This is a comprehensive guide to integrating assessment, learning and practice, reflecting current concerns in health and social care. The authors – an academic, a training officer and a practitioner – present complementary perspectives to bring theory and practice closer together.
Arguing that a holistic approach to learning can fit with a competency approach to assessment, the authors show how this promotes both efficiency and creativity in evidence-based professional practice. They also demonstrate how their combined assessment and learning tool, the ‘signposted portfolio’ can work in practice. This portfolio forms both a summary of what the social work student or health care practitioner has learnt and the foundation of an assessment document.
This practical and thoughtful resource is essential reading for trainers, practitioners, managers and students in health and social care who are seeking to provide the best service to their clients.
Table of Content
PART ONE: INTEGRATING LEARNING, PRACTICE AND ASSESSMENT. 1. Professional practice. 2. Learning professional practice. 3. Assessing professional practice. 4. Learning and Assessing. PART TWO: A SIGNPOSTED PORTFOLIO. 5. Planning the group. 6. The early stage. 7. The work phase. 8. Group processes. 9. Endings. 10. Evaluating the group. 11. Power and oppression. 12. Other perspectives. PART THREE: POSTSCRIPT. 13. Reflection on the exemplar portfolio. 14. The assessor as learner. 15. Generic framework. 16. Critical Perspectives. 17. Sharing and comparing professional practice. 18. Continuing professional development. 18. Employability. 19. Conclusion. References. Index.
About the author
Catherine Sawdon is a training officer at Wakefield Social Services Department. In addition to groupwork, her interests include practice teaching and learning, counselling, anti-oppressive practice and neurolinguistic programming.
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