Social work practice placements : critical and reflective approaches /
Sue Jones.
- xix, 136 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Transforming social work practice .
- Transforming social work practice. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preparation for your social work placement -- Introduction -- The placement structure -- Reflecting on skills for placement -- Developing your resilience while on placement -- Placement knowledge and skills -- More about skills -- Placement aims -- Reflecting on and rethinking placement offers -- Understanding your placement through an organisational journey -- Introduction -- Organisational games (cultural practices) -- Placement organisational cultures -- Critical questions about placement cultures -- And now the paper work -- Assessing the documentation -- Challenging agency documentation through the application of appreciative inquiry (AI) and emotional intelligence (EI) -- Developing an emotional intelligence (EI) repertoire in professional competence -- Organisational issues in multi-agency practice -- Multi-disciplinary skills within organisational policy -- Critical practice within organisations -- Legislative rights -- Policy and procedure -- Rights -- Embedding critical placement learning -- Introduction -- In the beginning -- People who will support your learning while in placement -- Creating your own fertile learning environment in placement -- Using theory and critical thinking in your placement practice -- Theories to help us understand the individual or situation -- Methods -- Strategies -- Frameworks -- Models -- Deepening critical reflection -- Developing learning opportunities to support your critical development -- Creating your own critical learning questions while in placement -- Preparing for and using supervision -- Introduction -- What is student supervision in social work? -- Who will supervise me? -- Why is supervision in social work so important? -- Preparing for supervision -- Analysing and critiquing documents used for supervision -- Managing the complexity of supervision -- Chapters Completing your portfolio -- Introduction -- What is meant by 'evidence'? -- What sort of evidence should be included in the portfolio? -- Sources of evidence -- Preparing to compile the portfolio of evidence -- Deepening the evidence -- Evidencing the HCPC code of ethics for students -- Gathering evidence moving towards the end of placement -- Confidentiality and the portfolio evidence -- Moving on: NQSW, ASYE and all that -- Introduction -- Moving on as an NQSW -- Suggested evidence for the ASYE -- Linking the ASYE evidence to critical events -- Portfolio tasks linked to technical rationalism -- Continuing professional development as a career requirement. Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 ch. 2 ch. 3 ch. 4 ch. 6