Social Work

Paints a graphic picture of the lives of displaced children and young people in the UK and the daily struggles and challenges they face.

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.

This book analyses informal caring across a variety of contexts, describing the nature of these relationships and the conditions under which they take place, and discusses the ways professionals can support and empower carers.

This book is an essential introduction and guide for a critical engagement with social problems. In short, What's your (social) problem and what are you going to do about it?

A useful resource for people seeking to understand witchcraft branding as a contemporary form of child abuse. 

Explains and promotes the fundamentals of values, ethics and rights for anyone involved in social work or health and social care. 

The book will enable social work professionals to develop a critical understanding of substance use policy, theory and practice which they can use in practice.

An accessible guide for those wanting to help and support children and young people with, or at risk of developing mental health problems.

Essential reading for all those undertaking a social work degree within higher education, providing study support, skills and strategies to ensure success.

An essential book to support students from diverse backgrounds as they embark on a Master’s degree in social work.

This is an accessible guide to placements provides a framework for students across the caring professions to understand the theory behind successful practice and the critical skills needed to apply it

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.