Critical Learning for Social Work Students

This book is part of the highly-successfully Transforming Social Work Practice series and is written specifically to support students on the Social Work Degree. It's full of practical tips, case studies, activities and opportunities for students to critically reflect and engage.

Social work agencies want newly-qualified workers who can practice as highly motivated and self-flourishing professionals. To get to this stage, social work degree students need to be critical, analytical and evaluative in their thinking, reading and writing. And while lecturers may highlight this need when marking assignments, there is limited space to explore these topics within an already tight social work curriculum. This concise guide helps to tackle this problem and goes to the heart of these essential skills with clarity and sincerity. Contents include:

Critical thinking

Understanding self-reflection

Asking critical questions

Scrutinising values and beliefs

By using practical examples and interactive features Critical Learning for Social Work Students will help guide you through your degree and on to becoming a fully-developed and critical practitioner. It covers key areas of critical thinking such as developing a clear and logical argument as well as the application of self-evaluation and understanding the 'professional self'.