Social Work Skills for Beginning Direct Practice: Text, Workbook, and Interactive Web Based Case Studies, 2/E Linda K. Cummins, Capella University Judith A. Sevel, Illinois State University Laura Pedrick, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The second edition of this widely popular CD-ROM with student manual teaches students essential social work skills using the latest technology available.
Designed as a practical guide to teaching basic counseling skills, the CD-ROM contains video segments demonstrating four different social worker-client interactions. Students can view the video, stop the action and respond to questions, look up references, or obtain more in-depth information about each skill segment. Common pitfalls for each skill set are noted, as well as examples of appropriate and inappropriate uses of skills and outcomes.
Social work values are discussed in the CD-ROM, as well as communication concepts and principles, interviewing and problem-solving skills, and more. The accompanying student manual allows the student to take notes and complete written exercises about the skills demonstrated.
Features
A practical guide to development of crucial social work skills including basic counseling and interviewing techniques, in a CD-ROM format with companion student manual that allows students to work at their own speed.
CD-ROM contains four culturally diverse case studies with concept maps.
The preferred navigational path on the CD-ROM takes students step by step through the interviewing skills and attending behaviors using virtual clients.
Student workbook, packaged with the CD-ROM, provides additional practice scenarios in box inserts and a place for note-taking or to complete written exercises that can be turned in as homework assignments.
The companion website provides online practice tools such as case notes, treatment plans, client contracts, and cultural assessment. Students can complete practice documents for virtual clients provided on CD-ROM or for clients in case scenarios in book.
New To This Edition
CD-ROM now allows students to test themselves in forming specific skill responses and provides instructional feedback.
New dialogues with virtual clients demonstrate interviewing skills and common pitfalls in practice included on CD-ROM.
CD-ROM now includes conceptual mapping and a guided narrative through out to improve student comprehension.
New case study added emphasizing practice in client environment.
Workbook now includes more space for student note-taking .
New chapter on cultural competence is reinforced by cultural assessment tools found on the companion web site
Additional information on ecological perspective and systems theory added to Chapter 1.
New companion website includes cultural assessment tools, online case notes and space to develop treatment plans for virtual clients.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. An Introduction to Social Work and the Helping Process.
Defining Social Work.
The Helping Process.
Social Worker Roles.
2. Values and Ethics in Social Work.
Social Work Mission.
Social Work Values
Self-Determination.
Empowerment.
Inherent Worth and Dignity.
Confidentiality.
Social Work Ethics.
Ethical Dilemmas.
3. Social Work Practice and Theory. Systems Theory.
Ecological Perspective.
Life Model of Social Work Practice.
Person-in-Environment (PIE) Assessment and Classification System.
Strengths Perspective.
Empowerment-Based Practice Model.
4. The Cultural Context of Practice: Using Interviewing Skills Effectively.
Self-Awareness.
Evolving Self-Awareness.
Cross-Cultural Knowledge.
Cross Cultural Skills.
5. The Engagement Process.
The Professional Relationship.
Getting Down the Basics: Know Yourself.
Confidentiality.
Preparing for the First Meeting.
The First Face-to-Face Meeting with the Client.
Home Visits.
Signs of Successful Client Engagement.
6. Social Work Skills.
Interviewing Skills.
Lead-in Responses.
Paraphrasing.
Reflection of Feeling.
Open-Ended Questions.
Closed-Ended Questions.
Clarification.
Summarization.
Information Giving.
Confrontation.
Interpretation.
Attending Behaviors.
Social Work Skills.
Integrating Social Work Skills and Attending Behaviors
7. Pitfalls.
Detecting Mistakes.
The Pitfalls.
Advice Giving.
Inappropriate Use of Humor.
Interrupting the Client and Abrupt Transitions.
Inappropriate and Irrelevant Questions.
Judgmental Response.
Inappropriate Social Worker Self-Disclosure.
Premature Confrontation.
Overwhelming the Client with Too Much or Irrelevant Information.
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, 3/e, guides students through all stages of the helping process and assists them in developing time-tested social work skills.
By using the text/workbook PLUS the web-based, interactive case studies in MySocialWorkLab, students will gain a greater understanding of how to use social work skills in the context of each of the stages of the helping process – from intake through termination. In addition, individual chapters are devoted to values and ethics; theory directed practice; cultural context of practice; basic skills for direct practice; and advanced skills for direct practice.
The interactive case studies found on the book-specific MySocialWorkLab contains video segments demonstrating different social worker-client case studies across a variety of practice contexts. Students can view the video, stop the action and respond to questions, look up references, or obtain more in-depth information about each skill segment.
Teaching & Learning Experience
Personalize Learning – 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.
