Reflective practice in social work / edited by Andy Mantell & Terry Scragg.

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Reflective practice is at the heart of becoming a competent and confident social worker. It′s both a key element of learning and development on social work courses and an important aspect of social work practice.This accessible and introductory text explores a range of approaches to reflective practice to help students become more confident in answering key questions, including ′what is reflective practice?′, ′how do I develop as a reflective practitioner?′ and ′how do I maintain reflective practice in key contexts?′. There are many useful resources such as Writing reflective journals, Communicating well with service users and carers and Reflective practice while on placements.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Series editor's preface (p. ix)
• About the editors and contributors (p. xi)
• Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
• Introduction to the fifth edition (p. xv)
• Part 1 What is reflective practice? (p. 1)
• 1 Reflective practice revisited (p. 3)
• What is reflective practice?
• So what is this phenomenon of reflection?
• Roots of reflective practice
• Depth of learning
• Evidence-based practice and reflective practice
• Reflective and critical thinking
• Story telling
• Ethical issues
• What is reflexive practice?
• 2 Getting started (p. 19)
• Reflective space
• Experiential learning and the learning cycle
• Models of learning
• Learning styles
• Personal development planning
• Learning logs or journals
• Online reflection
• Skills laboratory work
• Non-verbal techniques
• Asking good questions
• Critical incident analysis
• Narrative analysis
• Blocks to learning
• 3 Reflecting on emotion in social work (p. 39)
• The purpose of emotion
• Emotions and rationality
• Feeling rules
• A historical perspective
• The impact of emotion on practice
• Talking about emotion and feelings
• Putting emotions to work
• Emotion and critical thinking
• Developing emotional intelligence
• Child observation
• Transference
• Counter-transference
• Regulation and action: emotionally intelligent practice
• Part 2 Developing the reflective practitioner (p. 63)
• 4 Reflection as a catalyst in the development of personal and professional effectiveness (p. 65)
• What do we understand by reflection?
• Where do we start?
• Structure for a reflective journal
• Developing self-awareness
• Action planning
• Approaches that can help us manage our stress
• Belief systems
• Cognitive behaviour therapy
• Rational emotive behaviour therapy
• Critique of the theory
• Being a reflective practitioner
• 5 The importance of the perspective of carers and service users (p. 83)
• Telling a story
• Naming the characters
• Governing variables
• Pre-assessment
• Pre-plan and identify strategies
• Assessment/intervention
• Power and assessment
• Plan and identify strategies
• Meetings - 'not about me without me'?
• Intervention/assessment
• Outcome
• Review
• Understanding and desirable solutions
• Time after time
• 6 The role of reflection in breaking the cycle of unsafe practice (p. 107)
• What is unsafe practice?
• The role of reflection in minimising unsafe practice
• Organisations as unsafe
• Organisations as systems
• Continuous professional development
• Practitioners as unsafe
• The rule of optimism
• Strengths-based approaches
• Plans not aspirations
• Information and power
• Know your limitations
• Professional boundaries
• Are you over-sharing?
• Service users as unsafe
• Practitioner fear
• What counts as threatening behaviour?
• 7 Gender in practice (p. 126)
• What do we mean when we talk about 'gender'?
• Making sense of gender
• Gender roles in social work practice
• Gender and the emotional challenges of social work
• Reflecting on gender in social work training
• 8 Reflective practice on placement (p. 139)
• Reflection within the placement setting
• Being prepared for supervision
• How reflective practice can help you during your placement
• Developing your reflective journal
• Asking reflective questions
• Your reflective journal as evidence in assessment
• Different approaches to reflective practice
• Ensure reflection is challenging
• Using an experiential learning approach
• Impact of working with loss and grief
• The contribution of social work theories
• Integrating theory and practice
• Part 3 Maintaining Reflective Practice (p. 155)
• 9 Working with your team manager (p. 157)
• Part one: the work of the front-line manager
• Part two: managing your relationship with your manager
• Part three: creating a learning environment to support practice
• Conclusion
• 10 Reflective practice for interprofessional co-produced social work collaboration (p. 172)
• Reflection in teams
• Why interprofessional skills are needed
• Reflecting on values in teams
• Reflection on professional identity
• Conclusion (p. 188)
• Appendix 1 Professional Capabilities Framework (2018) (p. 191)
• Appendix 2 Subject benchmark for social work (2016): extracts (p. 192)
• References (p. 202)
• Index (p. 222)

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