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All Social Work students are required to undertake specific learning and assessment in partnership working and information sharing across professional disciplines and agencies. Increasingly, social workers are also finding that they need to deal with a wide range of other professions as part of their daily work. It is essential therefore that social workers can work effectively and collaboratively with these professions while retaining their own values and identity. This updated second edition will prepare social work students to work with a wide variety of professions including youth workers, the police, teachers and educators, the legal profession and health professionals.
The Justice Context
The Justice Context
Achieving a Social Work Degree
This chapter will help you to develop the following capabilities, to the appropriate level, from the Professional Capabilities Framework.
- Contexts and organisations. Understand the inter-agency, multi-disciplinary and interprofessional dimensions to practice and demonstrate effective partnership working.
- Professionalism. Identify and behave as a professional social worker committed to professional development.
- Values and ethics. Apply social work ethical principles and values to guide professional practice.
- Diversity. Recognise diversity and apply anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive principles in practice.
- Rights, justice and economic well-being. Advance human rights and promote social justice and economic well-being.
- Knowledge. Apply knowledge of social sciences, law and social work practice theory.
- Judgement. Use judgement and authority to intervene with individuals, families and communities to promote independence, provide support and prevent ...
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