Effective Practice Learning in Social Work [Paperback]

The Department of Health requires students on the social work degree to undertake at least 200 days in direct practice learning during their course. Practice learning often raises great anxieties for students, agencies and those who supervise and assess it. This book tackles those anxieties, explaining the ways the experience can deliver a unique learning opportunity for the student. It is ideal for students undertaking or about to undertake practice learning, student supervisors and practice assessors, as well as trainers and policymakers within social care agencies and healthcare professions where practice learning is also undertaken.Best-selling text on direct practice learning for degree students This book is a 'must read' for students and agency staff new to the roles of On-Site Supervisor or Practice Educator/Off-Site Practice Educator. It will allay the many fears and anxieties often experiences by students. (Lecturer, University of Hull).A very interesting and informative book which provides some good pointers to getting the most out of practice learning opportunities.Added to the course list for Bachelor in International Social Work at University of G?vle, SwedenThis is useful at different levels.The book gives a great deal of knwoledge and good practice for students and Practice Educators, to create clear learning opportunity for students at the placement. It provides with good value base so required in social work, gives clues for expectations how to use supervision to develop as a future practitioner and provide evidence and demonstrat competencies when on a placement. A very recommended book for both students and practice educators.I like the analysis and emphasis on values at the beginning: additional emphasis on codes in other jurisdictions would have given this wider applicability, ie: in Scotland. The attention to integrating theory and developing reflective practice - and how to do so - is a significant strength given the complexity of this tal#"