This book offers a simple, constructive and fully referenced guide to planning and reflecting on career development in social work, using a portfolio-based approach.

An essential read for anyone working today, this book focuses on agile resilience, exploring how resilience can be learned, chosen, developed and adapted to help you cope with the range of circumstances and experiences you may face at work, whether that's at home, in an office or any other workspace.

A guide to relationship-based practice for social work with adults

A new text on digital literacy for primary trainees and teachers, completely up to date for the new primary curriculum and computing programmes of study.

Covers the full range of topics and teaching strategies to support all practitioners in an international school context.

Essential reading if you are considering making an application for secondary initial teacher education or preparing to begin your programme. Introduces you to a range of perspectives on teaching and teacher education and guides you through the application process to ensure you choose the training route that’s right for you.

Through its exploration of service user and MHSWs’ perspectives the book offers a social perspective on personality disorder and suggests ways of working to empower the person’s response to traumatic experience. 

A must-have book for nurses, exploring all aspects of professional development in learning disability nursing from the foundations to advanced practice.

Essential reading for those who want to develop greater knowledge and awareness of the history, culture and lifestyles of GRT people.

A comprehensive and up to date text for all those required to understand past and current early years’ policy and practice.

An essential text for primary trainees and teachers focusing on a range of issues to develop children who can read into children who do read.

Positive Social Work will support and help you as a NQSW to understand your role within the context of a developing Social Work service. It will ensure that you are equipped with the knowledge and skills to do the job as best you can.