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  • Mental Health, Service User Involvement and Recovery

    As the momentum for personalisation and recovery approaches grows, service users are increasingly participating as partners in all aspects of health and social care delivery, policy-making and professional training. This book provides an overview of service user involvement in mental health, its origins and current practice and policy.Written cooperatively by service users and academics, this book ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Advocacy And Social Work Practice

    by Tom Wilks ...
    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

    $39.99 USD

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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

    $16.19 USD

  • Promoting Equity in Schools

    Collaboration, Inquiry and Ethical Leadership

    Around the world, countries are searching for ways of making their schools more effective for all children and young people. This book offers a new way of thinking about how to address this challenge. It sees improvement as requiring a collective effort that involves contributions from all members of a school community. Crucial to this is the idea of ethical leadership.Promoting Equity in Schools ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Men and the Classroom

    Gender Imbalances in Teaching

    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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  • 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

  • Social work

    Making a difference

    Series series Social Work in Practice
    Social work in the UK has recently undergone its biggest change for 30 years. As new regulatory bodies are working to consolidate social work's professional status, a new training programme, now at degree level, expects increased in-practice learning. Yet until now, students have struggled to find resources to underpin their learning.This major text addresses the new agenda and explores what ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Critical Issues in Youth Work Management

    Edited by Jon Ord ...
    This valuable textbook communicates the complexities and controversies at the heart of youth work management, exploring key issues in a critical fashion. Written by a team of experienced youth work lecturers, the chapters cover topics such as planning, evaluation and supervision, whilst acknowledging the changing structures of integrated services and the impact of public service reform.Divided ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Working with Older People

    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

  • Social work in the community

    Making a Difference

    Series series Social Work in Practice
    Social work in the community offers practice guidance to students, practice assessors and practitioners within a political, theoretical, methodological and ethical framework. The book is written from an experiential learning perspective, enabling the reader not only to understand the ideas and methods but to test them out in their own practice, thereby providing an element of problem-based ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Social Work

    A Companion to Learning

    ′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

  • Understanding and Using Theory in Social Work

    by Juliette Oko ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    Understanding how theory informs social work practice is an area that students can find challenging and complex. This book helps students to understand how theory impacts and informs social work practice. Updated with a new introduction by the author, subjects covered include values and ethics, organisational contexts and putting theory into practice. There is a chapter on the relationship between ... Read more

    $56.69 USD