Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice / Edition 9

by Bradford W. Sheafor, Charles R. Horejsi

Overview

Emphasizes the different techniques needed for successful social work practice. This title is also available as a more affordable e-book with embedded media to illustrate key concepts.

Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice, 10/e demonstrates the unique place of social work among the helping professions. Readers will gain insight into the social worker’s professional roles, guiding principles, and the importance of evidence-based practice. This title provides students with easy access to the most current information on fundamental techniques and useful guidelines for social work practice from the generalist perspective. The 10th edition introduces 12 new techniques or guidelines corresponding to the national social work licensing examinations and the Council on Social Work Education’s list of essential practice behaviors.

Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice is broken into five parts. Parts I and II provide knowledge, values, and competencies for effective social work practice, while Parts III through V contain 154 clear and readable descriptions of practice techniques, presented in a handbook format for convenient accessibility of information.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205838752
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	02/08/2011
Series:	MySocialWorkLab Series
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Brad Sheafor is Professor of Social Work at Colorado State University where has taught a wide variety of courses in both the BSW and MSW programs. He has also served in administrative positions including Director of the social work program, Associate Dean for Research and Interim Dean of the umbrella college that includes social work, Associate Director of the Human Factors Research Laboratory, and Co-Director of the Family and Youth Institute.

Dr. Sheafor has served as a juvenile probation officer, director of a community planning council, and as president of his local United Way. He has been a member of the Exam Committee for the Association of Social Work Boards (licensing), part of the workgroup creating NASW’s Center for Workforce Studies, and a founding member of the Baccalaureate Program Directors Association. With the Council on Social Work Education he has been President, Senior Scholar, and recipient of CSWE’s Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award. He has also been a Fulbright Lecturer to New Zealand and a Visiting Fellow in Australia.

Dr. Sheafor is co-author of 23 books listed with the Library of Congress. In addition to Techniques for Social Work Practice (8 editions with Charles Horejsi), he has co-authored 12 editions of Social Work: A Profession of Many Faces (with Armando Morales and Malcolm Scott), a history of the development of baccalaureate social work in the United States (with Barbara Shank), a book on field instruction (edited with Lowell Jenkins), and book reporting a comprehensive task analysis of social work practice (with Robert Teare).

Charles Horejsi is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Montana having served that university for a number of years as a faculty member teaching primarily child welfare and social work practice courses, as well as being involved with the School of Social Work’s field instruction program.

A licensed clinical social worker, Dr. Horejsi had practice experience in marriage and family counseling, child welfare, and juvenile probation. He conducted agency staff training in more than a dozen states and received the Montana NASW’s “Social Worker of the Year” award recognizing his many contributions to strengthening the quality of social work in that state.

Dr. Horejsi’s research has focused on risk assessment in child protection, issues of worker safety on the job, and on methods of assessment and case planning in child welfare agencies. In addition to numerous monographs and more than 30 professional articles, Dr. Horejsi has authored or co-authored 13 books listed with the Library of Congress. These publications include: Family Foster Care: A Handbook for Social Workers, Social Work Practice with Parents of Children in Foster Care: A Handbook (with Anne Vandeberg Bertsche and Frank Clark), three editions of The Social Work Practicum: A Guide and Workbook for Students (with Cynthia Garthwait), and eight editions of Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice (with Bradford Sheafor).

Table of Contents

In this Section:

