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What is the role of social work? What does it mean to be a social worker? What are the changes affecting social work training? Introduction to Social Work addresses these questions and provides an understanding of the knowledge, values, and skills requirements of professional social work. The author has played a key role in constructing the subject benchmarks for the social work degree and offers a reflective and thoughtful commentary upon training, education and practice. Written in a lively and readable style, the book captures the essence of the changes sweeping through social work and engages the reader in these debates. Key features of this book include: - Comprehensive content structured around the guidelines for training and practice - Bridges the gap between theory and real-life practice - Student-friendly features such as case-studies, discussion questions, further reading and a glossary This exciting publication will be a core textbook for trainee social workers as they progress through the qualifying social work degree, or as they begin their practice as newly qualified workers seeking to consolidate their learning. `The unique aspect of this book which distinguishes it from other competitors is that it is constructed explicitly around the key roles and benchmark statements...this book will offer something new and interesting to the growing field of social work education literature and is likely to be relevant to both students and practitioners in the UK and elsewhere' - Dr Caroline Skehill, Queens University Belfast
PQ Functions
Part Three (Chapters 10–13) considers functions that traverse all the specialisms: inter-professional learning and multi-professional practice; research and reflective practice; enabling the learning of others; and leadership and management skills.
All four UK countries emphasise inter-professional education and enhancing skills for multi-professional practice (CCW, 2005; GSCC, 2005a; NIPQETP, 2005: 20; SSSC, 2004: 5). Practising in multi-professional teams may lead some social workers to fear that social work's distinctiveness is being watered down. Payne (2006) attributes their fears to trends towards more fragmented interprofessional service delivery arrangements, but argues that fragmentation provides opportunities for social workers to develop wider varieties of specialist practice.
The service user group and carer group that the editor visited to consult about the book emphasised how they valued multi-professional services. ...
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