Practice Education in Social Work

Achieving Professional Standards

Paula Beesley, Sue Taplin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040375310
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

This best-selling book is an invaluable guide for social workers undertaking learning and assessment to gain and maintain Stage 1 or 2 qualified practice educator status and for those involved in facilitating the mentoring, learning, support, assessment and CPD of practice educators.

Now fully updated to reflect the changing social work placement landscape and the BASW refreshed (2022) Practice Educator Professional Standards (PEPS), it covers all key areas within Practice Educator training and offers guidance on the application of key skills and knowledge in supporting, assessing and teaching social work students and managing the placement. It will particularly assist Practice Educators to:

• Understand, prepare for and provide appropriate learning opportunities
• Supervise and develop social work students effectively
• Understand holistic assessment of practice; assessing in line with capability levels expected at the end of first and final placement
• Deal with weaker or failing students
• Prepare for the PEPS qualification process.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Meet the authors
• Foreword
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Preparation and planning
• Chapter 3 Enabling learning
• Chapter 4 Critical reflection and values
• Chapter 5 Reflective supervision
• Chapter 6 Assessment
• Chapter 7 Dealing with placement challenges
• Chapter 8 Practice Educator Professional Standards for social work
• Appendix 1: Sample supervision agreement
• Appendix 2: Honey and Mumford’s learning styles
• References
• Index