Essential Skills of Social Work Practice: Assessment, Intervention, and Evaluation - Softcover

O'Hare, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190059605 ISBN 13: 9780190059606

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Essential Skills of Social Work Practice, Third Edition presents the basics of effective social work practice and helps students develop competence in assessment, intervention, and evaluation. Its broad coverage explores the counseling, case management, and research skills necessary to implement evidence-based practice in contemporary social work. Part I of the text includes three chapters that address the core foundations of social work practice: how assessment, intervention and evaluation are linked; the role of theory and research in practice; and a chapter on ethics. Part II, in addition to explaining how to conduct sound assessments and treatment planning, also examines client supportive/engagement skills, cognitive-behavioral skills, and case management skills. Part III focuses on integrating these skills into evidence-based practices with common mental health disorders and problems-in-living with adults, children, and families. Case studies, inspired by real clients, are accompanied by a psychosocial assessment, intervention, and evaluation plan. Appendix B, "The Comprehensive Service Plan," is incorporated throughout the text.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas O'Hare (MSW, PhD, Rutgers University) is associate professor of social work at Boston College. He has published widely on co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problems in young adults and on trauma and substance abuse in people with serious mental illnesses.

Review:

"This is the go-to-book for clinical social work practice. The author is very detailed in providing useful knowledge and resources for students interested in using EBP and clinical social work practices."
--Paul Banahene Adjei, Memorial University

"This text is a great introduction to social work practice! The text opens with foundational social work knowledge, leading to essential social work skills, and ends with the evidenced-based practice and research, thus building and applying strong evidence-based practice for students and
practitioners."
--Natalie Bembry, Rutgers University

"The third edition balances practice theory, skills, and an understanding of diversity and difference in a way that helps the students integrate these things in a single stream. Rather than treating these three things as separate but equal entities, the text brings them together as they are in
social work practice reality, a single complex human experience."
--Brian Masciadrelli, State University of New York at Fredonia

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0190059605
• ISBN 13: 9780190059606
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 472