I) Brief Table of Contents

II) Detailed Table of Contents

I) Brief Table of Contents

PART I - SOCIAL WORK AND THE SOCIAL WORKER

Chapter 1. The Domain of the Social Work Profession

Chapter 2. Merging Person with Profession

Chapter 3. Merging The Person’s Art With The Profession’s Science

PART II - THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

Chapter 4. The Roles And Functions Of Social Workers

Chapter 5. Guiding Principles For Social Workers

Chapter 6. Practice Frameworks For Social Work

Chapter 7. Using Evidence In The Change Process

PART III Techniques Common to All Social Work Practice

Chapter 8. Basic Communication And Helping Skills

Chapter 9. Basic Skills For Agency Practice

PART IV - TECHNIQUES AND GUIDELINES FOR PHASES OF THE PLANNED CHANGE PROCESS

Chapter 10. Intake And Engagement

Chapter 11. Data Collection And Assessment

Chapter 12. Planning And Contracting

Chapter 13. Intervention And Monitoring

Chapter 14. Evaluation And Termination

PART V - Specialized Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice

Chapter 15. Guidelines For Working With Vulnerable Client Groups

Chapter 16. Techniques For Sustaining Social Work Practice

II) Detailed Table of Contents

PART I - SOCIAL WORK AND THE SOCIAL WORKER

Chapter 1. The Domain of the Social Work Profession

The Social Work Domain

An Overview of Social Work Practice

Chapter 2. Merging Person with Profession

Selecting Social Work as a Career

Establishing Oneself as a Social Worker

The Interplay of One’s Personal and Professional Lives

A Self-Care Program for the Social Worker

Having Fun in Social Work

Chapter 3. Merging The Person’s Art With The Profession’s Science

The Social Worker as Artist

The Social Worker as Scientist

PART II - THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

Chapter 4. The Roles And Functions Of Social Workers

Identifying Professional Roles

Chapter 5. Guiding Principles For Social Workers

Principles That Focus on the Social Worker

Principles That Guide Practice Activities

Chapter 6. Practice Frameworks For Social Work

Requirements of a Practice Framework

Guidelines for Selecting a Practice Framework

Selected Practice Frameworks

Chapter 7. Using Evidence In The Change Process

Conducting Evidence-Based Practice

Critical Thinking When Making Practice Decisions

Guiding the Planned Change Process

The Context of Planned Change

Identifying the Actors in Planned Change

Phases of the Planned Change Process

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

PART III Techniques Common to All Social Work Practice

Chapter 8. Basic Communication And Helping Skills

8.1 Creating an Effective Helping Relationship

8.2 Verbal Communication Skills

8.3 Nonverbal Communication Skills

8.4 Helping Skills

8.5 Enhancing Client Motivation

8.6 Understanding Emotions and Feelings

8.7 Responding to Defensive Communication

8.8 Applying Cultural Competence to Helping

Chapter 9. Basic Skills For Agency Practice

9.1 Written Reports and Correspondence

9.2 Effective Telephone Communication

9.3 Using Information Technology

9.4 Client Records and Documentation

9.5 Dealing with Ethical Issues

9.6 Managing Time and Workload

9.7 Elements of Professional Behavior

PART IV - TECHNIQUES AND GUIDELINES FOR PHASES OF THE PLANNED CHANGE PROCESS

Chapter 10. Intake And Engagement

Section A Techniques and Guidelines for Direct Practice

10.1 Making the First Telephone Contact

10.2 Conducting the First Face-to-Face Meeting

10.3 Clarifying the Client’s Problem, Concern, or Request

10.4 Making a Referral

10.5 Obtaining, Protecting, and Releasing Client Information

10.6 Conducting an In-Home Interview

10.7 Engaging the Mandated Client

10.8 Responding to the Manipulative Client

10.9 Increasing Personal Safety in Dangerous Situations

10.10 Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities

10.11 Addressing Power Differentials with Clients

Section B Techniques and Guidelines for Indirect Practice

10.12 Orienting Yourself to Your Agency

10.13 Selecting and Orienting New Staff and Volunteers

10.14 Orienting Yourself to Your Community

Chapter 11. Data Collection And Assessment

Section A Techniques and Guidelines for Direct Practice

11.1 Assessing a Client's Social Functioning

11.2 The Meaning of Work in Social Functioning

11.3 The Social Assessment Report

11.4 Mapping Client Conditions

11.5 Expanding a Client’s Vision of Changes That Are Possible

11.6 Identifying Client Strengths

11.7 Assessing a Client’s Social Support

11.8 Assessing a Client’s Coping Strategies and Ego Defenses

11.9 Assessing a Client’s Role Performance

11.10 Assessing a Client’s Self-Concept

11.11 Assessing a Client’s Needed Level of Care

11.12 Using Questionnaires, Checklists, and Vignettes

11.13 Identifying Developmental Delays in Young Children

11.14 Assessing a Client’s Mental Status

11.15 Using the DSM and PIE Assessment Tools

11.16 Assessing a Child’s Need for Protection

11.17 Mandated Reporting of Abuse and Neglect

11.18 Referral for Psychological Testing

