Description
Book SynopsisDr David Wilkins is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire, UK.
Dr Godfred Boahen is a Policy and Research Officer at the British Association of Social Workers (BASW), UK.
How can social workers develop their critical analysis skills? What role does critical analysis play in the day-to-day activities of a social worker? And can we critically analyse in isolation?
The ability to analyse contexts, scenarios and service users through a critical lens is vital to effective social work practice. Despite this, many social workers attempt to analyse situations alone, missing marks of significance.
This book, written by two senior academics and practitioners who, at the time, were in the midst of their PhDs, offers a basis step-by-step model that busy social workers can use to develop a more critical and analytical mindset. It shows how analysis can be woven throughout the whole process of social work engagement, resulti
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Critical Analysis – What, how and why?
Chapter Two: Skills for Critical Analysis
Chapter Three: Emotion and Intuition
Chapter Four: Approaches to Analysis
Chapter Five: Tools for Critical Analysis
Chapter Six: Guided Case Examples
Chapter Seven: Supervision, Reflection and CriticalAnalysis
Conclusion
