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How to be a social worker : a critical guide for students / Priscilla Dunk-West.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013Description: viii, 193 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230370160
  • 9780230370166
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.32 DUN
Summary: Linked to a range of core modules on pre-qualifying social work programmes but written also for those practitioners committed to nurturing their own social work identities, 'How to be a Social Worker' is from one of social work's most up-and-coming authors.
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Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 361.32 DUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100659938
Standard Loan Thurles Library Main Collection 361.32 DUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 0 Available 39002100658955

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This textbook equips social work students with the tools to develop a social work identity. It provides a critical examination of the knowledge base of social work - from human growth and development to social work research - and explores how a practitioner's own values, principles and experience combine to shape their social work identity and practice alongside this.

Linked to a range of core modules on pre-qualifying social work programmes but written also for those practitioners committed to nurturing their own social work identities, this is a must have text from one of social work's most up-and-coming authors that brings together all areas of the classroom and practice curriculum to make learning a novel, creative and interactive process.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-187) and index.

Linked to a range of core modules on pre-qualifying social work programmes but written also for those practitioners committed to nurturing their own social work identities, 'How to be a Social Worker' is from one of social work's most up-and-coming authors.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 The Social Work Self
  • 2 Human Development
  • 3 Communication Skills
  • 4 Social Work Theory
  • 5 Everyday Ethics
  • 6 Practice Learning in Organisational Settings
  • 7 Research in Social Work
  • 8 'Doing' Social Work: Constituting the Professional Self

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Priscilla Dunk-West is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of South Australia, Australia. A sociologist and social worker, Priscilla has held university appointments in both Australia and England, teaching across a wide range of modules on the Social Work curriculum; her research interests include everyday sexuality and sociology and social theory in social work.

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