Summary
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Social Work students need to be critical, analytical and evaluative in their thinking, reading and writing when undertaking the challenge of a degree course. And while lecturers may highlight this need when marking assignments, there is limited space to explore these topics within an already tight social work curriculum. This revised second edition will help students develop these essential skills by linking activities and reflection points to practice and social work theory. There are full links to the Professional Capabilities Framework throughout and this revised edition features a new chapter on developing emotional intelligence. This new chapter makes the book particularly useful for students about to go on placement.
Developing critical questions
Developing critical questions
Achieving a Social Work Degree
This chapter will help you to develop the following capabilities, to the appropriate level, from the Professional Capabilities Framework:
- Professionalism
Demonstrate ability to learn, using a range of approaches.
- Critical reflection and analysis
Understand the need to construct hypotheses in social work practice.
It will also introduce you to the following standards as set out in the 2008 social work subject benchmark statement:
4.7 The expectation that social workers will be able to act effectively in such complex circumstances requires that honours degree programmes in social work should be designed to help students learn to become accountable, reflective, critical and evaluative.
5.2 Subject-specific skills and other skills.
6.2 Awareness raising, skills and knowledge acquisition.
Introduction
This first chapter will introduce you to some of the ...
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