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  • Competence in Social Work Practice

    A Practical Guide for Students and Professionals Second Edition

    by Beverley Burke, Derek Clifford, Dorota Iwaniec, Gerry Heery, John Mclaughlin, Joe Duffy, John Gibson, Margaret Fawcett, Paul Cambridge, Greg Kelly, Raymond Taylor, Jim Campbell ...
    Since the publication of the first edition of this classic text, the major reforms in social work education resulted in the National Occupational Standards Framework (NOSF), which requires all social workers to demonstrate competence in a number of key areas.This practical text book covers all areas of the NOSF including social work ethics, residential care practice, child protection, risk ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Social Assessment Theory and Practice

    A Multi-Disciplinary Framework

    by Derek Clifford ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1998, Social Assessment Theory and Practice provides an innovative and comprehensive theoretical and practical basis for social assessment. It examines both multi-disciplinary and multi-professional issues in social assessment and is based on perspectives drawn from all the major service users and oppressed social groups. The book integrates social theory and practice at ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Groupwork Practice in Social Work

    by Sue Orton, Trevor Lindsay ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    The social work degree requires that students clearly demonstrate competence in working with groups. Many social work students will begin working with families, communities and organisations before they qualify and are regularly assessed on this groupwork practice through assignments and observation. Specialist skills are needed to cope in challenging groups and the authors look at how students ... Read more

    $54.89 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

  • Truancy

    Short and Long-term Solutions

    by Ken Reid ...
    Truancy: Short and Long-term Solutions is a practical and accessible guide to dealing with the problem of truancy and non-attendance. It is the first book on the issue to actively focus on solutions to the problem, rather than the causes.Full of practical examples of the latest ways in which schools, teachers, education welfare officers and LEAs try to overcome their attendance difficulties. Ken ... Read more

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  • Professional Values and Practice

    Achieving the Standards for QTS

    by James Arthur, Jon Davison, Malcolm Lewis ...
    The professional code of the General Teaching Council lists eight new standards, each of them analysed here in detail using questions and activities to describe what trainee teachers need to know, understand and demonstrate as they work towards Qualified Teacher Status. Each of the eight standards cover the following issues:expectations, diversity and achievementpersonal and professional ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Skills for Social Work Practice

    by Andy Mantell ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    Social work skills are essential to good practice and more important than ever following changes to the social work curriculum. Students must be able to demonstrate knowledge of core skills within policy, law as well as demonstrating empathy and good communication. This fully-revised student guide, previously published as Social Work Skills with Adults, will help to cement these skills and ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Working with Older People

    by John Harris, Denise Tanner ...
    Series series The Social Work Skills Series
    Working with older people has become an increasingly important part of social work education and practice. Whether studying community care, adult services, human growth and development, or social work processes and interventions, this book will be a vital source of information and help.Working with Older People provides a framework of knowledge, skills and values pertinent to qualifying social ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Child Protection

    Managing Conflict, Hostility and Aggression

    by Siobhan E. Laird ...
    As they intervene in families to reduce the risk of harm to children, child protection social workers around the world are confronting increasingly high levels of hostility and aggression from some parents. Investigations into the deaths of children known to social services have accused social workers of failing to use their professional authority to challenge parents. This much needed book ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Intellectual Disability and Social Inclusion

    A Critical Review

    Edited by Martin Richard Bollard ...
    This book provides a unique insight into the challenges faced by people with learning disabilities trying to access mainstream health and social services and by the professionals who are trying to provide them. The combination of professional perspectives and viewpoints of people with learning disabilities themselves creates an authoritative explanation of why this group of people face the ... Read more

    $35.09 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