Essential Skills of Social Work Practice: Assessment, Intervention, and Evaluation / Edition 3

by Thomas O'Hare

Overview

Essential Skills of Social Work Practice, Third Edition presents the basics of effective social work practice and helps students develop competence in assessment, intervention, and evaluation. Its broad coverage explores the counseling, case management, and research skills necessary to implement evidence-based practice in contemporary social work. Part I of the text includes three chapters that address the core foundations of social work practice: how assessment, intervention and evaluation are linked; the role of theory and research in practice; and a chapter on ethics. Part II, in addition to explaining how to conduct sound assessments and treatment planning, also examines client supportive/engagement skills, cognitive-behavioral skills, and case management skills. Part III focuses on integrating these skills into evidence-based practices with common mental health disorders and problems-in-living with adults, children, and families. Case studies, inspired by real clients, are accompanied by a psychosocial assessment, intervention, and evaluation plan. Appendix B, "The Comprehensive Service Plan," is incorporated throughout the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190059606
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/12/2019
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Thomas O'Hare (MSW, PhD, Rutgers University) is associate professor of social work at Boston College. He has published widely on co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problems in young adults and on trauma and substance abuse in people with serious mental illnesses.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. Conceptual Foundations of Essential Social Work Practice Skills
1. Overview: Defining and Linking Assessment, Intervention, and Evaluation
2. The Relationship Between Research and Practice
3. Essential Ethics in Social Work Practice

Part II. Essential Practice Skills
4. Conducting the Assessment and Planning the Evaluation
5. Supportive Skills
6. Therapeutic Coping Skills
7. Case Management Skills

Part III. Combining Essential Skills with Individuals, Couples, and Children and Their Families
8. Adult Disorders: Schizophrenia, Mood, and Anxiety Disorders
9. Adult Disorders: Substance Use and Personality Disorders
10. Couples in Conflict
11. Internalizing Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
12. Externalizing Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
13. From Basic to Advanced Practice: Combining Essential Skills into EBPs

References

Appendices
Appendix A: Psychosocial Intervention Scale
Appendix B: The Comprehensive Service Plan
Appendix C: Guide to Reviewing Research Reports

Index

Editorial Reviews

This comprehensive and ambitious text successfully provides an accessible, thorough, and thoughtful treatment of the essential skills necessary for social work practice.... It answers fundamental questions often posed in social work education-''Why is this important?'' and ''How can I use this knowledge in practice?
——Research on Social Work Practice

Essential Skills of Social Work Practice is a well-written, vital, and clinically relevant resource for social work students and practitioners alike. It occupies an important place in infusing evidence-based practice throughout the helping process and across a variety of social work roles and settings.
—Best Practices in Mental Health

...[this book] provides a complete resource of foundation or core social work practice skills. Practice assessment, intervention, and evaluation skills are comprehensively covered through case studies that emphasize ultilization of sound evidence-informed practice and research-driven knowledge to recognize and deliver best practices.
—Social Development Issues

"Essential Skills of Social Work Practice provides a complete resource of foundation or core social work practice skills.... This book is a thorough and well-sequenced learning tool for social work students learning practice theory and application and a review tool for established practitioners. This text continues to fill a major need for a solid but succinct overview of social work practice skills."
—Social Development Issues

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