Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Elaine Aspinwall-Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Social Care at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She is a qualified social worker and wa...

Families, in whatever form they may take, are at the center of all our lives. In the absence of a comprehensive national family policy, any policy ...

What shapes human behavior? Christopher Hudson approaches this conundrum with an outstanding grasp of the theoretical underpinnings of the human se...

Using forty years of evidence-based research as its core, Family Engagement with Education: Strategies for School Social Workers and Educators is t...

Assessment and Intervention with Mothers and Partners Following Child Sexual Abuse provides child protection professionals with the guidance they n...

This definitive text, now revised and expanded, has introduced thousands of students and practitioners to the theory and practice of social work wi...

The first year of practice can be a particularly daunting and challenging time for newly-qualified social workers (NQSWs). This fully revised and u...

The first year of practice can be a particularly daunting and challenging time for newly-qualified social workers (NQSWs). This fully revised and u...

Understanding the way in which individuals develop before birth, as babies, children and adolescents through to young and older adulthood towards d...

All social work students must undertake Practice Placements in the second and final years of their programme and the placement is a crucial area of...

Service users often say that the traits they most value in social workers are their ability to be non-judgmental, their listening skills and their ...

This book explores the journey of becoming a social worker. It is based upon the experiences of social work students themselves and therefore provi...

Social Work in Health Care: Its Past and Future gives social workers up-to-date, comprehensive information about the roles and the kinds of skills ...

Social work skills are essential to good practice and more important than ever following changes to the social work curriculum. Students must be ab...

This should be one of the first books you put in your bag in the morning. Concise yet thorough, with full and accessible explanations, it is set ou...

This new practice-oriented workbook includes experiential learning exercises explicitly aligned to the practice behaviors recommended in the Counci...

This accessible book takes a unique person-centred approach to working with older people and provides an introduction to the legislation, policy, t...

Ruben Martin is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Kent, where he was previously Director of Studies for the BA (Hons)...

Whether youre new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Family Law is all about, Beginning Family La...

This helpful text represents another brick in the wall for social workers and social work students seeking to make sense of personalisation/person...

Providing a comprehensive and critical examination of the complex issues involved in the management and organisational contexts of social work prac...

It is estimated that there are some 140 million orphans world-wide, most of them in poorer regions. Joanne Bailey and the contributors to this ...

From the moment she stepped foot on Australian soil in december 1934, it was clear that Jocelyn Hyslop was a force to be reckoned with. On the day ...

This one stop resource highlights evidence-informed practice and serves as an accessible and invaluable resource for all working with individuals e...

Charles Zastrow - a leader in the field for over forty years - combines the key components of traditional and contemporary approaches to teaching s...