Social Work Skills for Beginning Direct Practice, Pearson New International Edition, 3rd edition

A social work practice skills text/workbook with web-based case studies

This book is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series. This series helps students understand and master CSWE’s core competencies with a variety of pedagogy highlighted competency content and critical thinking questions for the competencies throughout.

Social Work Skills for Beginning Direct Practice guides students through all stages of the helping process and assists them in developing time-tested social work skills.

SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE SKILLS TEXT/WORKBOOK PLUS WEB-BASED CASE STUDIES

• Book-specific interactive case studies in MySocialWorkLab contain different culturally diverse cases with concept maps, preferred navigation path, and online instructor narration.
• A new discussion on four categories of practice — psychoanalytic, cognitive behavioral, humanistic, postmodern — linking to specific therapies is included in Chapter 3.

PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYSOCIALWORKLAB

• MySocialWorkLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
• IncludesVideos, including Core Competency videos, ABC News videos, and video lectures on the history of social welfare with assessment.
• MySocialWorkLibrary contains over 100 cases with assessment
• 200+ Core Competency assessment questions test student mastery of core competencies.
• The Pearson eText with audio files lets students access their textbook from any computer.
• Assessment tied to every video, case, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early–and find the best resources with which to help students.
• All resources are organized by chapter - videos cases, chapter texts, assessment questions, etc. — making it easy use the resources with the chapters.

IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING

• The entire book, including its text/workbook format with interactive case studies, provides students with the basic skills to assist a client and think critically
• Critical thinking questions, based on CSWE’s core competencies, can be found throughout.
• Book-specific interactive case studies contain different culturally diverse cases with concept maps, preferred navigation path, and online instructor narration.
• Includes critical thinking questions and supplemental materials emphasizing every foundation competency and many practice behaviors outlined in the 2008 CSWE EPAS.

ENGAGE STUDENTS

• New ‘Now you try it…’ practice boxes are included in every chapter.
• Basic and advanced direct practice and interviewing techniques make each chapter student-friendly.
• Book-specific interactive case studies contain different culturally diverse cases with concept maps, preferred navigation path, and online instructor narration.
  • Preferred navigational path takes students step-by-step through the interviewing skills, attending behaviors, and common errors in direct practice using web based clients.
• MySocialWorkLabVideos, including Core Competency videos, ABC News videos, and video lectures on the history of social welfare with assessment.
• Connecting Core Competencies: A Workbook for Social Work Students in MySocialWorkLab contains 200+ assessment questions that test student mastery of core competencies plus explanations of each competency.
• Six new chapters clarify each stage of the helping process for students.
• New appendices include professional writing and documentation, HIPPA and confidentiality, sample practice tools, and de-escalating techniques.
• New Culturally Diverse interactive case study set in the client’s home environment. Web-based platform through MySocialWorkLab provides easier access and navigation.
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PERSONALIZE LEARNING WITH MYSOCIALWORKLAB

• MySocialWorkLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals.
• Includes Videos, including Core Competency videos, ABC News videos, and video lectures on the history of social welfare with assessment.
• MySocialWorkLibrary contains over 100 cases with assessment
• 200+ Core Competency assessment questions test student mastery of core competencies.
• The Pearson eText with audio files lets students access their textbook from any computer.
• Assessment tied to every video, case, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.
• All resources are organized by chapter - videos cases, chapter texts, assessment questions, etc. – making it easy use the resources with the chapters.

IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING

• Includes critical thinking questions and supplemental materials emphasizing every foundation competency and many practice behaviors outlined in the 2008 CSWE EPAS.

ENGAGE STUDENTS

• Six new chapters clarify each stage of the helping process for students.
• New appendices include professional writing and documentation, HIPPA and confidentiality, sample practice tools, and de-escalating techniques.
• New Culturally Diverse interactive case study set in the client’s home environment. Web-based platform through MySocialWorkLab provides easier access and navigation.
• New ‘Now you try it...’ practice boxes in every chapter.
• The textintegrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS, with critical thinking questions and practice tests to assess student understanding and development of competency.

APPLY CSWE CORE COMPETENCIES

• Explains why the core competencies are important
• Includes a complete CSWE EPAS grid describing each of the 10 core competencies and practice behavior examples
• Includes chapter-specific practice behavior coverage in the text
• Includes complete core competency coverage by chapter in the text
• Lists core competencies in the table of contents under each heading
• Chapter opening grid highlighting the core competencies addressed throughout the chapter
• Competency-based critical thinking questions tie to both competency application and chapter content
• Includes an assess your competence section to rate how well students understand key concepts from the chapter
• Ties to MySocialWorkLab videos, cases, and assessment, including core competency based videos and assessment

SUPPORT INSTRUCTORS

• Supplements Package - Instructor’s Manual and MySocialWorkLab with Pearson eText.
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