Social Work category: 3462 books
Specialist Communication Skills for Social Workers
Developing Professional Capability
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book gives students a solid understanding of the key issues involved in effective communication within social work settings. Now going into its second edition, it combines practical examples with a clear theoretical approach and demonstrates the subtleties of communication with specific and diverse service users and carers.
Promoting Young People's Wellbeing through Empowerment and Agency
A Critical Framework for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The terms ‘wellbeing’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘agency’ are common parlance in policy and practice with children, young people and families (CYPF), yet are often misused or not fully understood. Further, there is a disconnect between these abstract concepts and tangible practice with CYPF.
This...
Housing for the Elderly
Policy and Practice Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Find out how housing options for the elderly are changing—and not always for the better
To maintain or improve their quality of life, many seniors in the United States will move to new locations and into new types of housing. Housing for the Elderly addresses the key aspects of the transitions...
Quality of Life
Perspectives and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Concern about the quality of life and its measurement is probably greater now than ever before. The last five years have seen considerable changes in policy, particularly in health and social service markets bringing into question appropriate measures of input and output. The issues addressed in this...
Putting Analysis Into Child and Family Assessment, Third Edition
Undertaking Assessments of Need
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Putting Analysis into Child and Family Assessment bridges theory and practice, and provides clear guidance to improve assessments in child and family social work.
It addresses the issues of central concern to child and family social workers, including analytical assessment, outlines how to...
The Subjectivity Of Participation
Articulating Social Work Practice with Youth in Copenhagen
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
What is a 'we' a collective and how can we use such communal self-knowledge to help people? This book is about collectivity, participation, and subjectivity and about the social theories that may help us understand these matters. It also seeks to learn from the innovative practices and ideas of a...
by Carpenter, John, Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
The idea that professionals in health and social care should ‘learn together to work together’ in ‘interprofessional education’ (IPE) is not new. Nevertheless, interest in this concept has grown dramatically. By learning together, professions will better understand each other and value what...
Safeguarding Adults and the Law, Third Edition
An A-Z of Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its third edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students. It is now in an A-Z format, enabling quick reference to a wide range of civil and criminal law, and to legal...
New Approaches in Ethics for the Caring Professions
Taking Account of Change for Caring Professions
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Ethics are central to the caring professions. The very idea of a profession stakes a claim on the ethical basis of knowledge and skills. In this book Richard Hugman examines new approaches in ethics and applies these to the practices and organisation of the caring professions. Hugman addresses debates...
by Linda Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This book demystifies reflective practice, which is at the heart of becoming a competent and confident social work professional.
Community Organizing Against Homophobia and Heterosexism
The World Through Rainbow-Colored Glasses
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Examine how community organizing can help eliminate sexual oppression!
This book presents insights from activists working in dramatically diverse cultures toward a common goal-the eradication of sexual oppression. Contributors share their experiences in organizing for sexual emancipation in...
Resiliency Enhancement
Putting the Strength Perspective Into Social Work Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients. Contributors to this volume show how social workers can use interventions to enhance those resiliency factors.
Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents
Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Although generally considered adult disorders, anxiety and depression are widespread among children and adolescents, affecting academic performance, social development, and long-term outcomes. They are also difficult to treat and, especially when they occur in tandem, tend to fly under the diagnostic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Our uncertain times are hard enough for adults to navigate. For all too many young people—even many who appear to possess good coping skills—the challenges may seem overwhelming. More and more, resilience stands as an integral component in prevention programs geared to children and adolescents,...