<p style="MARGIN: 0px"><b><i>Social Work Practicum, 5/e,</i>offers a unique integrative format designed to help students develop social work competencies by applying their academic learning to practicum experiences. </b></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">It covers a variety of topic areas and leads students through guided experiences and workbook questions, helping them gain a professional identity, integrate theory with practice, and acquire the core competencies needed for social work practice. </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">This text is part of the<i>Connecting Core Competencies Series</i>, designed to guide students in becoming skilled at the Council on Social Work's core competencies. Each chapter reflects and integrates the latest CSWE competency standards (EPAS). End-of-chapter assessment reinforces this integration, and<b>MySocialWorkLab</b>provides activites and supports the mastery of CSWE's core competencies through activities, tests, an extensive library of videos and cases, and much more.</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p>