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Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice
Emphasizes the different techniques needed for successful social work practice. This title is also available as a more affordable e-book with embedded media to illustrate key concepts.
Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice, 10/e demonstrates the unique place of social work among the helping professions. Readers will gain insight into the social worker’s professional roles, guiding principles, and the importance of evidence-based practice. This title provides students with easy access to the most current information on fundamental techniques and useful guidelines for social work practice from the generalist perspective. The 10th edition introduces 12 new techniques or guidelines corresponding to the national social work licensing examinations and the Council on Social Work Education’s list of essential practice behaviors.
Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice is broken into five parts. Parts I and II provide knowledge, values, and competencies for effective social work practice, while Parts III through V contain 154 clear and readable descriptions of practice techniques, presented in a handbook format for convenient accessibility of information.
Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks to register for your digital examination copy, or contact your Pearson Representative to learn more.
Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice, 10/e demonstrates the unique place of social work among the helping professions. Readers will gain insight into the social worker’s professional roles, guiding principles, and the importance of evidence-based practice. This title provides students with easy access to the most current information on fundamental techniques and useful guidelines for social work practice from the generalist perspective. The 10th edition introduces 12 new techniques or guidelines corresponding to the national social work licensing examinations and the Council on Social Work Education’s list of essential practice behaviors.
Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice is broken into five parts. Parts I and II provide knowledge, values, and competencies for effective social work practice, while Parts III through V contain 154 clear and readable descriptions of practice techniques, presented in a handbook format for convenient accessibility of information.
Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks to register for your digital examination copy, or contact your Pearson Representative to learn more.
592 pages, Paperback
First published December 18, 2007
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January 13, 2015
For a textbook, this one really wasn't that bad. The early chapters were a great refresher of skills, concepts, and theories that I'd already learned in other classes. The later chapters gave a great foundation for several different techniques in working with clients. It also gave information on different client groups.
Only suggestion would be to break up some of these chapters because they get to be quite long and it's difficult to get through them. Plus the grouping of information in certain chapters is awkward and it would better if the information was presented in multiple chapters.
Only suggestion would be to break up some of these chapters because they get to be quite long and it's difficult to get through them. Plus the grouping of information in certain chapters is awkward and it would better if the information was presented in multiple chapters.
March 24, 2010
Although this is a textbook, it makes for a creative review of the transforming field of social work while challenging personal learning edges with recent contributions by science, culture, and community organizations that have taken risks worth taking.
January 17, 2016
Covers a lot of material. Unfortunately, I felt it only scratched the surface. For more detail on most topics, will have to refer to another source.
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