Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording

The second edition of Social Work Documentation: A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording is an update to Nancy L. Sidell's 2011 book on the importance of developing effective social work documentation skills. The new edition aims to help practitioners build writing skills in a variety of settings. New materials include updates on current practice issues such as electronic case recording and trauma-informed documentation. The book addresses the need for learning to keep effective documentation with new exercises and provides tips for assessing and documenting client cultural differences of relevance. Sidell encourages individuals to reflect on personal strengths and challenges related to documentation skills. Social Work Documentation is a how-to guide for social work students and practitioners interested in good record keeping and improving their documentation skills.

• The Practice of Generalist Social Work
• The Social Work Interview
• Social Work Records
• Human Service Agencies: An Orientation to Fieldwork (HSE 160 / 260 / 270 Clinical Supervision Sequence)
• Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series: An Introduction to Family Social Work (SW 393R 3- Theories and Methods of Family Intervention)
• Empowerment Series: Social Welfare Policy and Social Programs, Updated (MindTap Course List)
• From the Front Lines: Student Cases in Social Work Ethics (4th Edition) (Connecting Core Competencies)
• Dimensions of Human Behavior: Person and Environment
• Empowerment Series: Understanding Generalist Practice
• A Brief Introduction to Social Work Theory