Jonathan Parker 
Introducing Social Work 

Everything you need to succeed in your social work degree! Written by subject experts, this essential guide will introduce you to all the core areas of your course, helping you develop the knowledge and skills you need to practice with confidence.  



Since launching in 2003, Transforming Social Work Practice has become the market-leading series for social work students. These books use activities and case studies to build critical thinking and reflection skills and will help social work students to develop good practice through learning. These books are:



· Affordable                                               

· Written to the Professional Capabilities Framework

· Mapped to the social work curriculum           

· Practical with clear links between theory and practice

Cuprins

PART I: SOCIAL WORK THEORY AND METHODS

Chapter 1: The history and context of contemporary social work (including global social work) – Jo Finch & Jonathan Parker

Chapter 2: Social work values and ethics – Steven Shardlow

Chapter 3: Theories and methods of social work practice – Barbra Teater and Katrina Hannan

Chapter 4: Social work and the law – Robert Johns

Chapter 5: Human growth and development in social work – Janet Walker

Chapter 6: The social work process: assessment, planning, intervention and review – Jonathan Parker

PART II: SOCIAL WORK SKILLS

Chapter 7: Anti-oppressive practice skills – Prospera Tedam

Chapter 8: Writing skills for social workers – Lucy Rai

Chapter 9: Critical thinking and reflective practice – Joanna Rawles

Chapter 10: Communication and interpersonal skills – Juliet Koprowska

Chapter 11: Courtroom skills for social workers – Allan Norman

Chapter 12: Group work skills – Timothy B. Kelly and Toby Berman-Rossi

Chapter 13: Leadership and management skills in social work – Trish Hafford-Letchfield

Chapter 14: Using research in social work – Brian J. Taylor

Chapter 15: Looking after yourself as a social worker – Jo Finch

Chapter 16: Creative skills for social workers – Jonathan Parker

PART III: SOCIAL WORK INTERVENTIONS IN PRACTICE

Chapter 17: Social work and safeguarding children – Nancy Kelly

Chapter 18: Social work with children and young people in need – Melanie Watts & Nick Frost

Chapter 19: Working with unaccompanied refugee minors – Deborah Hadwin, Helen Guizani & Gurnam Singh

Chapter 20: Social work and youth justice – Roger Smith & Sean Creaney

Chapter 21: Social work and mental health (children, young people and adults) – Toby Brandon, Carole Southall and Steve O′Driscoll

Chapter 22: Social work and disability (children, young people and adults) – Sally Lee

Chapter 23: Social work and learning disability/difficulties (children, young people and adults) – Emma Evans & Sally Lee

Chapter 24: Social work, fostering and adoption (working with children and adults) – Lucille Allain & Siobhan O′Farrell-Pearce

Chapter 25: Social work with asylum seekers and refugees – Kim Robinson

Chapter 26: Social work and substance use – Orlanda Harvey

Chapter 27: Social work with older people – Ann Anka

Chapter 28: Social work at the end of life: death, dying, bereavement and loss – Sue Taplin and Denise Turner

Chapter 29: Working with communities – Keith Popple

Despre autor

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Parker is Professor of Society & Social Welfare at Bournemouth University, Emeritus Professor at University of Stavanger, Norway. He is Visiting Professor at the Tasik Chini Research Centre Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and Doctoral programme team member at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He was one of the founders and director of the Family Assessment and Support Unit, a placement agency attached to the University of Hull, and Head of Department of Social Work. He was Chair of the Association of Teachers in Social Work Education until 2005, Vice Chair of the UK higher education representative body, the Joint University Council for Social Work Education from 2005- 2010, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has published widely (over 200 scholarly papers and chapters and 37 books): on disadvantage, marginalization, violence, social work and welfare education. He is author of the best-selling book Social Work Practice (SAGE, 2021) and series editor for the highly successful Transforming Social Work Practice series (SAGE).