Incorporates Direct and Indirect Practice Interventions - This title describes more than 100 techniques and guidelines that social workers use when servicing clients. Students will learn how these techniques are used to provided both direct and indirect services during the five phases of the planned change process: intake and engagement, data collections and assessment, planning and contracting, intervention and monitoring, and termination and evaluation.
Divides Pedagogy into Five Parts - The book is broken into several parts to help students better understand the connections between social work theory and practice.
- Parts I - II provide a synthesis of prerequisite knowledge, values, and competencies for effective social work practice.
- Parts III - V contain 154 clear and readable descriptions of practice techniques presented in a handbook format for convenient accessibility of information. Each item (technique or guideline) includes discussion of the practice tool and, when appropriate, useful illustrations of its application.
Special Issues - Chapter 15 describes approaches specifically tailored for social workers serving 23 different client populations or specific issues. Another 12 guidelines are described for strengthening and sustaining one's successful social work practice. This helps sensitise students and new workers to special issues and situations they may encounter.

Techniques and Guidelines for Social Work Practice, 10th edition