Social Work

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 ...

Why has the language of the child and of child protection become so hegemonic? What is lost and gained by such language? Who is being protected, an...

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

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...

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...