This practical guide condenses the practical features of social work theory but doesn't oversimplify them. Students and practitioners can confidently put their knowledge into action and see how everyday practice implements theoretical ideas. It will be an invaluable resource to students and newly qualified practitioners in social work and in related fields of practice, making connections with both classic and contemporary movements in social work
Introduction: practice from social work theory
First contact and engagement
Assessment
Communication, advice, information
Counselling
Resilience, risk, safeguarding
Humanistic person-centred practice
Mindfulness practice
Strengths and solution-focused practice
Narrative practice
Psychodynamic relationship-based practice
Attachment practice
Task-centred practice
Crisis practice
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) practice
Motivational interviewing
Advocacy, human rights and welfare rights
Empowerment, anti-oppressive practice and power
Groupwork
Community work and macro practice
Systems practice
Critical and structural practice
Ending and critical reflection
Ecological and green practice
Feminist practice
