Essential Theories, Ideas and Skills for Effective Social Work Practice: An Integrative Workbook

This workbook-style primer guides students in giving visible form to the major principles of social work practice: namely, professional ethics, therapeutic engagement, assessment, treatment planning, treatment, and termination. This book offers theoretical material in addition to 60 practical and experiential exercises. Alongside informational text, each chapter of this resource identifies implications for practice, features techniques that are serviceable in manifesting concepts with clients as well as instruction on when and how to put the skills into effect, and includes a set of 60 exercises intended to facilitate critical thinking and to hone technique. CSWE core competencies are highlighted throughout the book alongside the techniques that would give the competency visible form in practice.

Raquel Warley, PhD, MSW, is an associate professor and former director of field education in the School of Social Work at California State University, Los Angeles.