A critical introduction to key concepts underpinning problem-solving models and theories seen in everyday policing, encouraging critical thinking and ethical decision making for students and officers of the future.

Helps social workers and health professionals recognise potential risks in situations, when to avoid involvement, and how best to manage the risks. 

This is the third edition of our best-selling Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work with the most up-to-date guidance so social workers can write reports that achieve and illuminate.

Focuses on using a strength-based approach when working with children and families; based on the belief that there are always strengths in the most challenging of situations.

A practical guide for the nursing care of neonates within hospital and home settings for the first year of life.

Explores how to evidence teaching achievements, and the implications of this for the status of HE teaching, as well as individual careers, before suggesting practical and demonstrable ways forward for individuals and institutions.