Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice

Patricia Higham is a registered social worker and an independent social work consultant. She is a non-executive director of an NHS primary care trust and emeritus professor at Nottingham Trent University. She has been appointed Visiting Professor of Social Work at the University of Northampton. She has written Social Work: Introducing Professional Practice (SAGE, 2006).

Preface - Stuart Brook List of contributors Introduction What is post qualifying social work practice? - Patricia Higham PART ONE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS FOR PQ PRACTICE - Patricia Higham Continuing professional development and post qualifying social work frameworks - Patricia Higham flagships for social work reform or sinking ships? Consolidating values in PQ practice - Kish Bhatti-Sinclair Partnerships with people who use service and carers - Patricia Higham and Claire Torkington PART TWO SPECIALIST PRACTICE - Patricia Higham Children, young people, their families and carers - Celia Doyle and Susan Kennedy PQ social work practice in mental health - Ric Bowl Social work and older people, - a view from over Offa's Dyke - Aled Wyn Griffiths, Joanna Griffiths and Averil Jarrett Engaging with the social model of disability - Bob Sapey Learning disability - Kathy Boxall and Speakup Self Advocacy and Eastwood Action Group European skills and models: the relevance of the social pedagogue - Jacob Kornbeck and Eunice Lumsden PART THREE PQ FUNCTIONS - Patricia Higham Inter-professional learning and multi-professional practice for PQ - Roger Smith Research and reflective practice - Eithne Darragh and Brian Taylor Practice education - Patricia Higham and Mavis Sharp Leadership and management - Victoria Stewart, Laurence Taylor Clarke, and Joyce Lishman PART FOUR LEARNING ORGANISATIONS AND CRITICALITY - Patricia Higham Employment perspectives - Nicholas Blinston and Patricia Higham PQ issues, career development and criticality - Patricia Higham