Staff profiles
Modern Social Work Practice
Mark Doel and Steven M Shardlow
We published 'Social Work Practice: activities and exercises for training and developing social workers' in 1993. This ring-binder of materials and supporting literature was based on our combined experience of teaching social work students in class and practice settings, as well as developing and leading many courses for practice teachers. The book was well received and in 1998 we updated it, and published it in bound form, as 'The New Social Work Practice'. This book had the same interactive style as the 1993 book, but we brought the content up to date with new chapters, exercises and activities.
We hope that you will enjoy using the latest version, 'Modern Social Work Practice', which is largely re-written. It uses the same style as its forebears, but we realized that the rewriting meant that a number of exercises and activities which featured in the previous books would be no longer available to our readers. It is for this reason that we decided to establish this website, from which you can download copies of many of these exercises, along with the supporting introductions with ideas about how they might be used.
You may use these activities freely and may reproduce them in paper form provided that the authors and source are acknowledged. Electronic reproduction is not permitted without the prior agreement of the authors.
You can also order the MSWP book online, in either paperback or hardback editions. All online orders receive a 15 per cent discount.
An application form is also available by downloading the leaflet: Modern Social Work Practice. Teaching and Learning in Practice Settings (PDF 1MB).
We will from time to time add activities and exercises, and would be pleased to hear from you about how you use and adapt them - practice teachers, assessors, tutors and students alike.
Let us know how you get on by contacting Professor Mark Doel, Sheffield Hallam University or Professor Steven Shardlow, University of Salford.
Exercises and activities available on this site
Each activity relates to a particular aspect of practice
© M. Doel and S.M. Shardlow. Produce from the website which accompanies Modern Social Work Practice (2005) Ashgate.
Sheffield Hallam University is not responsible for the content of external websites
