Focuses on how practitioners can engage with continuing professional learning and development. This book is written to support and help busy social workers in front line practice, as well as those in leadership and management roles, to achieve the key aims of continuing professional development (CPD) in a post-qualifying social work context.
There has been a recent focus on how practitioners can engage with continuing professional learning and development. This book is written to support and help busy social workers in front line practice, as well as those in leadership and management roles, to achieve the key aims of continuing professional development (CPD) in a post-qualifying social work context.
There are sections on how to engage with CPD at an appropriate level, understanding complex thinking and practices and developing professional reasoning and judgement that can be appropriately recognised and evaluated.
| List of illustrations and activities |
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v | |
| Foreword |
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vii | |
| About the author |
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ix | |
| Introduction |
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xi | |
| 1 Understanding CPD |
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1 | (10) |
| 2 A CPD learning cycle |
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11 | (6) |
| 3 Learning for CPD |
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17 | (12) |
| 4 Reflection for CPD |
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29 | (8) |
| 5 Learning environments for CPD |
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37 | (8) |
| 6 Assessing CPD learning output |
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45 | (10) |
| 7 CPD evidence for post-qualifying programmes |
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55 | (14) |
| 8 Writing up CPD |
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69 | (6) |
| Appendix 1: Health and Care Professions Council: CPD standards and re-registration information |
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75 | (2) |
| Appendix 2: The NHS Leadership Framework |
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77 | (4) |
| Appendix 3: Generic assessment descriptors for level 6 (bachelor's degree with honours) |
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81 | (2) |
| Appendix 4: Assessment grading criteria used to evaluate evidence of practice being developed within an academic CPD unit |
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83 | (4) |
| References |
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87 | (6) |
| Index |
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93 | |
Lynne specialises in professional educational development within post-qualifying (PQ) and continuing professional development (CPD) programmes at the National Centre for Post Qualifying Social Work and Professional Practice at Bournemouth University. Here she has helped design and develop a number of units for both health and social care markets. She facilitates learning about critical thinking, professional reasoning and judgement, evidencing professional learning, leading and enabling others, and service improvement methodology. Lynnes professional and research interests focus on the nature and development of professional reasoning and judgement, and her Professional Doctorate has helped create a unique set of assessment criteria for their development and evaluation within academic written work.
