Introducing social work: a starter kit
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1 Moving around the course
  • Introduction
  • 2 The problem of defining social work
  • 3 Social work values and ethics
  • 4 Discrimination and anti-oppressive practice
  • 5 What do social workers ‘do’?
  • 6 Social work roles
  • 7 Summary of Session 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 What would you prefer?
  • 2 Communication skills
  • 3 Creating rapport
  • 4 Empathy
  • 5 The social work relationship
  • 6 Service user involvement
  • 7 Resistance to social work involvement
  • 8 Communicating with children
  • 9 Language and power
  • 10 Working with interpreters
  • 11 Social work communication with a family group
  • 12 Summary of Session 2
  • Introduction
  • 1 Poverty
    • 1.1 What is poverty?
    • 1.2 Explanations for poverty
    • 1.3 The extent and forms of social disadvantage in society
    • 1.4 The gap between rich and poor
    • 1.5 The impact of poverty on people’s lives
  • 2 Social exclusion
    • 2.1 Approaches for social work practice
    • 2.2 The impact of social attitudes on exclusion: disability
    • 2.3 Social exclusion: systemic and ecological perspectives
    • 2.4 Social exclusion: the impact of social support
    • 2.5 Social exclusion: the nature of network support
  • 3 Social work with communities
    • 3.1 Community development and the role of social work
    • 3.2 The policy context
    • 3.3 Asset-based approaches to community development
    • 3.4 Community profiling
  • 4 Social work and groups
    • 4.1 Group processes
    • 4.2 Planning is important
    • 4.3 Group leaders need group ‘skills’
    • 4.4 Some group behaviours can be problematic
    • 4.5 Examples of groups
  • 5 Social work and the law
  • 6 Summary of Session 3
  • Introduction
  • 1 Developmental frameworks
    • 1.1 Perspectives on human growth and development
    • 1.2 Nature versus nurture
  • 2 Development and children
    • 2.1 Developmental needs of children
    • 2.2 Observing children’s development
    • 2.3 Attachment theory
  • 3 Development over a lifetime
    • 3.1 Life span theory
    • 3.2 The life course perspective
    • 3.3 Stage theories and the life course
    • 3.4 Risk, safety and young people
    • 3.5 Adult growth and development
    • 3.6 Adjusting to change
  • 4 Development in a social context
    • 4.1 Social ecology
    • 4.2 The social ecological perspective: advantages and limitations
  • 5 Summary of Session 4
  • 6 Thinking like a social worker
  • 7 End-of-course summary
  • 8 Where next?
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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