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Active Social Work with Children with Disabilities provides a comprehensive social worker’s guide to working with children with disabilities, exploring current issues from the perspective of both the social worker and the family. Many people are afraid of working in this field of social work and this book dispels the myths and fears about working with children with disabilities and build the social worker’s confidence in an area that is often left behind within the social work world. The book will help you to:undertake a social work assessment with a child with a disabilityconsider the holistic needs of the child and the familyexplore the impact of grief and loss upon the familybuild emotional intelligence and resilience within families.communicate with children with disabilities communication techniques.The new SEND legislation and issues around Safeguarding of Children with Disabilities and Transition to Adult Social Care for the young person are explored, and activities and scenarios help you to critically reflect and explore theory and practice further.

This book offers a simple, constructive and fully referenced guide to planning and reflecting on career development in social work, using a portfolio-based approach.Fully updated to reflect the current social work landscape, including the Knowledge and Skills statements, Evidencing CPD provides a comprehensive guide to support social workers to create and develop their own portfolio and focus on critical reflection as a learning tool for CPD activities. By developing a professional portfolio all the elements of the changing environment can be brought into a single place so that individual practice lies at the heart of service improvement. This book helps social workers to work through the process, providing hints, tips and guidance on constructing a portfolio in line with the PCF. It also helps guide critical reflection so they can learn from their own practice.This best-selling publication is packed with examples and exercises to support personal portfolio development and is mapped to the different levels of social work progression.

This best-selling book is an invaluable guide for social workers undertaking learning and assessment to gain and maintain Stage 1 or 2 qualified practice educator status and for those involved in facilitating the mentoring, learning, support, assessment and CPD of practice educators.Now fully updated to reflect the changing social work placement landscape and the BASW refreshed (2022) Practice Educator Professional Standards (PEPS), it covers all key areas within Practice Educator training and offers guidance on the application of key skills and knowledge in supporting, assessing and teaching social work students and managing the placement. It will particularly assist Practice Educators to: Understand, prepare for and provide appropriate learning opportunitiesSupervise and develop social work students effectivelyUnderstand holistic assessment of practice; assessing in line with capability levels expected at the end of first and final placementDeal with weaker or failing studentsPrepare for the PEPS qualification process.

You write something so that it can be read, not in order that it can be written – write reports that achieve and illuminate!The third edition of the best-selling Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work guides you through the principles of good writing and methodically shows you:how to analysehow to structure the process of writing an assessment (researching, chronologising, informed data-gathering, putting it all together),how to get this done under time constraints.how to break down the practical and psychological barriers to good practice andhow to turn good analysis into useful recommendations.This new edition features brand new content, on subjects such as decision-making and cognitive fallacies in assessment, how to conduct analysis on domestic violence and systematic thinking and reflexivity in assessment. There are also updates on MCA assessments, new legislation and documents.Written in an accessible way and packed with examples and case studies, this book is both practically-minded and constantly returning to first principles: reminding you what it is you are trying to achieve and teaching you how to write reports that can be read by families and judges alike. You will learn how to write high quality, useful and timely assessments without becoming mechanistic or managerial. This book kills the myth of a trade-off between efficiency and quality of work.Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work is an essential companion whether you are a newly-qualified social worker, a student about to undertake your first placement or a seasoned professional looking to improve your skills. It is also suitable for all branches of social work.

This fully revised and updated fourth edition guides the reader through the principles of good writing, methodically demonstrating• how to analyse,• how to structure the process of writing an assessment (researching, chronologising, informed data-gathering, putting it all together) under time constraints,• how to break down practical and psychological barriers to good practice,• how to turn good analysis into useful recommendations.The new edition also features added content on neurodiversity, the voice of the child, analysing risk, cultural humility, Ubuntu principles, and domestic violence assessment tools.Written in an accessible way and packed with examples and case studies, this book teaches readers how to write high-quality, useful, and timely assessments, without becoming mechanistic or managerial. Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work is an essential companion for newly qualified social workers, students undertaking their first placements, and seasoned professionals looking to improve their skills. It is suitable for all branches of social work.

This fully revised and updated fourth edition guides the reader through the principles of good writing, methodically demonstrating• how to analyse,• how to structure the process of writing an assessment (researching, chronologising, informed data-gathering, putting it all together) under time constraints,• how to break down practical and psychological barriers to good practice,• how to turn good analysis into useful recommendations.The new edition also features added content on neurodiversity, the voice of the child, analysing risk, cultural humility, Ubuntu principles, and domestic violence assessment tools.Written in an accessible way and packed with examples and case studies, this book teaches readers how to write high-quality, useful, and timely assessments, without becoming mechanistic or managerial. Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work is an essential companion for newly qualified social workers, students undertaking their first placements, and seasoned professionals looking to improve their skills. It is suitable for all branches of social work.

This book offers a simple, constructive and fully referenced guide to planning and reflecting on career development in social work, using a portfolio-based approach.Fully updated to reflect the current social work landscape, including the Knowledge and Skills statements, Evidencing CPD provides a comprehensive guide to support social workers to create and develop their own portfolio and focus on critical reflection as a learning tool for CPD activities. By developing a professional portfolio all the elements of the changing environment can be brought into a single place so that individual practice lies at the heart of service improvement. This book helps social workers to work through the process, providing hints, tips and guidance on constructing a portfolio in line with the PCF. It also helps guide critical reflection so they can learn from their own practice.This best-selling publication is packed with examples and exercises to support personal portfolio development and is mapped to the different levels of social work progression.

Positive Social Work will support and help you as a NQSW to understand your role within the context of a developing Social Work service. It will ensure that you are equipped with the knowledge and skills to do the job as best you can.Leaving university and entering the world of social work can be quite a daunting experience, though also exciting and challenging. Positive Social Work helps you as a NQSW to understand your role within the context of a constantly developing social work service. Now updated with the Knowledge and Skills statements, it ensures that you are equipped with everything you need to do the job as best you can. Positive Social Work is packed with information and resources to enable you as an NQSW to work in a professional manner, to protect yourself from the pressures of the role and to ensure you know where to look for support. This book also assists you with ongoing professional development by giving you tools you can adapt for your own area of Social Work. This book provides a unique tool designed to support your journey through the Assessed & Supported Year in Employment and is full of case studies and exercises designed to help your understanding and develop positive habits which will enhance your career.