Social Work

An up-to-date guide to the effective use of social media in social work education

 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

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.

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.

An accessible guide for those wanting to help and support children and young people with, or at risk of developing mental health problems.

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

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.

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

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

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