Social Work Skills for Beginning Direct Practice : PNIE

A social work practice skills text/workbook with web-based case studies

This book is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series. This series helps students understand and master CSWEs core competencies with a variety of pedagogy highlighted competency content and critical thinking questions for the competencies throughout.

Social Work Skills for Beginning Direct Practice, 3/e, guides students through all stages of the helping process and assists them in developing time-tested social work skills.

By using the text/workbook PLUS the web-based, interactive case studies in MySocialWorkLab, students will gain a greater understanding of how to use social work skills in the context of each of the stages of the helping process from intake through termination. In addition, individual chapters are devoted to values and ethics; theory directed practice; cultural context of practice; basic skills for direct practice; and advanced skills for direct practice.