Social Work category: 3462 books
Transition to Adulthood
Action, Projects, and Counseling
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
The transition to adulthood involves, for most individuals, moving from school to work, establishment of long-term relationships, possibly parenting, and a number of other psychosocial transformations. Now more than ever, there is a concern within popular and research literature about children growing...
Towards Professional Wisdom
Practical Deliberation in the People Professions
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
People professions - such as social work, teaching, nursing, ministry and counselling - are at heart ethical or moral enterprises. Much recent theorizing has been concerned to show that effective professional deliberation and judgement cannot be reduced either to technical rationality or to simple...
The Primordial Violence
Spanking Children, Psychological Development, Violence, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!
Why do parents hit those they love? What effect does it have on children? What can be done to end this pattern? These are some of the questions explored in The Primordial Violence. Featuring longitudinal data from over 7,000 U.S. families as well as...
by Tony Jeffs, Mark K. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
A contemporary reflection on current practice, this book gets to the heart of what 'youth work' is about. It provides an in-depth overview and analysis of practice,addressing the many experiences of working with young people through insightful chapters written by practitioners themselves.
Radical Casework
A theory of practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 1993
Radical Casework represents a major innovation in the social work field. It bridges the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the rhetoric of social analysis and the day-to-day practice of the social worker. Written in a clear, direct style, Radical Casework illustrates, step by step, how broad theoretical...
by Alex Copello, Jim Orford, Ray Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Highly Commended in the Psychiatry category at the 2010 BMA Medical Books Awards!
This book serves as a manual for clinicians working with people with alcohol problems. The manual is based on previous research in addiction treatment, including family and social network interventions, as well...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This unique book brings together, for the first time, advocates and critics of the personalisation agenda in English social care services to debate key issues relating to personalisation. Perspectives from practitioners, service users and academics come together to give an account of the practicalities...
Emotional Intelligence in Education
Integrating Research with Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
This book highlights current knowledge, best practices, new opportunities, and difficult challenges associated with promoting emotional intelligence (EI) and social-emotional learning (SEL) in educational settings. The volume provides analyses of contemporary EI theories and measurement tools, common...
by Jon Glasby, Jerry Tew
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
This highly regarded book offers a clear and considered guide to modern mental health policy and practice. Building on the success of previous editions, this third edition provides:
• An up-to-date overview of the changes to mental health policy and practice as they apply to a broad range...
Reflecting On and Developing Your Practice
A Workbook for Social Care Workers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Working in residential or domiciliary settings involves a continuing process of learning. Every day, social care workers face challenges that force them to think about what they do and how they do it – whether it be an ethical dilemma, the introduction of a new policy or procedure or training on...
From Exploitation to Empowerment
A Socio-Legal Model of Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Intellectually Disabled Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
This book presents the outcomes of a field action project at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). Project Chunauti (English translation: Project Challenge) focused on a group of intellectually disabled, orphan children who were survivors of abuse, exploitation and neglect, and describes their...
The Social Worker's Guide to Children and Families Law
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Now fully updated and with up-to-the-minute guidance, this is the only book you will need to make sense of the key elements of law involved in social work with children and families in England and Wales.
Accessible and jargon-free, this everyday reference explains the fundamental concepts of...
Community Reparation for Young Offenders
Perceptions, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Community reparation for young offenders involves unpaid work such as painting and decorating, litter picking and graffiti removal. Whilst remaining a major part of the youth justice landscape, concern has been raised about the poor quality of workplace provision.
In this book, Nicholas Pamment...
Effective Communication
A Workbook for Social Care Workers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
Social care workers in residential or domiciliary settings need to be able to communicate effectively in order to carry out their work.
Supporting people with a variety of difficulties including hearing loss, impaired speech, visual impairment, dementia and physical and learning disabilities...