Social work practice : a critical thinker's guide / Eileen Gambrill.
"Now in a new edition, this accessible, engaging textbook presents step-by-step guidelines and useful examples for each phase of practice, from assessment to intervention to evaluation. It describes and illustrates the process of evidence-based practice and its value in honoring ethical obligat...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Social workers at work
- Getting oriented
- Social work: an introduction
- Clients and services
- Values, ethics, and obligations
- Thinking about knowledge and how to get it
- Different views of knowledge and how to get it
- Critical thinking: integral to evidence-based practice
- Thinking about problems and causes
- Competing views of problems and their causes
- Taking advantage of research findings about behavior and how it is influenced by the environment
- A problem-solving practice model
- Problem solving and decision making: integral to helping clients
- Evidence-based practice: a decision-making process and philosophy
- Posing questions and searching for answers
- Critically appraising research: thinking for yourself
- Getting started
- Contextual assessment
- Beginning: a procedural guideline
- Engaging clients
- Relationship skills
- Interpersonal helping skills
- Handling challenging social situations
- Gathering and organizing information
- Where to look: deciding how to gather needed information
- Observation: learning to see
- Reviewing resources and obstacles
- Putting it all together
- Selecting plans and assessing progress
- Selecting and implementing service plans
- Evaluating outcomes as integral to problem solving
- Planning for endings
- Intervention options
- Helping clients enhance their strengths: providing information and skill building
- Helping clients learn positive behavior change skills
- Working with groups and families
- Organizations and communities
- The long run
- Maintaining skills and staying happy in your work.