Summary
Contents
Subject index
This very practical book will support students to meet the requirements of the compulsory Readiness for Direct Practice assessment. Useful for social work students and lecturers alike, it takes each of the 9 domains that students are tested on, breaks them down step-by step and provides a range of interactive activities that enable them to acquire the knowledge, values and skills for practice required at this level. It offers students a foundation to the key areas of knowledge for each of the 9 domains, while also signposting them to other popular books in the Transforming Social Work Practice series for a more detailed discussion as well.
Professionalism
Professionalism
Achieving a Social Work Degree
This chapter will help you develop skills in the following domain of the Professional Capabilities Framework:
Professionalism: Identify and behave as a professional social worker committed to professional development.
The Professional Capability Framework states about this domain that:
Social workers are members of an internationally recognised profession, a title protected in UK law. Social workers demonstrate professional commitment by taking responsibility for their conduct, practice and learning, with support through supervision. As representatives of the social work profession they safeguard its reputation and are accountable to the professional regulator. (BASW, Professional Capability Framework – Readiness for Practice Capabilities)
This domain statement goes on to say that, at the point of going out on their first practice placement, social work students need to be ...
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