SOWK 3423: Social Work - Social Work Practice II: Theories and Practice

A comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.

This practical, easy-to-use, and hands-on guide bridges this gap by illustrating the helping skills that practitioners can actually use to influence people's lives in positive ways. Integrating two major helping models--motivational interviewing and solution-focused therapy.

Introduction of the ecological perspective into social work practice.

First-person accounts by social workers who have successfully integrated narrative theory and approaches into their practice.

A new approach to reflective social work practice and critical pedagogy.

Communicates theory using illustrative case studies and a model for practice. Covers anti-oppressive and diversity issues, service user perspectives and systemic approaches.

Essays that reaffirm the place of theory in social work practice.

An innovative and comprehensive theoretical and practical basis for social assessment.

A practice model for psychotherapy to make a client aware of how problems can be analyzed, to prepare her/him to participate more effectively with a clinician in seeking problem resolution and to provide a client with a tool for future problem solving.

A primary social work practice text, built around the nine core CSWE competencies.

A completely revised and updated overview of the theories, models, and therapies that inform direct social work practice.