Social Work

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.

An essential text for all those undertaking a social work degree within higher education, providing study support and skills development for academic writing and referencing.

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.

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.