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This lively and engaging book is an adaptation of the bestselling introductory social work book available in Australia. This edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect wider changes that have characterized social work training and practice in recent years. It offers readers an essential grounding in the knowledge, values, and skills needed for successful completion of their degree.
Key Features:
Comprehensive content - includes discussion of theoretical perspectives, policy; assessment; intervention, the ethics and values framework; and practice-learning.; A student-friendly approach - includes case-studies, chapter summaries, further reading sections, and discussion questions.; A multi-professional perspective - recognises the experiences of all those working across the field of social care and incorporates service-user's voices.; Practice-oriented - offers specific guidance to overcome challenges and provides an effective framework for practice.
This authoritative textbook will be an essential guide to the challenges and concepts underpinning social work practice. It offers a flavor of what social work entails and engages with recent debates about the nature of practice. It will be an invaluable text for social work trainees, and will also be useful reading for post-qualifying students and practitioners.
Assessment
Assessment
In this chapter we examine:
- What assessment is and how it relates to intervention;
- A systematic approach to assessment located within our practice framework;
- The process and stages of a systematic assessment;
- An example of an assessment with children and families;
- Issues for social workers in conducting assessments;
- Community profiles and network analysis as assessment activities.
Social workers engage with individuals, groups and communities who experience difficulties in their lives and tensions with their social arrangements. In our practice framework we argue that the focus of social work practice should be understanding these tensions, while its purpose should be assisting people to resolve the tensions by helping them to take more control of their lives and by promoting equitable relationships. Thus far we have examined the social welfare context of social ...
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