Social Work by Patricia E Higham
What is the role of social work? What does it mean to be a social worker? What are the changes affecting social work training? This book addresses these questions and provides an understanding of the knowledge, values, and skills requirements of professional social work. It offers a thoughtful commentary upon training, education and practice.
′Comprehensive and user-friendlyThe book is helpfully constructed around a number of key themes, starting with a good attempt to define social work from historical and international perspectives and moving on to address key issues concerning the practice, knowledge, values and skills required from contemporary social work in the UK. I believe social work students, newly qualified and experienced social workers will find ths a valuable resource, especially when one is confronted by challenges in practice′ - Professional Social Work
′Social Work is a good overview that should refresh learner and tutor alike. Pratice assessors may find this book a useful update for their work with students and also a neat refresher. It is a well-written and up-to-date text, with a good sense of where future challenges lie for the social work profession in the UK. Higham is confident enough to voice the profession′s uncertainties as well as mapping the changing organisational landscape that social workers might populate. [This book] is likely to appear on many social work reading lists. [It has] the potential to provide good learning opportunities for post-qualifying as well as pre-qualifying training′ - Health and Social Care in the Community
Patricia Higham is a registered social worker and an independent social work consultant. She is a non-executive director of an NHS primary care trust and emeritus professor at Nottingham Trent University. She has been appointed Visiting Professor of Social Work at the University of Northampton. She has written Social Work: Introducing Professional Practice (SAGE, 2006).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781412908573 |
| ISBN 10 | 1412908574 |
| Title | Social Work |
| Author | Patricia E Higham |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2006-02-14 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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