Courtroom Skills for Social Workers (Transforming Social Work Practice)

Courtroom Skills for Social Workers (Transforming Social Work Practice)

by RichardSeymour (Author), Clare Seymour (Author)

Synopsis

This new text will build on Courtroom Skills for Social Workers, by updating the legal and research content and strengthening the material on recording. There will also be additional contributions from service users and more practice examples, so as to make the book interesting and relevant for qualified social workers. It will assist social workers in meeting their CPD requirements for continuing registration and also offer a framework for short in-service training courses on court skills and recording, both areas in which social workers' performance comes under the scrutiny of other professionals.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 166
Edition: 1
Publisher: Learning Matters
Published: 28 Jun 2007

ISBN 10: 1844451232
ISBN 13: 9781844451234

Media Reviews
This is essential reading for all students, as well as newly qualified and experienced social workers (Learning and Development Adviser, Swindon Borough Council)
Author Bio
Clare Seymour is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Anglia Ruskin University. She is involved in teaching social work law, communication and interviewing skills, professional accountability and reflective practice to social work students at undergraduate and master's level. Her social work experience includes 16 years of local authority social work, latterly in a child care team. Richard Seymour is a senior circuit judge assigned to the Queens' Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. He has a first class honours degree in law from Cambridge University. He was in practice as a barrister until 2000, was appointed QC in 1991, and has been a president of Mental Health Review Tribunals. He has jointly edited Kemp & Kemp, The Quantum of Damages, 4th ed, 1975.