Introduction Core Skills Person-Centred Communication Active Listening Skills Communicating with Children Emotionally Intelligent Social Work Developing Empathic Skills Reflection and Reflexivity Understanding Values, Ethics and Human Rights Valuing Difference and Diversity Skills for Assessment and Interventions Assessment Skills Interviewing Skills A Positive Approach to Safeguarding: Risk in Humane Social Work Working with Service Users and Carers Building Resilience Conflict Management and Resolution Research-Informed Practice Writing Skills for Practice Inter-Professional Practice and Working Together Maximising Supervision Review and Evaluation Court Skills Key Social Work Theories and Methods Strengths-Based and Solution-Focused Approaches Systems Theory and an Ecological Approach Attachment Theory: Examining Maternal Sensitivity Scales Person-Centred Social Work Group Work Task-Centred Social Work Practice Crisis Intervention The Social Models of Disability and Distress