Contemporary Field Social Work

Integrating Field and Classroom Experience

ISBN: 978-1-4129-8719-6
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 232 mm

Thisátext bridges the gap by offering learning activities that can be worked in both settings. The book is divided into four main parts that accounts for the major areas of social work practice. Part I covers the foundations of practice, including self awareness and knowing and learning about the community within one will practice. The second part deals with direct practice and covers individual assessment and group work. The third part focuses on agency practice and finally the last part covers special issues for consideration, including multicultural practice, law-informed practice, ethics, specialist and comparative practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doel, Mark

Shardlow, Steven M.

Johnson, Paul G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I. Foundations of Practice
Context: Where Does Learning Take Place?
1. Learning About Service Users and Their Communities
About Activity 1: Permission to Learn
2. Learning About Yourself
About Activity 2: Points of View
3. Learning About Your Role
About Activity 3: Boundaries
4. Learning About Value Conflicts and Ethical Dilemmas
About Activity 4: The Myth of Sisyphus
Part II. Direct Practice
Context: Interdisciplinary Learning and Practice
5. Preparation
About Activity 5: Starting Out
6. Generating Options
About Activity 6: Open Ends
7. Making Assessments in Partnership
About Activity 7: Hold the Front Page
8. Working in and With Groups
About Activity 8: No One Is an Island
Part III. Agency Practice
Context: Creative Practice and Procedural Requirements
9. Making Priorities
About Activity 9: Home Truths
10. Managing Resources
About Activity 10: Travel Agent
11. Accountability
About Activity 11: Held to Account
12. Challenging Situations and Resolving Conflicts
About Activity 12: Dial "D" for Danger
Part IV. Themes of Practice
Context: Social Workers as Researchers: Evaluating Practice
13. Multicultural Practice
About Activity 13: The Drawbridge
14. Law-Informed Practice
About Activity 14: A-Z of the Law: Spirit and Letter
15. Generalist and Specialist Practice
About Activity 15: Essence of Social Work
16. Comparative Social Work
About Activity 16: View From Another Place.Another Time
References
Index
About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Doel, Mark
Mark Doel, PhD, MA (Oxon), CQSW is Research Professor of Social Work at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a registered social worker and was in practice for almost twenty years, including two separate years living and working in the US. His research focuses on groupwork, social work practice and practice education and he has an international reputation in these fields.

Professor Doel is widely published. His fifteenth book, Social Work Placements: a traveller's guide (Routledge) introduces readers to Socialworkland, a travel guide approach to practice learning. Other recent books include: Educating Professionals: practice learning in health and social care (Ashgate, with Shardlow) which explores how students learn their practice in nine different professions, using a virtual local community to bring the professions together; Experiencing Social Work: learning from service users (Sage, with Best) which tells the stories of service users who have had positive experiences of social work and reflects on what we can learn from this; Using Groupwork (Routledge) and The Task-Centred Book (Routledge, with Marsh). He is co-editor of the journal Groupwork and founding co-editor of the journal, Social Policy and Social Work in Transition, published in Republic of Georgia.

Mark directs a 3-year, EU-funded project to develop social work education and research in the republic of Georgia and the Ukraine and he is a consultant with UNICEF and EveryChild. He leads training workshops in practice education and groupwork.

Shardlow, Steven M.
Professor Steven M. Shardlow MA(Oxon), MSc (Oxon), PhD, CQSW, AASW, RSW, FHEA, Professor Shardlow is Foundation holder of the Chair of Social Work at the University of Salford, England, where until recently he was Director of the Institute for Health and Social Care Research. He has held visiting professorial appointments in Norway, Italy, and Hong Kong: Previously, he was Director of a U.K. social work masters professional qualification programme. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Social Work. Previously chairperson of The Association of Teachers of Social Work Education (ATSWE- U.K.), he has worked as a social work practitioner and manager. He is a registered social worker in England and has worked extensively in international social work, through research, consultancy and development work. Current research interests are in the following areas: applied professional ethics; comparative research in social work; evidence-based policy and practice, programme evaluation and research utilisation (particularly in respect of social work with children and families and older people); professional knowledge, socialization and professional education (particularly in respect of field education); welfare and social capital (particularly as a theoretical underpinning for social work). He has published widely in these fields, including fifteen books, and his work has been translated into several languages.

Johnson, Paul G.
Paul G. Johnson, DSW, LCSW is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Southern Maine. He is a licensed social worker in the State of Maine. Prior to coming to USM, Dr. Johnson worked at Lehman College, CUNY where he was the fieldwork coordinator for the BSW program. For several years, Dr. Johnson was affiliated with Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA) in New York City. His responsibilities included the agency owned Group and Boarding Home Programs. Prior to joining JCCA, Professor Johnson worked for United Cerebral Palsy Association of NYS, where he was a social worker for 42 dual-diagnosed clients in a residential setting. Before coming to the United States in 1986, he worked in a residential social work in England.

At USM, Paul teaches primarily BSW courses including Introduction to Social Work, Introduction to Social Welfare, the Fieldwork Seminar and both sections of the undergraduate research sequence. In 2007, he co-authored With Bruce St. Thomas, Empowering Children through Art and Expression Culturally Sensitive Ways of Healing Trauma and Grief. Over the past several years, he has published twelve referred articles and six non-refereed articles in Community Care. For the past ten years he has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Steering Committee Caring Across Communities Multilingual Multicultural Center Portland Public Schools: In March 2007 this organization was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant for Mental Health Services for $300,000.