Product Description

This book is part of the "Transforming Social Work Practice" series written specifically to support students on social work degree courses. All social work students are required to undertake specific learning and assessment in partnership working and information sharing across professional disciplines and agencies. Increasingly social workers are also finding that they need to deal with a range of other professions as part of their day to day work. It is essential for social workers to be able to work collaboratively and effectively with other professionals but at the same time to practise in accordance with social work values and to retain a clear professional identity. This book will prepare student social workers to work with a wide variety of professionals including: youth workers, teachers, the legal profession, and health professionals. Taking a very practical approach, the author looks at each profession in turn and carefully outlines their organisational framework. The points where other professional codes of ethics and values diverge from those of social work are highlighted and the impact this may have upon practice explained. Supporting the text are a range of activities and case studies to help the student understand the differences in approach and to encourage them to practise and refine their skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80347 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 153 pages

Review
A very good text discussing the importance and relevance of collaborative practice. A nice introduction for social work students --Senior Lecturer, Canterbury Christ Church University

Lecturer in Social Work, University of Sotuhampton
Easy to digest...Touches both specialist study relating to adult and children's work and study of the legal framework."

Practice Learning Co-ordinator, NEWI College
"Integration of NOS and QAA benchmarks help both student, assessor and student to understand and chart learning. Very valuable resource."