This comprehensive and ambitious text successfully provides an accessible, thorough, and thoughtful treatment of the essential skills necessary for social work practice.... It answers fundamental questions often posed in social work education-''Why is this important?'' and ''How can I use this knowledge in practice?
----Research on Social Work Practice
Essential Skills of Social Work Practice is a well-written, vital, and clinically relevant resource for social work students and practitioners alike. It occupies an important place in infusing evidence-based practice throughout the helping process and across a variety of social work roles and settings.
--Best Practices in Mental Health
This book is a thorough and well-sequenced learning tool for socila work students learning practic theory and appliation and a review tool for established practitioners. The text continues to fill a major need for a solid but succinct overview of social work practice skills.
--Social Development Issues
...[this book] provides a complete resource of foundation or core social work practice skills. Practice assessment, intervention, and evaluation skills are comprehensively covered through case studies that emphasize ultilization of sound evidence-informed practice and research-driven knowledge to recognize and deliver best practices.
--Social Development Issues
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Essential Skills of Social Work Practice provides a complete resource of foundation or core social work practice skills.... This book is a thorough and well-sequenced learning tool for social work students learning practice theory and application and a review tool for established practitioners. This text continues to fill a major need for a solid but succinct overview of social work practice skills."
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Social Development Issues