Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• The author
• Preface to the fourth edition
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Making sense of social work
• Introduction
• Differences
• Commonalities
• What is social work?
• Forging a new perspective
• The existential basis of social work
• Conclusion
• Guide to further learning
• 2 The legal and policy context
• Introduction
• The Constitution
• The process of law
• The status of legislation
• Social policy
• Agency policy
• Professional practice
• Conclusion
• Guide to further learning
• 3 The knowledge base
• Introduction
• What do social workers need to know?
• Dialectical reason
• Using knowledge
• Thoughts and feelings
• ‘I prefer to stick to practice’
• Conclusion
• Guide to further learning
• 4 The skills base
• Introduction
• Competent to practise
• Expectations of practice
• What is a skill?
• What skills do social workers need?
• How do we develop skills?
• Conclusion
• Guide to further learning
• 5 The value base
• Introduction
• What are values?
• Traditional values
• Emancipatory values
• Conclusion
• Guide to further learning
• 6 Achieving good practice
• Introduction
• Avoiding dangerous practice
• Working in partnership
• Being systematic
• Emancipatory practice
• Reflective practice
• Using supervision
• Conclusion
• Guide to further learning
• 7 Facing the challenge
• Introduction
• Forget that college nonsense
• Bloody social workers!
• Political correctness
• Stress and burnout
• Workload management
• A dying breed?
• Conclusion
• Guide to further learning
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Internet resources
• References
• Index