The Social Work Skills Workbook, Eighth Edition, enables students to develop proficiency in professionalism and the essential social work skills. Each skill supports one or more of the 43 knowledge and value statements and the 31 practice behaviors that elaborate the core competencies in the 2015 EPAS of the CSWE.
The skills also align with nationally standardized licensing exams. The text includes expository content grounded in contemporary research, assessment tools and processes, and strong experiential components that help students get a realistic sense of the field. Case examples, summaries, and skill-building exercises cultivate students' professionalism and expertise as confident, ethical, and effective helpers. Current social issues are evident throughout. The perforated three-hole-punch format can be used as a main text in social work skills labs, a resource for field or internship courses, or a supplement to social work methods and practice courses.
New to this Edition
- The dimensions of professionalism and the social work skills are integrated with the competencies contained in the most recent (2015) iteration of the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
- The appendices contain updated assessment instruments -- including the two-part Social Work Skills Test; the Social Work Skills Self-Appraisal Questionnaire; the Interview Rating Form (Client Version); the Social Work Skills Interview Rating Form; and the Self-Appraisal of Proficiency in the EPAS Competency-Based Knowledge and Values, and Practice Behaviors.
- This edition contains updated and enhanced sections related to social, economic, and environmental justice. Specific topics include mass incarceration, the nation's increasing economic inequality and decreasing social mobility, discrimination, militarization of police departments and police brutality, wage theft, and climate change.
- The social work values and ethics chapter contains an entirely new case study involving suspicion of boundary violations between a social worker and client. Students learn how a complex allegation of professional boundary violations can be investigated, analyzed, and addressed.
- This edition includes new skills related to (a) accessing places of peace and communicating in a language of peace; and (b) linking people to people, people to systems, and systems to systems -- for the purposes of social support, advocacy, and policy-practice.
About the Author
Dr. Barry R. Cournoyer has been a social work practitioner for more than 40 years and a university teacher for more than 35 years. He received his M.S.S.W. degree from the University of Tennessee and the D.S.W. degree from the University of Utah. He is Emeritus Professor with the Indiana University School of Social Work, where he taught for 32 years. A former Associate Dean with the School, he remains interested in student learning assessment and quality improvement activities in social work education. In addition to this eighth edition of THE SOCIAL WORK SKILLS WORKBOOK, he co-authored THE SOCIAL WORK PORTFOLIO and the Seventh Edition of SOCIAL WORK PROCESSES -- all published by Brooks/Cole-Cengage. He also authored THE EVIDENCE-BASED SOCIAL WORK SKILLS BOOK, published by Allyn & Bacon.
