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Modern Social Work Practice is a substantially new text which builds upon the success and style of Social Work Practice (1993) and The New Social Work Practice (1998). Mark Doel and Steven M. Shardlow have reshaped the book to take account of the National Occupational Standards for Social Work, aiming to provide a creative, practical and up-to-date learning resource in line with new practices. This is an interactive book designed to provide readers with an opportunity to engage with key aspects of modern social work practice, while also providing an excellent digest of the most important literature. Each chapter is introduced with an activity or exercise, designed to aid student learning in discrete aspects of practice and building to a complete curriculum for practice learning. Modern Social Work Practice includes much new or extended coverage of topics including: Service users' involvement in teaching and learning Managing challenging behaviour Working with groups and teams Accountability and confidentiality Whistleblowing Working with risk This book will be an invaluable textbook for students of social work in all three years of the new degree. It will also be of interest to practising social workers, especially those engaged in training, teaching and assessing students.