Exploring and Locating Social Work

A Foundation for Practice
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-137-60434-7
Verlag: Red Globe Press

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 324 g

This engaging and accessible introduction to social work encourages reflective learning in preparation for practice. Direct linking of key concepts to professional standards ensures that students are able to build up an understanding through context and reflective points, and with an emphasis on diversity, ideology, and preparing for practice, students will benefit from both practical and theoretical guidance. Sections are designed to work as both integrated and standalone resources and the flexible methodology will support a range of courses and learning techniques.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill, Darren

Agu, Lorraine

Mercer, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The historical development of social work: making links from the past to the present.- 2. The contemporary role of social work: working with communities and complexity.- 3. Preparing for social work practice: Models of intervention for social work practice.- 4. Working with diversity: understanding and locating individuals and communities.- 5. Global social work: locating and understanding the impact of globalisation on social work.- 6. Preparing for practice: from first placement to final placement

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Darren Hill, Principal Lecturer in Social Work, Leeds Beckett University.

Lorraine Agu, Head of Social Work, Leeds Beckett University.

David Mercer, Course Director for Social Work, Leeds Beckett University.