Since launching in 2003, Transforming Social Work Practice has become the market-leading series for social work students. These books use activities and case studies to build critical thinking and reflection skills and will help social work students to develop good practice through learning.

Social workers need to have a sound working knowledge of intervention as they are often balancing complex and sometime stressful circumstances with the individual needs of the service users. Also, as there are a wide range of social work interventions in current practice, students will benefit from knowing the advantages and disadvantages of each model and approach.

This book on effective social work intervention will help students apply and integrate this knowledge in practice, to critically evaluate different methods and to choose the most effective in any particular set of circumstances.

Fully-revised to include new material on value-based practice and direct links to the new Professional Capabilities Framework for Social Work, this second edition is essential reading for all social work students.

About the Editor and Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Psychosocial approaches - Trevor Lindsay
Person-centred approaches - Trevor Lindsay
Crisis intervention - Emma McGinnis
Advocacy - Aisling Monds-Watson
Task-centred work - Mary McColgan
Cognitive Behavioural Approaches - Trevor Lindsay
Groupwork - Trevor Lindsay
Motivational interviewing - James Marshall
Family therapy and systemic approaches - Cathy Jayat
Brief solution-focused therapy - Irene Lindsay
Life story work and life review - Anne Campbell
Mediation approaches - Huw Griffiths
Bringing it all together-Integrative and eclectic models - Trevor Lindsay
Appendix 1: Professional Capabilities Framework
Appendix 2: Subject Benchmark for Social Work
References
Index