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Developing Skills & Knowledge for Social Work Practice

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

Student Resources

  • SAGE Video
    • Chapter 2: Active Listening Skills
    • Chapter 3: Communicating with Children
    • Chapter 4: Emotionally Intelligent Social Work
    • Chapter 5: Developing Empathic Skills
    • Chapter 6: Reflection and Reflexivity
    • Chapter 7: Understanding Values, Ethics and Human Rights
    • Chapter 8: Valuing Difference and Diversity
    • Chapter 11: Assessment Skills
    • Chapter 13: A Positive Approach to Safeguarding
    • Chapter 14: Working with Service Users and Carers
    • Chapter 17: Research-Informed Practice
    • Chapter 18: Writing Skills for Practice
    • Chapter 20: Maximising Supervision
    • Chapter 22: Court Skills
    • Chapter 23: Strengths-Based and Solution-Focused Approaches
    • Chapter 25: Narrative Social Work
    • Chapter 28: Group Work
    • Chapter 29: Attachment Theory
    • Chapter 30: Grief and Loss
    • Chapter 31: Crisis Intervention
    • Chapter 33: Social Work Activism
  • Journal Articles
    • Chapter 2: Active Listening Skills
    • Chapter 3: Communicating with Children
    • Chapter 4: Emotionally Intelligent Social Work
    • Chapter 5: Developing Empathic Skills
    • Chapter 6: Reflection and Reflexivity
    • Chapter 7: Understanding Values, Ethics and Human Rights
    • Chapter 8: Valuing Difference and Diversity
    • Chapter 9: Resilience and Self Care
    • Chapter 11: Assessment Skills
    • Chapter 12: Interviewing Skills
    • Chapter 13: A Positive Approach to Safeguarding
    • Chapter 14: Working with Service Users and Carers
    • Chapter 15: Building Resilience in Service Users
    • Chapter 16: Conflict Management and Resolution
    • Chapter 17: Research-Informed Practice
    • Chapter 18: Writing Skills for Practice
    • Chapter 19: Inter-Professional Practice and Working Together
    • Chapter 20: Maximising Supervision
    • Chapter 21: Review and Evaluation
    • Chapter 22: Court Skills
    • Chapter 23: Strengths-Based and Solution-Focused Approaches
    • Chapter 24: Systems Theory and an Ecological Approach
    • Chapter 25: Narrative Social Work
    • Chapter 26: Task-Centred Social Work Practice
    • Chapter 27: Person-Centred Social Work
    • Chapter 28: Group Work
    • Chapter 29: Attachment Theory
    • Chapter 30: Grief and Loss
    • Chapter 31: Crisis Intervention
    • Chapter 32: The Social Models of Disability and Distress
  • Weblinks
    • Chapter 1: Person-Centred Communication
    • Chapter 3: Communicating with Children
    • Chapter 4: Emotionally Intelligent Social Work
    • Chapter 7: Understanding Values, Ethics and Human Rights
    • Chapter 8: Valuing Difference and Diversity
    • Chapter 11: Assessment Skills
    • Chapter 13: A Positive Approach to Safeguarding: Risk in Humane Social Work
    • Chapter 14: Working with Service Users and Carers
    • Chapter 16: Conflict Management and Resolution
    • Chapter 17: Research-Informed Practice
    • Chapter 18: Writing Skills for Practice
    • Chapter 19: Inter-Professional Practice and Working Together
    • Chapter 21: Review and Evaluation
    • Chapter 22: Court Skills
    • Chapter 23: Strengths-Based and Solution-Focused Approaches
    • Chapter 26: Task-Centred Social Work Practice
    • Chapter 27: Person-Centred Social Work
    • Chapter 28: Group Work
    • Chapter 29: Attachment Theory: Examining Maternal Sensitivity Scales
    • Chapter 32: The Social Models of Disability and Distress
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Chapter 23: Strengths-Based and Solution-Focused Approaches

Journal Articles

  • Still doing what we do: defining social work in the 21st century
  • From resilience to resistance: A reconstruction of the strengths perspective in social work practice
  • Effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy: A systematic qualitative review of controlled outcome studies
  • Perceptions of strengths-based child welfare practices among mothers with drug use histories

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