Social Work

Parents who neglect children present considerable challenges to child welfare professionals, and are often resistant to change. This book addresses...

Mindful Therapeutic Care for Children is an accessible guide to using mindfulness and reflection to improve the quality of care for vulnerable chil...

Now fully updated and with up-to-the-minute guidance, this is the only book you will need to make sense of the key elements of law involved in soci...

Communication skills are fundamental to effective social work practice. Accessible and easy-to-read, Mastering Communication in Social Work is desi...

Informed by a wealth of research, this accessible book focuses on a strengths-based approach to promoting children's wellbeing and giving them the ...

This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and eviden...

Following on from The Big Book of Therapeutic Activity Ideas for Children and Teens, this book provides EVEN MORE imaginative and fun activity idea...

Provides busy social work and health care practitioners with an accessible guide to adult safeguarding in the context of mental capacity and financ...

Provides busy social work and health care practitioners with an accessible guide to adult safeguarding in the context of mental capacity and financ...

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning documents what the best research has revealed about out-of-school learning: what facilitates or ham...

Massey University was the first New Zealand university to offer a social work degree, 40 years ago. This book is published to mark this milestone. ...

AN INDISPENSABLE GUIDE FOR SOCIAL WORK STUDENTSAll social work students face decisions about where they will undertake the minimum120 days of field...

What is emotional neglect? How does it affect children and the adults they become? What can we do to help?In The Simple Guide to Emotional Neg...

Praise for the first edition: The content of the book is excellent.... The strength lies in its detailed application of ideas to practice. The us...

Michael Dear and Jennifer Wolch examine the emergence of urban ghettos of the socially dependent--an unforeseen solution to the problem of developi...

Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communica...

This text takes a broad based approach to basic generalist practice methods that emphasize the common elements in working with individuals, familie...

Applying values and ethics to social work practice is taught widely across the qualifying degree programme, on both Masters and BA courses. This bo...

This is the most important book on illicit drug use and social work to be published for a long time Whilst it may inspire some to become drug spec...