Improve Critical Thinking – Book-specific interactive web-based case studies, in MySocialWorkLab encourage critical thinking.
Engage Students – The entire text/workbook is a practical guide to teaching practice skills, designed to engage students throughout; Interactive Case Studies in MySocialWorkLab allow students to interact with virtual clients.
Explore Current Issues – Includes the most recent data, new coverage of ethics, intersectionality, and more.
Apply CSWE Core Competencies – Integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS throughout – highlights competencies and practice behaviors and includes expensive pedagogy. MySocialWorkLab adds value with book-specific interactive case studies, core competency videos and hundreds of competency-based questions.
Support Instructors – Instructor’s Manual and MySocialWorkLab with Pearson eText are included in the supplements package.
The second edition of this groundbreaking, three-part multimedia learning system includes an interactive CD-ROM, a practice text-workbook, and additional student tools and resources on a website.
Designed as a practical guide to teaching basic social work skills, the CD-ROM contains video segments demonstrating four different social worker-client interactions. Students can view the video, stop the action and respond to questions, look up references, or obtain more in-depth information about each skill segment. Common pitfalls for each skill set are noted as well as examples of the most appropriate times and ways to use specific skills in the therapeutic relationship, and information on when it is inappropriate to use specific skills.
New To This Edition
Expanded text material includes three new chapters: Chapter 3: Social Work Practice and Theory; Chapter 4: The Cultural Context of Practice: Using Interviewing Skills Effectively; and, Chapter 5: The Engagement Process.
Expanded workbook section has an increased number of exercises for student practice as well as more space for note-taking.
CD-ROM now allows students to test themselves in forming specific skill responses and provides immediate instructional feedback.
New dialogues with virtual clients on CD-ROM demonstrate interviewing skills and common pitfalls in practice.
CD-ROM now includes conceptual mapping and a guided narrative throughout to improve student comprehension.
New case study added that emphasizes practice in the client environment.
To enhance the person-in-environment perspective across all case studies, case analyses show concept maps that graphically present the multiple forces influencing clients’ lives.
Additional information on ecological perspective and systems theory added to Chapter 1.
New student website includes cultural assessment tools, online case notes, and space to develop treatment plans for virtual clients.
For Instructors
New Instructor’s Website includes an online Instructor’s Manual, an array of practice tools for student use with the virtual clients on the CD, and a rich collection of resource materials to help instructors with class preparation, and homework or lab assignments (see inside front cover for details).
What Reviewers Are Saying About the New Edition. . .
“The authors have been very effective in presenting a good deal of material in a way that is highly digestible. After introducing their material, they offer wonderful, abundant learning exercises to reinforce the concepts they are presenting. The CD-ROM is a useful tool, and my students appreciate ‘live’ examples of the concepts as well as the interactivity.” —Rosemary A. Barbera, Temple University
“I particularly like the virtual client concept. Also, having students develop electronic case notes and treatment plans will help students develop recording and assessment skills. We are being encouraged to use web-based instruction in our courses, and this integrated CD/Workbook/Website package helps to stimulate critical thinking around key interviewing skills.” —Cheryl Waites, North Carolina State University
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Social Work Skills for Beginning Direct Practice: Text, Workbook, and Interactive Web Based Case Studies, 2/E
The second edition of this widely popular CD-ROM with student manual teaches students essential social work skills using the latest technology available.
Designed as a practical guide to teaching basic counseling skills, the CD-ROM contains video segments demonstrating four different social worker-client interactions. Students can view the video, stop the action and respond to questions, look up references, or obtain more in-depth information about each skill segment. Common pitfalls for each skill set are noted, as well as examples of appropriate and inappropriate uses of skills and outcomes.
Social work values are discussed in the CD-ROM, as well as communication concepts and principles, interviewing and problem-solving skills, and more. The accompanying student manual allows the student to take notes and complete written exercises about the skills demonstrated.
A practical guide to development of crucial social work skills including basic counseling and interviewing techniques, in a CD-ROM format with companion student manual that allows students to work at their own speed.
CD-ROM contains four culturally diverse case studies with concept maps.
The preferred navigational path on the CD-ROM takes students step by step through the interviewing skills and attending behaviors using virtual clients.
Student workbook, packaged with the CD-ROM, provides additional practice scenarios in box inserts and a place for note-taking or to complete written exercises that can be turned in as homework assignments.
The companion website provides online practice tools such as case notes, treatment plans, client contracts, and cultural assessment. Students can complete practice documents for virtual clients provided on CD-ROM or for clients in case scenarios in book.
CD-ROM now allows students to test themselves in forming specific skill responses and provides instructional feedback.
