Essentials of Clinical Social Work
- Jerrold R. Brandell - Wayne State University, USA
Supplements
Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:
- A Microsoft® Word® test bank is available containing multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay questions for each chapter. The test bank provides you with a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding.
- Editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course. Highlight essential content, features, and artwork from the book.
- Chapter-specific discussion questions help launch classroom interaction by prompting students to engage with the material and by reinforcing important content.
- Additional readings provide a jumping-off point for course assignments, papers, research, group work, and class discussion.
- Web resources are included for further research and insights.
The open-access Student Study Site includes the following:
- Web resources are included for further research and insights.
- Additional readings provide a jumping-off point for course assignments, papers, research, group work, and class discussion
Systemic practice clearly set out in easy to understand language and prose. Helpful chapters breaks down learning for students. Learning whilst focused on clinical practice is written a way can be interpreted for social work. The way the content is set out, helps students locate which schools of thought within systemic practice they are in/using. Content in the book was used for a number of sessions in the module. Good basic text. May be adopted as Essential text depending on development of the module going forward.
I found this book to be most interesting in terms of the different chapters on theories and context to the use and understanding.
For practising social workers and managers the book will provide greater insight to these theories that you would have studied at either undergraduate or post graduate level in making sense or rather revisiting with practice experience behind you.
