Social Work category: 3462 books
by David Neville, Liz King
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Following on from the success of Promoting Positive Parenting, David Neville, Dick Beak and Liz King have now written this book which looks at the particular problems and challenges associated with working with parents of teenagers. The Centre for Fun and Families (from which the authors hail) is...
Understanding Drug Misuse
Models of Care and Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Key to understanding drug misuse is an awareness of the full range of models that seek to define, explain and treat the problem. This book covers the full breadth of medical, social and psychological approaches to drug use, while retaining focus on the one question which is seldom asked: What do...
Critical Resilience for Nurses
An Evidence-Based Guide to Survival and Change in the Modern NHS
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The nursing profession is under pressure. Financial demands, student debt, the target culture, political scrutiny in the wake of major care scandals and increasing workloads are all taking their toll on professional morale and performance. This timely book considers the meaning of resilience in this...
by Karen Healy, Joan Mulholland
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
As a social worker, you are required to communicate in writing for a wide range of purposes and audiences.
This text guides you through all you need to know to develop your social work writing skills:
Essential elements of written communication
Writing skills in daily practice
Macro-practice...
Domestic Violence Perpetrators
Evidence-Informed Responses
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Domestic violence is a serious, widespread public, social and health problem that affects the lives of many women, children and men. There is also evidence to suggest it has one of the highest rates of recidivism. This comprehensive book provides an overview of what the research tells us about the...
by Lee Ann Hoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
First published in 1990, this book is basedon a field study of domestic abuse victims and their social network members. In a life history perspective, using values and network analysis, it uncovers the social context of a ‘secret’ crime against women and reveals the relationship between personal...
Child protection
Managing conflict, hostility and aggression
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
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...
Governing Child Sexual Abuse
Negotiating the Boundaries of Public and Private, Law and Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The turn of the 1990s saw a number of high profile public inquiries into the handling of child sexual abuse cases in Great Britain. In examines the implications of these inquiries on the regulation of relationships between families and the state, author Samantha Ashenden brings a number of contemporary...
Promoting Family Change
The optimism factor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
'This book heralds an exciting new chapter in the history of family-centred practice. It takes us a long way down the road toward the destination of strength-based family work.'
From the foreword by Associate Professor Dorothy Scott, University of Melbourne
Life can be a struggle for...
by Harris, Pete, Seal
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book draws on the findings of a two-year European research project to offer answers to the 'problem' of how to respond to violence involving young people that continues to challenge youth workers and policy makers. 'Responding to violence through youth work' combines elements of critical theory,...
by Brian Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Social workers and health professionals are often placed in situations where they are verbally or physically threatened by service users and others.This book will help them recognise potential risk in situations, when to avoid involvement, and how best to manage these risks. The book will give professionals...
Lifting Our Voices
The Journeys Into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2008
Lifting Our Voices is the only book to explore the dual roles of professional social workers who are also family caregivers and the only collection on caregiving in which the majority of contributors are African American. After discussing the relevant literature, Lifting Our Voices vividly and sensitively...
Psychotherapy in Group Care
Making Life Good Enough
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Integrate psychotherapy with residential treatment to achieve positive results for patients in group care!
This book addresses the complex issues that arise in the effort to provide individual therapy in group care settings. It reviews classical case material, presents contemporary case studies,...
Good Practice in Safeguarding Children
Working Effectively in Child Protection
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Good Practice in Safeguarding Children considers how front-line professionals can keep the best interests of the child at the heart of their work when statutory guidance, the way agencies are integrated and the delivery of services are changing.
Liz Hughes and Hilary Owen have drawn together...