Competence in Social Work Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853023329 ISBN 13: 9781853023323

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

Social work training has become competence-based and competence-led as a result of CCETSW's Paper 30 in 1989 (and its subsequent amendments). Many students and practice teachers, however, have experienced difficulty in identifying evidence of competence for inclusion in practice portfolios. The contributors to this practical volume demonstrate how competence is best illustrated through detailed presentation of practice.

Making a major advance in social work training, this book illustrates social work competences by describing genuine cases, real people and real contexts, while all identifying features have been changed to preserve confidentiality. It will greatly assist in the implementation of new requirements for the Diploma in Social Work. Each chapter identifies the core competences most pertinent to the case in question and core themes and principles which emerge in demonstrating competence.

About this title

From the Author

Kieran O'Hagan is Reader in Social Work at The Queen's University, Belfast. He has nearly twenty years of frontline experience of social work practice in England and has lectured in Australia and completed social work placements in California and India. The contributors are all members either of the Department of Social Work at Queen's University or of the statutory and voluntary agencies working in partnership with the University. Recently the subject of scrutiny by the Higher Education Funding Council, the Department of Social Work was acknowledged as a centre of excellence in the provision of social work training.

Review

`...should be a best-seller in the social work training world - It is a must for all DipSW Partnerships, social work tutors, practice teachers and DipSW students working to the new DipSW Requirements.'

Professional Social Work

`[the book] sets out to make `a major advance in social work training' and I do believe it does...This book works - it really does - it gets in, gets on, is relatively waffle-free and suddenly the CCETSW framework looks like the most sensible invention since the washing machine. How does it work? Let me count the ways...Firstly it is very practical. All the chapters use vivid case material and demonstrate, step by step, how student/client interaction, records and supervision provides the stuff from which evidence of competencies can be drawn. Secondly, it is very creative, helping to demonstrate how much material can be generated by the simplest exchange, whether in person or on the telephone...Thirdly, it is very thorough and, on the whole, it does not duck the difficult, but really grapples with some of the knottier problems that evidence hunting can bring. Lastly, it manages to find a voice that speaks to students, practice teachers and tutors alike and renders the horror of turning practice into evidence whilst remaining a sane human being and a reflective practitioner infinitely possible - This material will be invaluable to anyone working with social work students and I can imagine them all sleeping with it under their pillows. Buy it now while stocks last.'

Author: Probation Journal

`This book is highly recommended. It would be a very useful text for all those involved in assessment of students both in social work and allied professions.' Author: Journal of Social Work Practice

`...is likely to be read with relief and gratitude by students and with interest by anyone working in social work education.' Author: Child and Family Social Work

`explores a range of issues relevant to the improvement of practice competence and its evaluation.' Author: Community Care

Edition details

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1853023329
• ISBN 13: 9781853023323
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: O'Hagan Kieran