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Using theory, research evidence and experiential knowledge is a critical component of good social work. This unique text is designed to help social work students and practitioners to integrate theorizing into practice, demonstrating how to search for, select and translate academic knowledge for practical use in helping people improve their lives and environments.

Presenting 32 core skills, Skills for Using Theory in Social Work provides a conceptual foundation, a vocabulary, and a set of skills to aid competent social work theorizing. Each chapter outlines the knowledge and action components of the skill and its relationship to core practice behaviours, along with learning and reflection activities. The lessons are divided into four parts:

  • Section one discusses foundational material, including self-identification as a theorist-practitioner, the deliberate use of the term theory, and a social work approach to the selection of knowledge.
  • Section two focuses on the adept use of theorizing skills. It covers identifying assumptions, using concepts, formulating propositions, organizing theory elements inductively or deductively, summarizing and displaying the elements of a theory, gathering and organizing assessment information and communicating with clients and colleagues about tentative theories.
  • Section three includes lessons preparing social workers for the construction of useful middle-range theories including causal theories and interpretive theories and for testing and sharing these practical theories.
  • Section four presents skills to develop critical thinking about theoretical knowledge. These include avoiding the misuse of theory, judging a theory using scientific standards, judging a theory by professional standards, critiquing theory in its cultural and historical context and making judgments about the likely long-term impact of a theory.

This key text will help readers to demonstrate their expertise in reflective, competent, and theory-informed practice. It is suitable for all social work students and practitioners, particularly those taking practice, theory and human behaviour in the social environment courses.

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Skills for Using Theory in Social Work
Using theory, research evidence, and experiential knowledge is a critical component of good social work. This unique text is designed to help social work students and practitioners to integrate theorizing into practice, demonstrating how to search for, select, and translate academic knowledge for practical use in helping people improve their lives and environments.
Presenting 32 core skills, Skills for Using Theory in Social Work provides a conceptual foundation, a vocabulary, and a set of skills to aid competent social work theorizing. Each chapter outlines the knowledge and action components of the skill and its relationship to core practice behaviors, along with learning and reflection activities. The lessons are divided into four parts:
discusses foundational material, including self-identification as a theorist-practitioner, the deliberate use of the term theory, and a social work approach to the selection of knowledge.
focuses on the adept use of theorizing skills. It covers identifying assumptions, using concepts, formulating propositions, organizing theory elements inductively or deductively, summarizing and displaying the elements of a theory, gathering and organizing assessment information, and communicating with clients and colleagues about tentative theories.
includes lessons preparing social workers for the construction of useful middle-range theories, including causal theories and interpretive theories, and for testing and sharing these practical theories.
presents skills to develop critical thinking about theoretical knowledge. These include avoiding the misuse of theory, judging a theory using scientific standards, judging a theory by professional standards, critiquing theory in its cultural and historical context, and making judgments about the likely long-term impact of a theory.
This key text will help readers to demonstrate their expertise in reflective, competent, and theory-informed practice. It is suitable for all social work students and practitioners, particularly those taking courses in practice, theory, and human behaviour in the social environment.
James A. Forte is Professor of Social Work at Salisbury University, Maryland, USA.
Skills for Using Theory in Social Work
32 lessons for evidence-informed practice
James A. Forte
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First published 2014
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2014 James A. Forte
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Forte, James A.
Skills for using theory in social work: 32 lessons for evidence-informed
practice/James A. Forte.
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1. Social service. 2. Social service Philosophy. I. Title.
HV40.F6724 2014
361.32-dc23 2013032545
ISBN: 978-0-415-72683-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-72684-9 (pbk)
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To some of the practical theorists, theoretical thinkers, and theorizing practitioners who have inspired this project
David D. Franks, Grace Harris, Joseph Healey, Stephan Lenton, Martin Schwartz, Marvin Tossey, and Manny Tropp
Contents
Section 1
Theorizing basics
Section 2
Applying theory (deconstructive and reconstructive theorizing)
Section 3
Constructing practical theories
Section 4
Critical thinking about theoretical knowledge using scientific, practical, and professional standards
Section 5
Conclusion
Malcolm Payne, author of Modern Social Work Theory
Let me tell you a secret: I feel a bit of a theory fraud. Ive been working on and worrying about social work theory for getting on for 40 years. Thats because when I was doing social work I used to hear about theories that I never had time to explore fully. When I started in the 1970s having to contribute to a lecture and seminar series on social work theory and practice, I thought: Oh good, if Im going to have to explain theory, Ill have to read the books and then Ill understand it better. Later, I was pressurized by a publishers editor into turning something I was writing into a social work theory textbook called Modern Social Work Theory and, a quarter of a century later, it has come out in four editions (Payne, 2014, 4th edn, Chicago: Lyceum), so people expect me to be an expert. As a result, Ive been writing, teaching, giving lectures and presenting papers to social workers and students about theory in many parts of the world.
Why do I feel a fraud, then? When I was first a student at university, philosophers and theoreticians seemed to have this special skill and technique for teasing out and understanding every minuscule bit of complexity in things that Id obviously never thought through adequately. It seemed very daunting. Now people call me a theoretician and I still dont think I can hack that sort of expertise. Ive realized that you can study theory for ever, and never really feel on top of it. As you practice, something happens and all the theory you thought you could use turns to jelly or doesnt seem to apply at all. New books or journal articles that you read seem to add to the profusion of ideas that are available. Even when they mostly seem to repeat what you know, you find that it makes you feel that you have not quite understood what you thought you had a grasp of.
If you feel like that sometimes, too, James Fortes new book is for you, because it shows that it should not be our aim to know and understand all social work theory. He makes it absolutely clear that you have to do it, not learn it. Using this book, instead, everyone learns to be their own theorizer, and they theorize with their colleagues and team mates and with their clients too. Its also clear that not only do we do it, we have to do it, because theorizing is an essential part of doing social work (doing anything, actually, but this book is about how theorizing helps you to do social work well).
I have my doubts about books that try to make theory practical, because I think you have to interact and grapple with the ideas that are contained in everything that you do. But this book tries to help you do both. It says: Theory is not a burger, put together by someone else for you to take away and eat from the package. You do theory, and you do it all the time: you just hadnt realized. This book is not totally free from fast food, because youll probably already have noticed that it comes in nice bite-sized chunks, with lots of helpful tables and pictures that might be good for you if your mind works in structured or graphical ways. In that way, it recognizes that there is not just one way of doing theory, there is the way that works for you.
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