Social Work Competences: Core Knowledge, Values and Skills (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803978003)

This original textbook provides an invaluable introduction to the required core knowledge, values and skills in social work today. Within the context of critical debate about knowledge, values and skills, a highly respected team of contributors focus their attention on three key areas: social work with children and families; community care and social work with adults; and probation and social work with offenders.

One of the most important and innovative features of the text is that it offers a practical tool for readers to identify and monitor competences. Knowledge, values and skills are integrated to produce a set of competences, the main components of which are then shown in practice as problem-solving devices against wh

Author: Anthony Andreas Vass
ISBN-10: 0803978006
ISBN-13: 9780803978003
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 04/04/1996
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.38w x 0.74d