Student's Guide to Placements in Health and Social Care Settings

Simon Williams has over twenty years’ experience of Youth and Community Work, and six years’ experience in teaching at higher education, during which he has been a placement coordinator, working with both agencies and students to develop the best student experience on placement possible. Diana Conroy has wide experience of working in wellbeing, health and social care. She has worked as a social worker and within the NHS. She is Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy teaching modules on understanding health and social care systems, creativity and meta-awareness and the unconscious.

• Part 1: Pre Placement 1. Being Prepared 2. Reflection 3. Emotional Resilience 4. Anti-Oppressive Practice Part 2: During Placement 5. Working with in the context of an agency 6. Placements in challenging settings 7. Managing your placement and supervision 8. Technology and digital literacy 9. Resource of self Part 3: Advanced Skills 10. Inter-professional learning and working 11. Involving others 12. Managing projects 13. Measuring impact Glossary Index

A student’s guide to placements in health and social care settings, from theory to practice is edited by Williams and Conroy and published by Critical Publishing. Interestingly, it does not feel like an edited book, as there is a common voice across all the chapters. The book is aimed at any student undertaking a placement in either a healthcare or social care setting which works well, as it does not try to prescribe what the placement should look like. Instead, the book focuses on the holistic underpinning principles of experiential placement learning to be able to combine the student’s knowledge and skills. As such, this accessible book is a must read for any health or social care student who wants to engage in deep learning whilst on placement.Paula BeesleySenior Lecturer in Social Work, Leeds Beckett University