Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording

by Nancy L. Sidell

Social work practitioners spend a lot of time documenting services they provide, but many are ill-prepared for this practice responsibility. In Social Work A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording, Nancy Sidell has written the perfect, practical, how-to book on developing effective documentation. Regardless of the practice setting, clinical specialty, and documentation format, this book will help to build better recording skills. In her book, Social Work A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording, Dr. Sidell provides a clear, concise, and thorough justification of why documentation is important, the different styles used to record client information, and an array of valuable case exercises to work through. Particularly useful is the inclusion of current and relevant examples of documentation that represent a range of practice fields at all levels of social work intervention to micro, mezzo, and macro. Woven throughout the workbook are ethical, legal, and supervisory situations that occur in practice that require the reader to critically think about how they would respond. This book is suitable and highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate education, agency trainings, and continuing education courses. NASW Press NASW Press, a division of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences. We serve faculty, practitioners, agencies, libraries, clinicians, and researchers throughout the United States and abroad. Known for attracting expert authors, the NASW Press delivers professional information to hundreds of thousands of readers through its scholarly journals, books, and reference works. Some of the areas we publish in -Social work in the field of aging
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Genres: Social Work, Nonfiction

214 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2010

Reviews

[Kimberlee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I borrowed this book from a colleague and slowly plowed through it. I found it to be some dated, and I believe the value of the book would've been increased for me if I had gone through all the exercises with a colleague. The book proports that indeed this is how to get the most out of it. I learned a thing or two. As a writer, I enjoyed reading what what makes good social work documentation.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

While this is a small book, it is a good guide to strengthen your documentation. I purchased this for one of my SWK classes and found myself looking back at it after I started working in child protective services.

[Kate M · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to read this one, obviously, for class, but it was a great resource to get me back in to proper documentation mode.

[Sara Henderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good textbook easy to read, great examples for exercises, stated a lot of obvious answers