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Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfare
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Table of Contents

Tables and figures

Acknowledgements

Contributors

PART I: LEARNING PRACTICE SKILLS - THEORY AND CONTEXT

1 Introduction: The integrated framework - Jane Maidment and Ronnie Egan

2 Critical anti-oppressive and strengths-based practice - Ronnie Egan and Angelika Papadopoulos

3 Learning and teaching practice skills in social work and welfare - Susie Costello

4 Social work using information and communication technology - Liz Beddoe

5 Social work practice with communities - Robyn Mason and Uschi Bay

6 Preparing to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: Decolonisation for social work practice - Lorraine Muller

PART II: ENGAGEMENT

7 Developing the helping relationship: Engagement - Ronnie Egan

8 Engaging with clients in different contexts - Helen Cleak and Ronnie Egan

9 Engagement with families involved in the statutory system - Robyn Miller

PART III: ASSESSMENT

10 Assessment: Framework and components - Jane Maidment

11 Critically examining the process of risk assessment - Christine Morley

12 Collaborative assessment from a cross-cultural perspective - Lynne Briggs

13 Working with families - Yvonne Crichton-Hill

14 Assessment with Maori - Sharyn Roberts

PART IV: INTERVENTION

15 Taking action: Change and intervention - Ronnie Egan and Christine Craik

16 Challenging constructively and staying safe - Delia O'Donohue

17 Social change through group work - Ken McMaster

PART V: EVALUATION AND CLOSURE

18 Evaluation and research in social work practice - Raewyn Tudor

19 Facilitating closure - Hannah Mooney and Michael Dale

Appendix 1: Family Safety Risk Assessment Tool

Appendix 2: Barwon Health Mental Health Risk Assessment

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

JANE MAIDMENT has over twenty years' experience of teaching practice skills and working in field education with students and practitioners. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Human Services and Social Work at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

RONNIE EGAN has extensive experience as a social work practitioner and supervisor in the community sector. She is an Associate Professor in Field Education in the School of Global, Urban and Social Sciences at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Reviews

"The main strength of the book is the consistency of its themes throughout the text . . . I would like to commend the editors of this book for the contribution it should make to practice teaching with social work and welfare." --Karen Heycox, Australian Social Work

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