This book provides social workers with a framework for reflecting on their day-to-day practice. Using a social worker's diary as a starting point, it provides valuable insight in to how reflection enhances skills and how factors such as values and emotions can shape social work practice.

Richard Ingram is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Dundee, UK.

1. Introduction The Social Work Context
 2. Dynamics of Critical Reflection and Reflexivity
 3. Communications Skills for Building and Sustaining Relationships
 4. Undertaking Life Changing Assessments
 5. Critically Informed Interventions
 6. Making Significant Risk Decisions
 7. Meetings
 8. Records and Report Writing
 9. Effective Supervision Reflection, Support and Direction
 10. From a Reflective Social Work Practitioner to a Reflective Social Work Organisation.