Download or read book Continuing Professional Development in Social Work written by Halton, Carmel and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.