You write something in order that it can be read, not in order that it
can be written - write reports that achieve and illuminate.
The best-selling Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work
guides you through the principles of good writing and methodically shows
you:
- how to analyse
- how to structure the process of writing an assessment (researching,
chronologising, informed data-gathering, putting it all together), and
- how to get this done under time constraints.
The new edition goes further than just teaching writing skills by
exploring the practical and psychological barriers to good practice. It
also looks at how you turn good analysis into useful recommendations -
making it something useful for the family - by applying the same
analytical, critical thinking.
Written in an accessible way and packed with examples and case studies,
this book is both practically-minded and constantly returning to first
principles: reminding you what it is you are trying to achieve and
teaching you how to write reports that can be read by families and
judges alike. You will learn how to write high quality, useful and
timely assessments without becoming mechanistic or managerial. This book
kills the myth of a trade-off between efficiency and quality of work.
