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  • Understanding Suicide

    A Sociological Autopsy

    by B. Fincham, S. Langer, J. Scourfield, M. Shiner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy' ofone hundredsuicides that explores what can be known about suicidal lives. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Texts and Violence in the Roman World

    Edited by J. H. D. Scourfield, Monica R. Gale ...
    From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment, and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The contributors to this volume explore the manifold ways in which violence is constructed and represented in Latin poetry and prose from Plautus to Prudentius, examining the interrelations between violence, ... Read more

    $124.69 USD

  • Putting Professional Leadership into Practice in Social Work

    by Peter Scourfield ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    The ability to demonstrate professional leadership is a core requirement for social work students and social workers operating at all levels. This comprehensive textbook is ideal for any student on a social work course, from undergraduate to postgraduate study, and will go onto serve as a useful reference for more experienced social work professionals. this book engages in the essential discussion ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Social Work Practice with People with Dementia

    by Peter Scourfield ...
    Series series Student Social Work
    Social Work Practice with People with Dementia critically discusses the cultural and discursive contexts in which social work with dementia takes place.This is because how we think about dementia influences how we treat people living with the condition. The book also explains the demographic context that has made dementia a global public health priority in recent years. The different forms of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Getting Ready for Direct Practice in Social Work

    by Peter Scourfield ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    This very practical book will support students to meet the requirements of the compulsory Readiness for Direct Practice assessment. Useful for social work students and lecturers alike, it takes each of the 9 domains that students are tested on, breaks them down step-by step and provides a range of interactive activities that enable them to acquire the knowledge, values and skills for practice ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Children, Place and Identity

    Nation and Locality in Middle Childhood

    by Jonathan Scourfield, Bella Dicks, Mark Drakeford, Andrew Davies ...
    In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use original research and international case studies to explore this topic in depth. The book is rooted in original qualitative research the authors conducted with a diverse sample of children (aged eight to eleven) across Wales, but this data is also located in the context ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Using Advocacy in Social Work Practice

    A Guide for Students and Professionals

    by Peter Scourfield ...
    Series series Student Social Work
    This book explains different types of advocacy and the various ways in which advocacy is used in social work, making links with core social work concepts such as empowerment, safeguarding and rights. Tracing how the use of advocacy is mandated in professional social work guidance and codes of practice as well as in legislation such as the Care Act 2014 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005, this book:• ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • In Presence of My Foes

    A Memoir Calais, Colditz, and Wartime Escape Adventures

    by Gris Davies-Scourfield ...
    This is a wartime escape memoir that ranks with the finest. Seriously wounded and captured at Calais, the Author recovered to escape from his POW camp in a load of rubbish. He was on the run thanks to the Polish Underground for nine months and was recaptured within sight of the Swiss border. Interrogation by the Gestapo failed to break him—his greatest fear was that he would betray his friends. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Work

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sally Holland, Jonathan Scourfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering. They encounter the extreme casualties of social inequality: the victims of poverty, illness, addiction, and abuse; they work with abusers and offenders; and operate in the space between the State and the poor or marginalized. Social work is replete with vivid human stories: the troubled teenage boy who cannot settle in a foster home; ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Social Work

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sally Holland, Jonathan Scourfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering. They encounter the extreme casualties of social inequality: the victims of poverty, illness, addiction, and abuse; they work with abusers and offenders; and operate in the space between the State and the poor or marginalized. Social work is replete with vivid human stories: the troubled teenage boy who cannot settle in a foster home; ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Calais

    A Fight to the Finish - May 1940

    by Jon Cooksey, Brigadier Davies-Scourfield ...
    Series series Channel Ports
    One of the few contemporary accounts of the defence of Calais by thirty Brigade in May 1940, plus a wealth of information on how best to visit the battlefield.This is the story of the Battle of Calais, a short but bloody struggle to delay the German advance in May 1940. It is a story of uncertainty, of taut nerves, of heat, dust, raging thirst and hand-to-hand fighting in the narrow streets of the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Safeguarding Black Children

    Good Practice in Child Protection

    by Claudia Bernard, Perlita Harris, Ravinder Barn, Danielle Turney, Anna Gupta, Joanne Westwood, Prospera Tedam, Elizabeth Lewinson, Jonathan Scourfield, Jean Clarke, Derek Kirton, Carlene Firmin, Jenny Pearce, Stefan Brown, Frank Keating ...
    Providing an exploration of the key issues, this book offers practical advice on how to improve the safeguarding and welfare of black children and young people in need.With contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners, it promotes an understanding of the particular cultural and social issues that affect black children in relation to child protection. It highlights how race and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD