Social Work

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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

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