11.19 Assessing Family Functioning

11.20 Understanding the Family Life Cycle

11.21 Assessing Small-Group Functioning

11.22 Accessing Evidence-Based Information

Section B Techniques and Guidelines for Indirect Practice

11.23 Assessing Agency Structure

11.24 Assessing Human Services Needs

11.25 Community Decision-Making Analysis

11.26 Analyzing Social Policy Implications

11.27 Conducting a Community Assets Assessment

Chapter 12. Planning And Contracting

Section A Techniques and Guidelines for Direct Practice

12.1 Selecting Target Problems and Goals

12.2 The Problem Search

12.3 The Client Needs List

12.4 Formulating Intervention Objectives

12.5 Written Service Contracts

12.6 Making Use of Informal Resources

12.7 Family Group Conferencing

12.8 The Small Group as a Resource

Section B Techniques and Guidelines for Indirect Practice

12.9 Establishing and Changing Organizations

12.10 Agency Planning Processes

12.11 Selecting Change Issues for Advocacy

12.12 Project Planning and Evaluation

12.13 Planning a Primary Prevention Program

12.14 Participatory Action Planning

Chapter 13. Intervention And Monitoring

Section A Techniques and Guidelines for Direct Practice

13.1 Preparing for an Interview

13.2 Information, Advice, and Persuasion

13.3 Reinforcement and Related Behavioral Techniques

13.4 Behavioral Rehearsal

13.5 Behavioral Contracting

13.6 Role Reversal

13.7 Managing Self-Talk

13.8 Building Self-Esteem

13.9 Confrontation and Challenge

13.10 Reframing

13.11 Helping Clients Make Difficult Decisions

13.12 Helping Clients with Harmful Habits

13.13 Helping Clients with Financial Problems

13.14 Helping Clients in Crisis

13.15 Homework Assignments

13.16 The Feelings List

13.17 Client Advocacy

13.18 Client Empowerment

13.19 Resolving Conflict through Counseling and Mediation

13.20 Providing Support for Caregivers

13.21 Indirect Discussion of Self in Small Groups

13.22 Programming in Group Work

Section B Techniques and Guidelines for Indirect Practice

13.23 Working with a Governing or Advisory Board

13.24 Conducting Effective Staff Meetings

13.25 Building Interprofessional Teamwork and Cooperation

13.26 Leading Small-Group Meetings

13.27 The RISK Technique

13.28 The Nominal Group Technique (NGT)

13.29 Chairing a Formal Committee

13.30 Problem Solving by a Large Group

13.31 Brainstorming

13.32 Class Advocacy

13.33 Teaching and Training

13.34 Preparing a Budget

13.35 Marketing and Fund-Raising for Human Services

13.36 Developing Grant Applications

13.37 Organizing Neighborhoods and Communities

13.38 Influencing Legislators and Other Decision Makers

Chapter 14. Evaluation And Termination

Section A Techniques and Guidelines for Direct Practice

14.1 Measuring Change with Frequency Counts

14.2 Measuring Change with Individualized Rating Scales

14.3 Measuring Change with Standardized Rating Scales

14.4 The Service Plan Outcome Checklist (SPOC)

14.5 Task Achievement Scaling (TAS)

14.6 Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS)

14.7 Single-Subject Designs (SSDs)

14.8 Termination of Service

Section B Techniques and Guidelines for Indirect Practice

14.9 Program Evaluation

14.10 The Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ)

14.11 Agency Evaluation

PART V - Specialized Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice

Chapter 15. Guidelines For Working With Vulnerable Client Groups

15.1 The Client Experiencing Poverty

15.2 The Client Who Is a Child

15.3 The Client Who Is an Adolescent

15.4 The Client Who Is a Parent or Grandparent

15.5 The Client Who Is an Older Person

15.6 The Client Who Is Experiencing Domestic Violence

15.7 The Client Who Is at Risk of Suicide

15.8 The Client with an Intellectual Disability

15.9 The Client with Brain Injury

15.10 The Client with a Serious Physical Disability

15.11 The Client Who Is Chemically Dependent

15.12 The Client with Serious Mental Illness

15.13 The Client with a Personality Disorder

15.14 The Client on Psychotropic Medication

15.15 The Client Who Is Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transgender

15.16 The Client with an Eating Disorder

15.17 The Client Experiencing Grief or Loss

15.18 The Client with Concerns Related to Spirituality and Religion

15.19 The Client Who Is Impacted by the Criminal Justice System

15.20 The Client or Family Affected by War

15.21 The Client or Family Experiencing an Adoption

15.22 The Client Who Is an Immigrant or Refugee

15.23 The Client or Community Experiencing an Emergency or Disaster

Chapter 16. Techniques For Sustaining Social Work Practice

16.1 Getting a Social Work Job

16.2 Preparing for Social Work Competency Exams

16.3 Developing Self-Awareness

16.4 Avoiding Compassion Fatigue and Stress Management

16.5 Dealing with Sexual Misconduct

16.6 Avoiding Malpractice Suits

16.7 Testifying in Court

16.8 Providing and Receiving Supervision

16.9 Building and Maintaining Mentoring Relationships

16.10 Consuming and Contributing to Social Work Knowledge

16.11 Improving the Social Work Image

16.12 Becoming a Leader