Social Work

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.

An easy to navigate introduction to the law relevant to social work and how it can be applied in practice. Contemporary, creative and student-focused, this is a must-have textbook for qualifying undergraduates, Social Work degree apprentices, and newly qualified social workers.

This book re-visits anti-racism within social work practice and education from a student focused and informed perspective based on lived experience and conversations, offering practical model and tools for students and lecturers that are tried and tested.

The book examines the experiences of people with mental health problems across all stages of the Criminal Justice System. 

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

As a practice educator, do you sometimes encounter difficulties in supporting individual students through placement? This book is a handy companion of innovative practice to help you through those times.

Developed specifically for the social work degree apprenticeship to guide apprentices through the unique requirements of this new qualifying route.

This book places the expertise of people with lived experiences front and centre of the narrative on social exclusion, marginalisation and social stigma in the UK.

A guide to enable social work practice educators to be more creative in the teaching, supervision and assessment of students.

You write something in order that it can be read, not in order that it can be written – write reports that achieve and illuminate.

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

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