New dialogues with virtual clients demonstrate interviewing skills and common pitfalls in practice included on CD-ROM.
CD-ROM now includes conceptual mapping and a guided narrative through out to improve student comprehension.
New case study added emphasizing practice in client environment.
Workbook now includes more space for student note-taking .
New chapter on cultural competence is reinforced by cultural assessment tools found on the companion web site
Additional information on ecological perspective and systems theory added to Chapter 1.
New companion website includes cultural assessment tools, online case notes and space to develop treatment plans for virtual clients.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. An Introduction to Social Work and the Helping Process.
Defining Social Work.
The Helping Process.
Social Worker Roles.
2. Values and Ethics in Social Work.
Social Work Mission.
Social Work Values
Self-Determination.
Empowerment.
Inherent Worth and Dignity.
Confidentiality.
Social Work Ethics.
Ethical Dilemmas.
3. Social Work Practice and Theory. Systems Theory.
Ecological Perspective.
Life Model of Social Work Practice.
Person-in-Environment (PIE) Assessment and Classification System.
Strengths Perspective.
Empowerment-Based Practice Model.
4. The Cultural Context of Practice: Using Interviewing Skills Effectively.
Self-Awareness.
Evolving Self-Awareness.
Cross-Cultural Knowledge.
Cross Cultural Skills.
5. The Engagement Process.
The Professional Relationship.
Getting Down the Basics: Know Yourself.
Confidentiality.
Preparing for the First Meeting.
The First Face-to-Face Meeting with the Client.
Home Visits.
Signs of Successful Client Engagement.
6. Social Work Skills.
Interviewing Skills.
Lead-in Responses.
Paraphrasing.
Reflection of Feeling.
Open-Ended Questions.
Closed-Ended Questions.
Clarification.
Summarization.
Information Giving.
Confrontation.
Interpretation.
Attending Behaviors.
Social Work Skills.
Integrating Social Work Skills and Attending Behaviors
7. Pitfalls.
Detecting Mistakes.
The Pitfalls.
Advice Giving.
Inappropriate Use of Humor.
Interrupting the Client and Abrupt Transitions.
Inappropriate and Irrelevant Questions.
Judgmental Response.
Inappropriate Social Worker Self-Disclosure.
Premature Confrontation.
Overwhelming the Client with Too Much or Irrelevant Information.
The second edition of this groundbreaking, three-part multimedia learning system includes an interactive CD-ROM, a practice text-workbook, and additional student tools and resources on a website.
Designed as a practical guide to teaching basic social work skills, the CD-ROM contains video segments demonstrating four different social worker-client interactions. Students can view the video, stop the action and respond to questions, look up references, or obtain more in-depth information about each skill segment. Common pitfalls for each skill set are noted as well as examples of the most appropriate times and ways to use specific skills in the therapeutic relationship, and information on when it is inappropriate to use specific skills.
New To This Edition
Expanded text material includes three new chapters: Chapter 3: Social Work Practice and Theory; Chapter 4: The Cultural Context of Practice: Using Interviewing Skills Effectively; and, Chapter 5: The Engagement Process.
Expanded workbook section has an increased number of exercises for student practice as well as more space for note-taking.
CD-ROM now allows students to test themselves in forming specific skill responses and provides immediate instructional feedback.
New dialogues with virtual clients on CD-ROM demonstrate interviewing skills and common pitfalls in practice.
CD-ROM now includes conceptual mapping and a guided narrative throughout to improve student comprehension.
New case study added that emphasizes practice in the client environment.
To enhance the person-in-environment perspective across all case studies, case analyses show concept maps that graphically present the multiple forces influencing clients’ lives.
Additional information on ecological perspective and systems theory added to Chapter 1.
New student website includes cultural assessment tools, online case notes, and space to develop treatment plans for virtual clients.
For Instructors
New Instructor’s Website includes an online Instructor’s Manual, an array of practice tools for student use with the virtual clients on the CD, and a rich collection of resource materials to help instructors with class preparation, and homework or lab assignments (see inside front cover for details).
What Reviewers Are Saying About the New Edition. . .
“The authors have been very effective in presenting a good deal of material in a way that is highly digestible. After introducing their material, they offer wonderful, abundant learning exercises to reinforce the concepts they are presenting. The CD-ROM is a useful tool, and my students appreciate ‘live’ examples of the concepts as well as the interactivity.” —Rosemary A. Barbera, Temple University
“I particularly like the virtual client concept. Also, having students develop electronic case notes and treatment plans will help students develop recording and assessment skills. We are being encouraged to use web-based instruction in our courses, and this integrated CD/Workbook/Website package helps to stimulate critical thinking around key interviewing skills.” —Cheryl Waites, North Carolina State University
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