How to Be a Social Worker
Developing Your Professional Identity
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Description
This textbook equips social work students with the tools to develop a social work identity. It provides a critical examination of the knowledge base of social work – from human growth and development to social work research – and explores how a practitioner's own values, principles and experience combine to shape their social work identity and practice alongside this.
Linked to a range of core modules on pre-qualifying social work programmes but written also for those practitioners committed to nurturing their own social work identities, this is a must-have text from one of social work's most up-and-coming authors that brings together all areas of the classroom and practice curriculum to make learning a novel, creative and interactive process.
New to this edition:
· Addresses themes and issues that have become more relevant in contemporary practice such as anti-racism, ageism, adultification, AI and digital social work, gender identity, sexuality and the political context of social work.
· More on task-centred practice, relationship-based practice, trauma-informed practice and anti-oppressive practice.
· New content on bureaucracy, burnout and self-care, spirituality, as well as grief and loss.
· Discussion on responding to reluctant service users or challenging situations.
· New reflections and case study examples.
Table of Contents
Chapter Two - Human Development
Chapter Three - Communication Skills
Chapter Four - Social Work Theory
Chapter Five - Everyday Ethics
Chapter Six - Practice Learning in Organisational Settings
Chapter Seven - Research in Social Work
Chapter Eight - 'Doing' Social Work: Constituting the Professional Self
Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Oct 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 3rd |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350541924 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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