Social Work Experience, The: An Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare, 6/e (Connecting Core Competencies)

Learn how social workers use their
professional expertise to assist people.

This text is part of the Connecting Core
Competencies Series.

The Social Work Experience: An
Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare introduces
students to the profession of social work including eight major
fields of practice, and provides in-depth discussion of social
welfare policy, its history, contemporary issues, and probable
future trends. The book helps students understand how social
workers use their professional expertise to assist people in
solving a wide variety of problems to improve their lives. There
are three major parts:

The first part, Social Work and its
Context, comprises four chapters which introduce the profession
of social work, provide theoretical perspectives underlying
generalist practice, investigate the concept of social justice, and
explore social welfare policy and its history.

The second part, Professional Practice
Settings, offers an in-depth discussion of eight fields of
practice: family and children’s services, mental health,
health care, schools, older adult services, criminal justice, and
developmental disabilities.

The third and final part, A Look to the
Future, views the profession through the eyes of futurists and
explores the challenges and opportunities that await new social
workers.

A better teaching and learning
experience
 This program will provide a better teaching and learning
experience—for you and your students. Here’s how:

Improve Critical Thinking — Discussions on values,
ethics, human diversity, and generalist social work practice
throughout stimulate students to think critically about varying
issues.
Engage Students — Case studies introduce each
chapter and are carefully developed to illustrate the myriad of
problems that social workers deal with in daily practice.
Explore Current Issues — Includes new content on a
variety of issues, including policy diversity, the environment, and
much more.
Apply CSWE Core Competencies — The text integrates
the 2008 CSWE EPAS, with critical thinking questions and practice
tests to assess student understanding and development of
competency.
Support Instructors — An Instructor’s Manual
and Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank (MyTest), BlackBoard Test
Item File, and PowerPoint presentations are included in the
outstanding supplements package.