Surviving your social work placement.
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| Author / Creator: | Lomax, Robert, author. |
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| Edition: | Second edition / Robert Lomax, Karen Jones. |
| Imprint: | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. |
| Description: | xxviii, 180 pages ; 19 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9864048 |
Table of Contents:
- Brief contents
- Full contents
- Exercises
- Figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Meet the authors
- Introduction
- 1. Getting started
- The role of placements in social work training
- Preparing for placement
- Organising the placement
- Waiting to hear about your placement
- Planning to begin your placement
- Home and family life
- Making contact with your placement for the first time
- Practice placements in your own agency
- Getting started on your placement
- Your first few days
- Getting to know the people involved in your placement
- Induction
- Office culture - the things that are not written down
- Finally
- Further reading and resources
- 2. Learning for practice
- Celebrating your strengths and acknowledging your learning needs
- Strengths and needs analysis
- Using your Learning Action Plan
- Your learning agreement
- Taking control of your learning
- Watch what's going on around you
- Ask questions and talk to people
- Read as widely as you can
- Make good use of your study time
- Models of learning
- Honey and Mumford's learning styles
- Race's ripples
- Kolb's learning cycle
- Getting to grips with reflection
- What is reflection?
- Models of reflection
- Gibbs's model
- Fook's model
- Critical reflection
- Tools for learning
- Reflective diaries
- Knowledge maps
- Critical Incident Analysis
- Finally
- Further reading and resources
- 3. Using theory and knowledge in practice
- Theory in everyday life
- The importance of theory for social work practice
- What is theory for social work?
- Coping with contradictions between theories
- Developing a narrative of theoretical knowledge
- Using theory in practice
- Formal and informal theoretical knowledge
- Formal theoretical knowledge
- Informal theoretical knowledge
- Fitting it all together: theoretical knowledge for practice
- Other kinds of knowledge for social work
- Procedural knowledge
- Legal and policy knowledge
- Empirical knowledge
- Knowledge about services and resources
- Fitting different kinds of knowledge into the jigsaw
- Linking knowledge, skills and values
- Skills for social work practice
- Values for social work practice
- Finally
- Further reading and resources
- 4. Values and ethics in practice
- Some definitions
- Statements and codes of ethics for social work practice
- International codes of ethics
- UK codes of ethics
- Demonstrating values and ethics on placement
- Personal values
- Your values and where they come from
- Changing personal values
- Professional values
- Professional behaviour
- Unprofessional behaviour
- Professional boundaries
- Professional pitfalls
- Professional ethical dilemmas
- Social work values: the big picture
- Power and social justice
- Power
- Social justice
- Finally
- Further reading and resources
- 5. Keeping service users central to your learning and practice
- The context of service user involvement and participation in social work
- Ideological approaches
- Models of service user participation
- The Ladder Model
- The Bridge Model
- The Hub and Spoke Model
- The Service User Question
- Service user feedback
- The experience of giving feedback
- Getting feedback
- Service user participation and social work values
- Finally
- Further reading and resources
- 6. Making the most of supervision
- What is supervision?
- The four functions of supervision
- Organising supervision
- Planning
- Supervision agreement
- Supervision records
- Group supervision
- Undertaking your placement in your own agency
- Working with practice educators and practice supervisors
- Informal supervision
- Ground rules for informal supervision
- Working together
- Power dynamics in supervision
- Using feedback
- Disappointment and difficulties
- Finally
- Further reading and resources
- 7. Being assessed
- Assessment
- What is assessment?
- Approaches to assessment used in the UK
- Using the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF)
- Holistic assessment
- Social work values
- Statutory tasks and contrasting placements
- Placement people and structure
- The practice learning team
- Key meetings
- Identifying examples of your work
- Assessed observations of practice
- Service user and carer feedback
- Practice documents
- Reflective writing
- Other types of examples from your placement
- Identifying examples of your work
- How do I know if my work is good enough?
- What if you think you might not pass your placement?
- Finally
- Further reading and resources
- 8. Managing stress on placement
- What is stress?
- What changes occur in your body when you are stressed?
- Why can placements be stressful?
- Avoiding stress
- Looking after your basic needs
- Looking after yourself on placement
- Managing your stress
- Identifying what is contributing to your stress
- Changing how you work with the source of the stress
- Managing sources of stress that are hard to change
- What if you feel you need extra help?
- Who may be able to help?
- Finally
- Further reading and resources
- 9. Troubleshooting
- Resolving issues related to practice learning
- Team and agency issues
- University-related issues
- Personal issues and taking time out from placement
- Problem solving on placement
- Unresolved placement issues
- Not succeeding on placement
- What happens next?
- Finally
- 10. Moving on from your placement
- Planning and achieving positive endings
- Moving on
- Coping with mixed emotions
- Positive endings: service users and carers
- Positive endings: your practice educator
- Positive endings: the team
- Positive endings: yourself
- Assessing your professional development
- Professional development plan
- Returning to university
- Preparing for your first social work job
- Finally
- Further reading and resources
- Appendix
- Appendix A. Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Workers (England)
- Appendix B. HCPC Standards of Proficiency (England)
- Appendix C. Standards in Social Work Education (Scotland)
- National Occupational Standards for Social Work (Wales)
- National Occupational Standards for Social Work (Northern Ireland)
- References
- Index
