Table of Contents

Chapter one Setting the scene

Chapter two What’s going on? The application of theories of explanation to social work practice

Chapter three Application of approaches to social work practice

Chapter four Integration of theory and approach in holistic practice

 Chapter five

Conclusion

About the Author

Phil Musson’s career in social work has been one of continual development from student to skilled practitioner to training officer to snr. lecturer. He readily acknowledges that social work is a demanding occupation at both emotional and intellectual levels. He also acknowledges a sense of privilege in having spent the majority of his working life as a social worker and latterly as a facilitator in the learning and development of others’ who are or wish to become qualified social work practitioners also. It is, he believes incumbent on the practitioner to have a conscious and deliberate understanding of why and how they intervene in the lives of their service users and he hope this book will make a valued contribution toward that understanding.

Reviews

Your 'making sense of theory' book is truly wonderful. Honestly - it's just what is needed and it will be top of the reading list for the MA 'theories and methods' module.
*Ani Murr, University of Wolverhampton*