Title:
Social work skills and knowledge : a practice handbook / Pamela Trevithick.
Social work skills.
Main Entry:
Trevithick, Pamela.
Trevithick, Pamela. Social work skills.
Publisher:
Open University Press/McGraw-Hill,
Publication Date:
2012.
Publication Place:
Maidenhead, Berkshire ; New York :
ISBN:
9780335238071
0335238076
Subject:
Social service -- Practice.
Social service -- Practice.
Edition:
3rd ed.
Contents:
pt. 1 Theories and Theorists. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical knowledge -- 3. Factual knowledge -- 4. Practice knowledge -- 5. Understanding human beings -- pt. 2. Skills and Interventions. -- 6. Communication, observation, listening, and assessment skills -- 7. Interviewing skills -- 8. Providing help, direction, and guidance -- 9. Empowerment, negotiation, and partnership skills -- 10. Professional competence and accountability -- APPENDICES -- Appendix 1. Behaviourist approaches -- Appendix 2. Cognitive approaches -- Appendix 3. Crisis intervention -- Appendix 4. Ecological approach in social work -- Appendix 5. Feminist perspectives in social work -- Appendix 6. Motivational interviewing -- Appendix 7. Person-centred approaches -- Appendix 8. Psychological approaches -- Appendix 9. Radical and activist perspectives in social work -- Appendix 10. Strengths perspectives -- Appendix 11. Task-centred approaches -- Appendix 12. Stages of change (or cycle of change).
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