02948nam a22002657a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100120008308200180009510000360011324500570014926000410020630000290024752021030027665000270237965000260240665000300243265000250246270000300248770000320251794200120254999900190256195201020258020230607162655.0230607b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781412948418  cAL  aEnglish  223a362bFRAC  aSandy Fraser and others9121903  aCritical Practitioner in Social Work and Health Care  aLos AngelesbSage Publicationsc2008  axv,258 p.bPBc24x17 cm.  aThe Critical Practitioner in Social Work and Health Care takes a comprehensive and reflective look at key areas of practice and the challenges professionals face in training and in their working lives. The chapters focus on the skills and values fundamental to the caring role and helps readers understand the importance of being able to adapt to changing demands and expectations.

Key Feutures
Presents a multiprofessional approach, incorporating examples from health, social work, and social care
Offers an integrated approach to theory and practice
Inclludes a range of case studies to illustrate key themes and issues
Provides coverage of core topics such as: ethics, management, supervision, teamwork, interprofessional working, practice with service-users, research, poliissues, accountability

Strongly supports underpinning knowledge for the National Occupational Standards and subject benchmarks
The book encourages the reader to develop the confidence and analytic skills to achieve best practice across all areas of their work. It will be required reading for all those studying social work, nursing, and allied caring professions. It will also be of great help to practitioners wishing to reflect on and develop their own practice.

This Reader is based on a number of updated chapters from Brechin et al Critical Practice in Health and Social Care also published by SAGE Publications.
Sandy Fraser is a Lecturer in Social Work, Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University. He is Chair of the Critical Social Work Practice course. His previous publications include: Doing Research with Children and Young People and The Reality of Research with Children and Young People (both 2004) and co-edited with Vicky Lewis, Sharon Ding, Mary Kellett and Chris Robinson, London: Sage Publications/The Open University.

Sarah Matthews is a Staff Tutor in The Open University regional office in Manchester. She is also a Mental Health Act Commissioner and runs a training and consultancy business. She worked for 20 years as a qualified social worker, latterly as a senior manager.


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