An introduction to social work
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Key ideas in social work
    • 1.1 Knowledge
    • 1.2 Values, ethics and anti-oppressive practice
    • 1.3 The social work process
    • 1.4 Skills
  • 2 Focusing on the individual
    • 2.1 Biography
      • Your life story
      • Biography as history
      • Children with disabilities
      • Placing biography in context
      • Viewing policies in context
      • Relationship-based social work
    • 2.2 Identity and identities
      • Self-identity
      • Complex identities
      • Self-definition
      • Ascribed identity
      • Spoiled identities: stigma
      • Psychosocial theories of development
      • Attachment theory and social work
      • Disrupted attachments
      • The impact of early experiences
      • Understanding identity
    • 2.3 Developing a professional social work identity
      • Empathy
      • Service users’ perceptions
      • Values and ethical practice
      • Personal values
      • Social work values
      • Ethics and professionalism: being accountable
    • 2.4 Bringing your learning together in reflective practice
      • Consolidating your learning
      • Reflection as a process of integration
      • Cycle of learning
      • Developing your own reflective skills
      • Being self-aware in reflective practice
      • Developing your self-awareness
      • Supervision as a tool for self-awareness
      • Reflective writing
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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