Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills, 9th Edition (Brooks / Cole Empowerment Series)

Great book. I'm giving it a 3 star rating because the used book I got had a weird smell. I didn't like reading from it as the smell bothered me.

The course was hard. Many times I hated not just this book, but life itself. Ripping the hair off my arm seemed more merciful. Frankly this course should be used as a CIA torture device. Or a way to drive people insane. It really is that awful. Unless you are deviant who enjoys intricate things with no right answers just for the sake of fun debate. Blah ha ha. 🤓😜Either way, don't expect any book on this topic to be a dummy's guide. Stay at a Holiday Inn express. Maybe you'll understand it. This book is likely as good as it's gonna get to simplify this course. My book had about a thousand post its with notes. Why? Well you know the image of a dead horse? Yeah they beat it INTO the ground making explanations. And when you're doing, you're wondering where the day went. I can almost speed read and twenty pages took me two days. That's about a chapter. Why? Well I'd read an except, eat massive chocolates, roam the house like a prison, banged my head, dreamed with my eyes open....Still, the authors tried. One book. One course... You haven't learned a thing. But you can sit and listen to professors have a discussion and understand 10%. You can read a scholarly article and say, hey, I recall that word. I don't know how the heck they did the math, but I know they have nifty computers to do that quantitative research. Hahahahahaha.Read it anyway. If you decide you want a DSW, you'll do research til you croak. Or if you desperately want an answer to some complex puzzle, you'll have to align with a senior social worker and do this. You'll only learn this by doing. And even then, a lifetime of doing and you won't perfect it. But you gotta start somewhere.So yes, I hated this book, mainly because the work was just impossibly hard. But that wasn't the books fault. That was the fault of my hard head, exhaustion and difficult concepts. Now that I'm on the other side, I'll hide the book awhile, forget the agony of it, and enjoy reading scholarly articles with more insight and a frame of reference. I can't judge the authors on the material, only their take on it, and it wasn't bad. I don't know anything about anything still, but I can pretend as if I had stayed at the holiday inn express.

This book is literally and metaphorically heavy. This being the first textbook assigned to me for a social work program it scared me to death. There is so much information that it makes you feel like it is the only book you are given before actually counseling groups and families. I give a 0 star to their references to videos through the book that you are supposed to be learning from, unless you buy it new or buy the digital version you cannot gain access to the material!

Mammoth of a textbook. There are some videos that the book references that are not readily available, but I didn't find it to take away from the learning experience. It's pretty in-depth and I think it to be one of the most useful books I've purchased for a class.Much better price online than from my local university bookstore.

Had to buy this textbook for my Practice class in a social work Master's program. It has a TON of good information in it, but it is dense.

I've used this text in 3 social work courses. If you are contemplating buying or renting. This one is worth the buy if you are a social work major. It has a ton of information from the interview process to writing styles required in social work.

So, I didn't really use this item for class but it was still a great order.The product was in great shape and delivery was swift. I had some personal issues (I didn't know my new address so it was sent to the wrong place). However, support was easy to work with to rectify my own errors.I would definitely order from here again!

Required reading for a class in social work. Informative and a nice addition to other supportive readings. A good break down and explanation of Direct Practice. Necessary reading for the licensing exam!

Perfect condition!