The authors draw on their extensive early years expertise to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the key issues in the field of early childhood care and education.
Presenting counselling skills to those who require a level of counselling for their chosen profession, this work includes topics such as trust, confidentiality, listening and responding, and how to combine counselling with a professional role.
Written for social work students, this handbook describes more than 50 key social work skills. Using case studies and examples, the author demonstrates their creative application in evidence-based practice.
This textbook explores what enables good and effective practice in local authority field social work delivered to children, young people and their families. It sets the context for local authority social work practice and then chapter-by-chapter takes the reader carefully through the social work process.
'Groupwork Practice in Social Work' introduces the practicalities of planning, establishing, facilitating and evaluating social work projects, and contains common-sense guidance on setting up, facilitating and closing small helping groups, inter-professional and other groups.
This is an annual selection of commissioned articles focusing on a varied selection of UK and international developments and debates in social policy, and setting current developments in a broader context of key trends and debates.
This book is written specifically for the HNC in Social Care. The six mandatory units and three SVQ units are covered, giving students all they require in one book.
The authors explain key concepts in language accessible even to those with no prior knowledge of the subject. They detail the major mental health disorders and the issues and implications surrounding them, include chapters on personality disorder and self-harm and provide practical suggestions and strategies for coping with mental illness.
This challenging and sophisticated book offers a comprehensive overview of the concept of recovery from mental illness, while at the same time providing a critical analysis of it and consideration of its application in the mental health services. Provocative yet accessible, this is an important book for students and practitioners alike.
This title offers comprehensive coverage of the discipline of social policy and its central relevance to social work, social care, and related practice in Scotland. The authors discuss the core themes and issues permeating policy making and policy implementation in Scotland, including need, poverty, inclusion and exclusion, and more.
This collection of papers draws together a range of research and development initiatives that emphasize the importance of partnership working and of enabling older people and their families to maintain the highest quality of life.
