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Developing Skills for Social Work Practice

by Michaela Rogers, Dawn Whitaker, David Edmondson and Donna Peach

Student Resources

  1. Person-Centred Communication
    • Journal Articles
    • ‘How to …’ guides
    • Weblinks
  2. Active Listening Skills
    • Journal Articles
    • ‘How to …’ guides
  3. Communicating with Children
    • Journal Articles
    • ‘How to …’ guides
    • Weblinks
  4. Emotionally Intelligent Social Work
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  5. Developing Empathic Skills
    • Journal Articles
  6. Reflection and Reflexivity
    • Journal Articles
    • Templates
  7. Understanding Values, Ethics and Human Rights
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  8. Valuing Difference and Diversity
    • Journal Articles
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  9. Assessment Skills
    • Journal Articles
    • ‘How to …’ guides
    • Weblinks
  10. Interviewing Skills
    • Journal Articles
    • ‘How to …’ guides
  11. A Positive Approach to Safeguarding: Risk in Humane Social Work
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  12. Working with Service Users and Carers
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  13. Building Resilience
    • Journal Articles
  14. Conflict Management and Resolution
    • Journal Articles
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  15. Research-Informed Practice
    • Journal Articles
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  16. Writing Skills for Practice
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  17. Inter-professional Practice and Working Together
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  18. Maximising Supervision
    • Journal Articles
  19. Review and Evaluation
    • Journal Articles
    • Templates
    • Weblinks
  20. Court Skills
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  21. Strengths and Soloution-Focused Approaches
    • Journal Articles
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  22. Systems Theory and an Ecological Approach
    • Journal Articles
  23. Attachment Theory: Examining Maternal Sensitivity
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  24. Person-Centred Social Work
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  25. Group Work
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  26. Task-Centred Social Work Practice
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  27. Crisis Intervention
    • Journal Articles
  28. The Social Models of Diability and Distress
    • Journal Articles
    • Weblinks
  • Study skills

Journal Articles

Access journal articles that can act as an ideal resource to help support your assigments and dissertations.

Click on the following links, which will open in a new window.

Littlechild, B. and Hawley, C. (2010) Risk assessments for mental health service users: ethical, valid and reliable? Journal of Social Work, 10: 211–229.

Warner, J. (2003) An initial assessment of the extent to which risk factors, frequently identified in research, are taken into account when assessing risk in child protection cases. Journal of Social Work, 3: 339–363. 

Carey, M. (2015) Journey’s end? From residual service to newer forms of pathology, risk aversion and abandonment in social work with older people. Journal of Social Work, 1468017315578639, first published on
24 March.

Stalker, K . (2003) Managing risk and uncertainty in social work: a literature review. Journal of Social Work, 3(2): 211–233.

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