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  • The Child's World, Third Edition

    The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and their Families

    by Danielle Turney, Julie Taylor, David Shemmings, Yvonne Shemmings, Arnon Bentovim, Emilie Smeaton, Audrey Tait, Helen Wosu, Gillian Ruch, Beth Tarleton, Nadine Tilbury, Claudia Bernard, Jane Barlow, Emily Munro, Katherine Bishop, Ruth Marchant, Simon Hackett, Emma Palmer, Stephen Pizzey, Jenny Gray, Dave Backwith, Michael Murphy, Michaela Rogers, Christine Gould, Barbara Lawrie, Jane Appleton, Karen Whittaker, Stan Houston, Aideen Naughton, David Jones, Liz Hadcroft, Dawn Hodson, Patrick Neil ...
    This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Social Work, Poverty And Social Exclusion

    by Dave Backwith ...
    This book is a key text that helps students link the theory of working with socially excluded people to practice. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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    Social Policy: Themes and approaches is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, providing a sense of the scope, range and purpose of the subject while developing critical awareness of problems, ... Read more

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  • AQA Sociology for A-level Book 1

    by David Bown, Laura Pountney, Tomislav Maric ...
    Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA.- Develop the knowledge required to master Year 1 topics with clear a... ... Read more

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  • Advocacy And Social Work Practice

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    This books fills the gap in the market for an accessible, general introduction to advocacy, specifically aimed at social workers. The book looks at the value base of advocacy as well as emphasising practice and skills such as assertiveness and negotiation. ... Read more

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  • Mental Health

    Edited by Jeremy Weinstein ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic social work practice. On the other hand, social workers have often been excluded from these initiatives and the dominant approach within mental ... Read more

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  • Men and the Classroom

    Gender Imbalances in Teaching

    by Sheelagh Drudy, Maeve Martin, John O'Flynn, Mairide Woods ...
    The teaching of young children has long been dominated by women. This global phenomenon is firmly rooted in issues related to economic development, urbanization, the position of women in society, cultural definitions of masculinity and the values of children and childcare. Yet, amongst the media scare stories and moral panics about underachieving boys, there are surprisingly few empirically ... Read more

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  • Social Policy for Social Work

    Placing Social Work in its Wider Context

    by Karen Clarke, Lorraine Green ...
    Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social workers are expected to work across institutional, professional and even national boundaries in new ways profoundly affected by the changing global context.This insightful book examines how shifts in the ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Mental Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society

    A Multidisciplinary Handbook

    Edited by Dr Suman Fernando, Frank Keating ...
    This new edition of Mental Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society is an authoritative, comprehensive guide on issues around race, culture and mental health service provision. It has been updated to reflect the changes in the UK over the last ten years and features entirely new chapters by over twenty authors, expanding the range of topics by including issues of particular concern for women, family ... Read more

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  • Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion

    Promoting Social Justice in Social Work

    by John H. Pierson ...
    In our highly unequal Britain poverty and social exclusion continue to dominate the lives of users of social work and social care services. At the same time, spending cuts and welfare reform have changed the context within which services are delivered. The third edition of this unique textbook seeks to capture the complexity and diversity of practice relating to social exclusion as social workers ... Read more

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  • Anti-racism in Social Work practice

    Edited by Angie Bartoli ...
    Series series Critical Approaches to Social Work
    Anti-racism has a long history within the profession of social work and its education. Despite an agenda within higher education which promotes internationalization and practice which recognizes diversity, little has been written to address the question of why black African students have a different experience from others on their social work educational journey.This book is based upon the authors ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Improving Schools, Developing Inclusion

    by Mel Ainscow, Tony Booth, Alan Dyson ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    While many books explore the possibilities for developing inclusive practices in schools, and ‘inclusion’ is widely regarded as a desirable goal, much of the literature on the subject has been narrowly concerned with the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs. This book however, takes the view that marginalisation, exclusion and underachievement take many forms and affect many ... Read more

    $66.99 USD