Reflective Practice for Social Workers : A Handbook for Developing Professional Confidence

Reflective practice is at the heart of becoming a competent and confident social work professional. This book demystifies the reflective process and provides a straight forward knowledge base to enhance professional development.

Whether you are a qualifying social work student, a practitioner with supervisory responsibilities, or are engaged in professional post qualifying education and training, this book will help you to understand and evidence your development as a reflective practitioner, and guide the assessment of others? ability to reflect.

Topics covered include:
- How to develop a professional identity and an understanding of professional culture
- A summary of key theoretical explanations of the concepts of `reflection? and `reflective practice?
- The significance of Emotional Intelligence for social work practice and how the reflective process can enhance interpersonal and intrapersonal competence
- How to overcome common obstacles to reflective practice, including low motivation and lack of confidence in your reflective abilities
- How to write reflectively in order to evidence development of reflective practice to others
- How to create a learning environment that enables growth and development through reflection and provides accurate assessment outcomes

Written in a straightforward and engaging way, with reflective activities and resources throughout, this key resource will develop your knowledge, understanding and application of reflective practice.