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  • Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces

    Translating theory and research into evidence-based practice

    by Paula Brough, Amanda Biggs, Jennifer Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    All organisations, whether private or public sector, seek to improve criminal justice workplace practice from an evidence base, but often find it difficult to effectively translate research findings into policy or design best-practice interventions. This book provides a direct bridge between academic research in organisational behaviour and the management of workers within criminal justice ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Practice Development in Nursing and Healthcare

    Edited by Brendan McCormack, Kim Manley, Angie Titchen ...
    In its first edition, Practice Development in Nursing made an important contribution to understanding practice development and its core components. Now fully updated to take into account the many developments in the field, the second edition continues to fill an important gap in the market for an accessible, practical text on what remains a key issue for all members of the healthcare team globally ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Essential Skills for Youth Work Practice

    by Kate Sapin ...
    This popular textbook gives students a practical understanding of the broad range of skills they will need during the course of their studies and throughout their youth work career.Topics covered include:- Reaching out to young people- Developing young people′s participation- Working in different settings- Bringing young people together- Practice placementsThe new edition will be essential reading ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • The short guide to social work

    by Robert Adams ...
    Series series Short Guides
    This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Effective Social Work with Children and Families

    A Skills Handbook

    by Peter Unwin, Rachel Hogg ...
    Social work with children and families is constantly in the headlines and social workers′ decisions are subject to ever increasing scrutiny at all levels. This aspirational book supports students and newly qualified social workers and suggests practical ways in which they might thrive, rather than just survive, in practiceWritten at a time when Social Work Reform Board and the Munro Enquiry are ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Understanding Family Support

    Policy, Practice and Theory

    by John Pinkerton, Pat Dolan, John Canavan ...
    Understanding Family Support provides a definition of family support and a clear perspective on the role that it has in promoting the welfare of children and their families.Family support is a concept that has been used in a range of ways to describe various aspects of child welfare policy and practice. The authors argue that this weakens family support as an overarching child welfare paradigm. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Working Together in Children's Services

    by Damien Fitzgerald, Janet Kay ...
    The importance of interagency cooperation within children’s services has been highlighted within recent government strategy, including the Every Child Matters agenda, the development of Children’s Centres and the expansion of Extended Schools. Following tragic cases such as Victoria Climbie, the need for effective multi-disciplinary teamwork and interagency co-operation across all education and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Nursing Leadership

    by Sandra Speedy, RN, BA(Hons), DipEd, MURP, EdD, MAPS, FANZCMHN, John Daly, RN,PhD,DrNurs(Hon.), FACN, FAAN, FFNMRCSI, Debra Jackson, AO, RN, CommNsgCert, DipAppSci(Nsg), BHlthSc(Nsg), MN(Ed), PhD, FCNA, SFHEA ...
    Nursing Leadership covers contemporary concepts in leadership and management and their application to nursing practice. In addition to covering the fundamentals, a wide range of current topics are addressed including: change management, contemporary approaches to nursing care delivery & health outcomes evaluation; developing & enhancing quality in nursing practice; research based practice; ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Leadership and Strategic Management in Education

    by Tony Bush, Marianne Coleman ...
    Series series Centre for Educational Leadership and Management
    `This is one of very few texts to give recognition to the difficulties in large institutions and to give practical advice about the degree to which collegiality can be built into strategic planning. The authors provide an overview of all aspects of leadership within education, giving ample references within each section for more detailed study′ - Mentoring and Tutoring`The book would constitute a ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Social Work

    A Companion to Learning

    Edited by Karen Postle, Mark E F Lymbery ...
    ′This engaging and stimulating book is well placed to become a key text in many student social workers′ redaing lists′ - Journal of Interprofessional Care`[An] excellent book, abounding with conceptual insights, bursting with research and evidence-based reasoning, and pretty comprehensive in the spread of topics. [It] contains plenty of though-provoking material in nice sized chunks that ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Health Promotion Settings

    Principles and Practice

    Edited by Angela Scriven, Margaret Hodgins ...
    Health Promotion Settings combines the theoretical discourse of the settings approach, covering a wide range of fundamental principles, concepts and policy issues, with real life examples of settings, including workplaces, schools, neighbourhood, cities and prisons. Frameworks and processes that are actively shaping health promotion in settings in the 21st Century are documented and the ideas and ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Multi-agency Working in the Early Years

    Challenges and Opportunities

    by Michael Gasper ...
    What does working in partnership look like in practice?Getting multi-agency working right is an exciting but challenging goal in early years care and education; this book suggests ways to draw together the different professional ideas, methods and targets.Enhancing the delivery of services to children, parents and communities is essential if we are to address the detrimental effects of poverty and ... Read more

    $70.19 USD