Social Welfare & Social Services

The Social Worker's Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health provides a comprehensive guide to working with children and young people who are ex...

Art-based activities can develop resilience and self-esteem, enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress and loss. Arts Activities...

Professional boundaries between worker and client underpin all areas of practice in social work and social care, and the mismanagement of these bou...

Toddler Adoption looks at the unique joys and challenges of adopting and parenting a toddler. When a child aged is adopted between the ages of 12 t...

Personalisation means people, their families and carers having choice and control over their support on a day-to-day basis. To deliver personalised...

*Winner in the Health and Social Care category at the 2012 British Medical Association Book Awards*Risk is central to professional practice, assess...

Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children lays out an evidence-based model for working with and assessing children with disorganized ...

A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or ad...

Presenting simple and cost-effective solutions for maintaining and improving mealtime abilities, this book discusses the practical aspects of eatin...

Identifying the most serious challenges faced in child protection work, this practical guide offers helpful solutions for frontline professionals w...

Parental mental health problems and substance misuse affect a significant number of families. This handbook provides practitioners with early inter...

Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability provides the practical knowledge that professionals need in order to understand common inte...

Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and su...

How do we, as humans, arrive at what we call morally or ethically good or bad decisions? What processes are involved in making ethical decisions? I...

This best practice guide provides a blueprint for managing seamless transitions between services for young people aged 16-25 with additional needs,...

A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care.It descri...

Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research means for the...

Practitioners in the helping professions today operate in challenging settings where budgets have been cut dramatically, and progression and succes...

How can positive psychology approaches help us to understand the process of adjustment to, and living well with dementia?As accounts of positive ex...

Life story work is one of the key therapeutic approaches to working with adopted or fostered children. While it sounds simple, there is much more t...

Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in cou...

This book tells stories of just how powerful social work can be. At its heart are stories drawn from frontline practice, ranging from first intervi...

What was American welfare like in George Washington's day? It was expensive, extensive, and run by local governments. Known as poor relief, it incl...

In Canada, professionals such as doctors, teachers, and social workers must report child abuse and neglect to Child Protection Services. This is of...