Social Work Practice: Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review (Transforming Social Work Practice Series) - Softcover

Parker, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473989310 ISBN 13: 9781473989313

Publisher: Learning Matters, 2017

Synopsis

This bestselling book will take you step-by-step through the four main aspects of social work practice - Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review - giving you a complete foundation in each. It will introduce you to each process in a clear and accessible way, supporting you to both reflect on and apply what you have learnt in practice across settings and service user groups. The book will provide you with a theoretical foundation from which you can explore other aspects of social work.

 
New to the fifth edition:

• an ‘ethnographic approach’ to social work
• focus on relationship and resilience
• revised exploration of the political context of social work
• updated emphasis on social justice and human rights.

About this title

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Parker of the Health Sciences University, UK, is Professor Emeritus at Bournemouth University, Professor Emeritus at the University of Stavanger, Norway, Visiting Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Doctoral programme team member at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He was one of the founders and director of the Family Assessment and Support Unit, a placement agency attached to the University of Hull and Head of the Department of Social Work.  He was Chair of the Association of Teachers in Social Work Education until 2005, Vice Chair of the UK higher education representative body, the Joint University Council for Social Work Education from 2005- 2010, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has published widely (over 200 scholarly papers and chapters and 43 books): on disadvantage, marginalisation and violence, Southeast Asia, social work and welfare education internationally. He is author of the best-selling book Social Work Practice (Sage, 2025) and series editor for the highly successful Transforming Social Work Practice series (Sage).

Edition details

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473989310
• ISBN 13: 9781473989313
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 272