992 and chose social work as a profession to challenge inequality and discrimination. I have worked mainly in childcare social work, and from 1995, specifically in fostering and adoption. I have worked in statutory, voluntary and independent social work and have worked in all four countries of the UK. I developed a specialism working with male carers, as well as caring for children on the autism spectrum. Having held a wide range of practice, training, reviewing and management roles, I am also a passionate educator. I am qualified to teach adults and children, have been an NVQ assessor and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I completed a PhD on foster fathers through Durham University, and joined Northumbria University's teaching team in 2013. I teach across all social work programmes, focusing particularly on social work assessments and interventions. I supervise PhD students, and I currently am principal investigator on an evaluation of simulation-based learning in social work programmes.  I qualified as a social worker in 2001, and went on to practice in a variety of mental health settings. I became an Approved Social Worker (ASW) and later an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). I developed a specialism in working with people diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorder and self-harming and suicidal behaviours. I qualified as a Best Interests Assessor (BIA), and went on to become a local authority Mental Capacity Act lead.  From 2013 until its closure, I was a College of Social Work's accredited Expert Safeguarding Adults Practitioner. I left practice in 2013, to teach and research at Northumbria University. I teach across all qualifying and post qualifying social work programmes, focussing particularly on social work with adults, mental capacity, adult safeguarding and mental health. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and I am currently completing a PhD, which explores how adult safeguarding is performed with people experiencing dementia.    

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I Theory: explaining the world and understanding our practiceChapter 1: Understanding theory in practiceChapter 2: Foundations of theory in social workChapter 3: Economics, politics and the organisational delivery of social workChapter 4: Critical and radical theoriesChapter 5: Theories of human developmentChapter 6: Theories of systems and relationshipsChapter 7: Theories of risk and vulnerabilityPart II: Practice: using theory in our work with peopleChapter 8: Applying theories in practiceChapter 9: Children and their familiesChapter 10: Foster and Kinship CareChapter 11: OffendersChapter 12: Physical DisabilityChapter 13: Mental DistressChapter 14: Learning Disabilities and AutismChapter 15: Older People

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Details ISBN1526492377 Author Cathryn Meredith Year 2020 ISBN-10 1526492377 ISBN-13 9781526492371 Format Hardcover Pages 232 Publication Date 2020-11-24 Language English DEWEY 361.301 UK Release Date 2020-11-24 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2020-11-24 Edited by Bianca Raabe Birth 1955 Affiliation Reader in Public and Private International Law, University College London Position Reader in Public and Private International Law Qualifications MD Alternative 9781526492364 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Imprint Sage Publications Ltd AU Release Date 2020-11-23 We've got this

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