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Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recordings, 3rd Edition
PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING – You are registering for credits ONLY. In order to complete this course and claim the credits, you must separately purchase and readSocial Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recordings, 3rd Edition, edited by Nancy L. Sidell, from NASW Press, then complete an exam. After you purchase the credits on the Social Work Online CE Institute, navigate to your My Products page and click the green Play button to purchase the publication from NASW Press. Once you have read the publication, navigate back to your My Products page and click the blue Get Certificate button to complete the exam. Please only attempt to complete the exam after you have separately purchased and read the publication.
Despite so much time spent documenting, social workers often have a negative response to documentation—it is the bane of many professionals’ existence. To many social workers, documentation means responding to unnecessary bureaucratic demands and tending to tedious and boring details instead of spending time on their true passion: working with clients. Overworked social workers do not appreciate the requirement for case recording and often delay the task. The phrase “if it’s not documented, it’s not done” is commonly used to encourage better documentation habits, but the particulars of how to do so are less well noted.
Designed to help practitioners build writing skills in a variety of settings, Social Work Documentation is a how-to guide for social work students and practitioners interested in improving their record keeping and documentation skills. This wildly popular, must-have resource provides practical advice on current practice issues such as electronic case recording, trauma-informed documentation, and assessing and documenting client cultural differences of relevance.
The third edition has been updated to view documentation through person-first language, and includes a new chapter on bias-free language selection, with examples and exercises to ensure appropriate wording choices are used related to age, disability, immigration and socioeconomic status, and gender and sexual orientation.
Over 120 exercises throughout the book build skills through application and practice. Designed to elicit written answers, the exercises can be completed individually or with a colleague, supervisor, or fellow student. Peer learners can work through the exercises and provide one another with helpful feedback. A supervisor can provide specific and constructive feedback to promote more polished and professional recording abilities. In all cases, the skills learned will greatly enhance a social worker’s professionalism and ultimately result in better service to clients.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the importance of self-assessment and skill development in improving writing competence.
Note the importance of documentation history and the current state of social work documentation.
Understand basic guidelines regarding best practices in social work documentation.
Develop a plan for improving personal documentation skills.
Implement at least three ways in which personal documentation skills can be improved.
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