Social Work

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Social Work: A Companion to Learning</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is an exciting and definitive new book that will equip readers with the core knowledge and skills they need to successfully complete their social work training and go on to be an effective practitioner. The text takes a holistic and critical approach not only enabling students and practitioners to understand how to practise social work effectively but also how to locate this practice within its societal context.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Written and edited by leading experts in the field each chapter skilfully explores key themes issues and concepts underpinning social work theory and practice in an engaging authoritative and accessible way. The selection of topics serves to establish:</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- the contexts through which social work education can best be understood</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- the core requirements and processes that characterise social work courses</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- the issues involved in continuing professional development.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The chapters comprise a wide range of key issues such as communication skills partnership working the values of social work supervision management law and research mindedness as well as two unique chapters written exclusively from service users' perspectives.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Case studies interactive questions key points and further reading sections are used throughout the book to bring the material to life and aid readers' understanding. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Social Work: A Companion to Learning</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> will be a core text for students and practitioners at all levels providing the most up-to-date and comprehensive companion they will need to help them progress in their careers.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mark Lymbery</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> has taught social work at the University of Nottingham since 1995. He is the author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Social Work with Older People </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(2005) also published by SAGE. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Karen Postle</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a lecturer in social work at the University of East Anglia. Both authors have a background as social work practitioners.</span></p><p></p>