Social Work

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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. 

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

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.