The Critical Practitioner in Social Work and Health Care

By Sandy Fraser and Sarah Matthews

The 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 Features

Presents a multiprofessional approach, incorporating examples from health, social work, and social careOffers an integrated approach to theory and practiceInclludes a range of case studies to illustrate key themes and issuesProvides coverage of core topics such as: ethics, management, supervision, teamwork, interprofessional working, practice with service-users, research, policy issues, accountabilityStrongly 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141294841X
• ISBN13: 9781412948418
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.2"