Continuing Professional Development in Social Work

ISBN-13: 9781447307372 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str.

Carmel Halton; Margaret Scanlon; Fred Powell

Opis

Continuing professional development has become an important and widespread practice in twenty-first-century social work. This volume traces its emergence and evolution, identifying the characteristics of continuing professional development, the barriers to undertaking it, and the way social workers view it. Drawing on an international survey of practitioners and interviews with social workers and their managers, the authors provide unique insight into the possibilities and challenges of continuing professional development for newly qualified and experienced social workers alike.

Spis treści

CPD: the International Context; Contemporary Debates in Social Work Education; CPD: a national study; Barriers to Participation; Supervision; Learning and Reflection; Thinking and acting; Conclusion: challenges and futurescapes.