Social Work

A comprehensive social worker's guide to working with children with disabilities.

An invaluable guide for Practice Educators and Practice Supervisors undertaking learning and assessment to gain and maintain Stage 1 or 2 status under the Practice Educator Professional Standards for Social Work (2013) and for those involved in facilitating the learning, support, assessment and CPD of Practice Educators. 

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.

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.

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. 

This book will help social workers gain a comprehensive understanding of how to achieve best practice in applying the Care Act 2014.

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

How to understand social work theory and apply it to social work practice

 A history of critical psychiatry that also acts as a call for a new approach to mental health services.

A practical intervention framework and guide in Risks & Strengths Assessment in self-neglect for support staff who are working with adults who self-neglect or may be at risk of self-neglecting in the future.

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

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.