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Developing Practice Competencies : A Foundation for Generalist Practice
by D. Mark Ragg (Eastern Michigan University )Edition:
DVD
ISBN13:
9780470551707
ISBN10:
0470551704
Format:
Paperback w/Disk
Pub. Date:
1/1/2011
Publisher(s):
Wiley
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Designed for the generalist practice course, this book uses students' own experiences rather than abstract discussion to build competency and professional identity. Full of rich case examples and exercises, the book lets students visualize and carry out skills in an applied, experimental way. It breaks down each practice skill into subcomponents, allowing students to consciously build up their capabilities as part of a lifelong learning process. Social work students will benefit from this presentation of the core knowledge, techniques, and values essential to the effective practice of social work.
Author Biography
D. MARK RAGG is a Professor at Eastern Michigan University's School of Social Work, teaching in both the BSW and MSW programs, with a focus on practice and child/family courses. His current research focuses on issues of evidence-based practice, sustainability in community settings, adapting practices to achieve a cultural/ethnic fit, working with families and youth, and developing effective interpersonal practice competencies.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | |
| Building the Professional Self | |
| Professional Self-Awareness | |
| The Importance of Self Awareness | |
| Socialization, Self-Awareness and Initial Skill-Sets | |
| Knowing Your Socialized Background | |
| From Socialization to Professional Development | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Conscious Self-Control and Ethical Behavior | |
| Toward a Professional Code of Behavior | |
| Professional Values | |
| The Importance of Professional Ethics | |
| Ethical Principles | |
| Legally Mandated Assumptions and Duties | |
| Resolving Ethical Dilemmas | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Professional Thinking and Knowledge | |
| Developing Our Professional Thinking | |
| The Professional Knowledge Base | |
| Toward Evidence-Based Practice | |
| Toward Applied Thinking | |
| Building Professional Thinking Skills | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Assessment and Service Contracting | |
| Professional Affiliation and the Assessment Focus | |
| The Assessment Process | |
| Developing the Service Contract | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Developing the Helping Relationship | |
| Tuning-In and Empathic Engagement | |
| Tuning In and the Empathic Connection | |
| Tuning In - The Relational Foundation | |
| Tuning Into Client Concerns about Service | |
| Responding to Client Service Concerns | |
| Interactive Engagement | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Questioning Skills | |
| The Power of Questions | |
| Questioning Formats to Avoid | |
| Toward a Professional use of Questions | |
| Building a Professional Questioning Skills | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Reflective Responding Skills | |
| The Use of Reflection in Professional Practice | |
| The Components of Reflection | |
| Cautions When Using Reflection | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Observing and Describing Skills | |
| Challenges to Nonverbal Communication | |
| Using Observation in Professional Practice | |
| Describing Observations | |
| Using Description to Promote Client Work | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Providing Direction | |
| The Need for Direction | |
| Activity Facilitation | |
| Toward Developing Directive Skills | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Using the Working Alliance to Promote Change | |
| Integrating Direction through Transitional Responding | |
| Power and Influence in the Helping Relationship | |
| The Transitional Responding Process | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Motivating Change within an Empathic Working Alliance | |
| Toward a Change Focus | |
| Motivation in the Working Alliance | |
| Toward Understanding Motivation | |
| Accessing Motivating Emotion | |
| Enhancing Motivation through the Working Alliance | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Building Multi-Systemic Working Alliances | |
| Collaborative Models, Evidence-Based Practice and Community Partners | |
| Multisystemic Alliances and Informal Supports | |
| Multisystemic Alliances with Formal Supports | |
| The Skills of Multisystemic Alliances | |
| Organizational Challenges in Multisystemic Alliances | |
| Professional Ethics and Multisystemic Work | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Managing Threats to the Working Alliance | |
| From Resistance to Alliance Considerations | |
| Identifying Threats to the Alliance | |
| Practitioner-Related Alliance Threats | |
| "Other-Related" Threats | |
| Larger Client System Alliances | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Ending the Working Alliance | |
| Socialization Challenges to Endings | |
| The Experience of Ending | |
| The Impact of Ending the Working Alliance | |
| Managing the Ending Process | |
| Orienting Clients to the Past | |
| Orienting Clients to the Present | |
| Orienting Clients to the Future | |
| Critical Considerations | |
| Critical Chapter Themes | |
| Online Resources | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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