A shocking reminder of the cruel history of childhood that has been largely hidden and forgotten.

Ideal for all trainee and registered health professionals who require knowledge and understanding of drugs used in the treatment of mental health conditions for prescribing or administering purposes. 

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

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

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.

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

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 offers a critical multidisciplinary analysis of case studies of social work interventions from a psychosocial and relationship-based perspective.

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

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.

This book offers an alternative and thought-provoking perspective to the conventional and orthodox understanding of mental health and how to help those suffering with mental illness. It will appeal to social workers in mental health contexts as well as students on post qualifying courses and the Masters Degree in Social Work. 

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.