Interprofessional Social Work: Effective Collaborative Approaches

Since launching in 2003, Transforming Social Work Practice has become the market-leading series for student social workers. Now the books have been updated to include the Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Work, making them more relevant to students and more integrated into social work practice. These books have a greater emphasis on current thinking and policy, and include more opportunities for students to reflect on their own practice and study.

Interprofessional learning is a core aspect of the social work degree and central to students' understanding of effective successful practice. All social work students are required to undertake specific learning and assessment in partnership working and information sharing and this fully-revised second edition explores this by looking at how social work collaborates with youth work, teaching, the legal profession, carers, service users and their families and other health professionals. There are updated sections that look in detail at SCIE learning tools while the text is supported by a range of critical activities such as case studies, critical reflection points and research summaries.

The Series Editors

Professor Jonathan Parker is Director of the Centre for Social Work and Social Policy Research at Bournemouth University. He is currently Vice-Chair of the Joint University Council Social Work Education Committee.

Greta Bradley is a senior lecturer in social work at the University of York. Her academic interests are in community care and workforce studies in social work. Her most recent research is on aspects of sustainable practice in social work. She is former editor of Practice.

Anne Quinney is Senior Lecturer in Social Work Education at Bournemouth University, where an interprofessional curriculum has been introduced. She is engaged in consultancy work with the Social Care Institute for Excellence and is Editor of the Journal Practice. Anne is a committed e-learning enthusiast and previously worked as a teacher in Sudan and as a social worker and youth worker in the UK.
Trish Hafford-Letchfield is the Director of Programmes for Social Work at Middlesex University and is very active in their Interprofessional Leadership programme. Trish is the author of a number of publications in leadership, management, organisational development and the lifelong learning of older people using social care. Trish has a special interest in the arts and what it has to offer the promotion of active learning and co-production in the learning process.