Continuing Professional Development in Social Work

Continuing professional development has become an important and widespread practice in twenty-first century social work. This volume traces its emergence and evolution, identifying the characteristics of continuing professional development, the barriers to undertaking it, and the way social workers view it. Drawing on an international survey of practitioners and interviews with social workers and their managers, the authors provide unique insight into the possibilities and challenges of continuing professional development for newly qualified and experienced social workers alike.

Carmel Halton is director of practice in the master’s program in social work, Frederick Powell is dean of social science and professor of social policy, and Margaret Scanlon is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Applied Social Studies, all at the University College Cork/National University of Ireland.