Post-qualifying social work practice / [edited by] Patricia Higham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Higham, P. E., 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service.

Physical Description:

x, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2009.

Summary:

This core textbook provides an authoritative overview of the post-qualifying awards in social work. Written in response to recent policy and training guidelines, the book will enhance social workers' post-qualifying knowledge, skills and values within specialist areas of practice.

The book will: use critical self-appraisal to construct different ways of thinking about and doing social work, encourage reflection on their practice, enable social workers to build confidence in their professional identity, move from competence to increased capability and to expertise, help social workers to explore values dilemmas, increase social workers' knowledge for practice, promote learning and career development.

This book examines core assumptions about post-qualifying practice - that values and relationships (including partnerships with service users) are essential to good practice, that social workers will work in diverse organisational structures and that social workers in the United Kingdom should become aware of European models of social work.

Contents:

Introduction: What is post-qualifying social work practice? / Patricia Higham 1

Part 1 Essential elements for PQ practice / Patricia Higham 5

1 Continuing professional development and PQ social work frameworks: flagships for social work reform or sinking ships? / Patricia Higham 7

2 Consolidating values in PQ practice / Kish Bhatti-Sinclair 22

3 Partnerships with people who use services and carers / Patricia Higham, Claire Torkington 34

Part 2 Specialist practice / Patricia Higham 47

4 Children, young people, their families and carers / Celia Doyle, Susan Kennedy 49

5 PQ social work practice in mental health / Ric Bowl 63

6 Social work and older people: a view from over Offa's Dyke / Aled Wyn Griffiths, Joanna Griffiths, Averil Jarrett 76

7 Engaging with the social model of disability / Bob Sapey 89

8 Learning disability / Kathy Boxall, Speakup Self-Advocacy, Eastwood Action Group 103

9 European skills and models: the relevance of the social pedagogue / Jacob Kornbeck, Eunice Lumsden 122

Part 3 PQ functions / Patricia Higham 133

10 Inter-professional learning and multi-professional practice for PQ / Roger Smith 135

11 Research and reflective practice / Eithne Darragh, Brian Taylor 148

12 Practice education / Patricia Higham, Mavis Sharp 161

13 Leadership and management / Victoria Stewart, Laurence Taylor Clarke, Joyce Lishman 173

Part 4 Learning organisations and criticality / Patricia Higham 187

14 Employment perspectives and learning organisations / Nicholas Blinston, Patricia Higham 189

15 PQ issues, career development and criticality / Patricia Higham 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [216]-238) and index.

ISBN:

1412946433

9781412946438

1412946441

9781412946445

OCLC:

228363523