Putting Analysis into Assessment, Second Edition by Emma Sawyer

Putting Analysis into Assessment, Second Edition by Emma Sawyer

The essential guide to improving assessment practice in child care social work.

As social workers are striving to push back the excessive levels of bureaucratisation and increase the space for professional practice, this excellent book offers easily understood ways to improve critical reasoning skills and will be useful for individuals, teams, and agencies-- Professor Eileen Munro Social Policy Department, London School of Economics
I found the sections on resilience particularly helpful - and when I made use of the section on how to use research skills (e.g. developing hypotheses and cultural awareness) it received excellent feedback from students. Students commented on how it helped them to make sense of research skills, which they had previously struggled with and which with the best will in the world they had often seen as being somewhat distanced from their practice. -- Ruth Neville, Principal lecturer, Division of Social Work, University of Huddersfield

The authors have pulled together a variety of sources and interpreted legislative and practice guidance into user-friendly, practical tools to be used before, during and after assessment. Although essentially a toolkit for practitioners, it does not ignore the challenges, complexities and tensions often present in social work with children and families. Relevant and realistic attempts are made to interpret the context of assessment work before suggesting practical advice, which definitely adds to its value.
The book is aimed at fine-tuning social work skills and improving the confidence of social work practitioners. It is recommended for newly qualified social workers and more experienced practitioners alike, with particular merit for those studying towards a post-qualifying award. If used as a 'team' resource this book could be helpful in developing and maintaining consistency among colleagues in completing assessments of need.

-- Eve Desjardins, Adoption Social Worker, PSW (April 2012)

Ruth Dalzell has social work skills in field work, family placements and youth justice gained during 12 years of direct social work practice with children and families and has considerable experience in individual and group work with children, young people and adults. At NCB for 9 years she instigated, managed and delivered practice development projects, consultancy, policy activity, conferences, seminars and training courses and developed a well regarded network for children's services managers and planners. Ruth has published widely on practice development issues for children's services. She now works as a consultant.

Emma Sawyer has worked as a social worker, manager and trainer, she has extensive experience of working with children and families with complex and challenging needs. Whilst working for NCB, Emma published several resources on how services can best work together to support parenting more effectively.

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ISBN 13	9781907969294
ISBN 10	1907969292
Title	Putting Analysis into Assessment, Second Edition
Author	Emma Sawyer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Year published	2011-10-31
Number of pages	170
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.