This practice-based text is a comprehensive guide to the skills used in social work and other human services professions across a variety of contexts. Taking a unique approach to the study of social work, it integrates theory and practice throughout to help students build real-world skills for their future careers. Featuring a wealth of Canadian examples and activities, this first Canadian edition is indispensable for all social work and human service students.

Skills for Human Service Practice: Working with Individuals, Groups, and Communities, First Canadian edition

Politics & Social Sciences

O'Hara, Agi

Levine, Kathy

Weber, Zita

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Working with Individuals, Groups and Communities: Skills for Practitioners comprehensively covers contemporary practice skills used in social work and other human service professions across a variety of contexts. A core feature of the text is that it provides students with the opportunity to learn by doing. The diverse experiences of each of the authors provide rich sources of material from which enjoyable yet instructive activities, case examples and case scenarios have been created. This is an essential text for all social work and human service students to use throughout their careers.

Skills for Human Service Practice: Working with Individuals, Groups, and Communities

Skills for Human Service Practice: Working with Individuals, Groups and Communities, 2e covers all the skills and theoretical frameworks that beginning practitioners and students in Human Services need. It encourages a critical reflective perspective to help students to mindfully reflect on their practice, in order to help them deal with the frustrations and difficulties that they will encounter in their practice. It lays out the theory and framework and then looks at specific skill sets in light of the frameworks and theories mentioned in the first half of the book. The two new chapters, Research skills for Practitioners and Becoming and Being a Professional Practitioner, extend the students and help them make the transition from learning to practice.

Skills For Human Service Practice Working with Individuals, Groups and Communities, 2nd Edition

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pockett, Rosalie

Mental Health

Overview. Project 1: Browsing the Internet. Project 2: Handling E-mail with Outlook Express. Project 3: Searching the Internet. Project 4: Working with Web Pages. Project 5: Working with Newsgroups. Project 6: Customizing IE 4.0. Project 7: Researching on the Internet. Project 8: Publishing Your Own Web Page.

Internet Explorer 4.0, Projects 1-8

Business & Money

Processes & Infrastructure

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