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Product Description: Family support is an increasingly important strategic approach to welfare services for children and families. This invaluable resource for all professionals engaged in the development and delivery of these services is underpinned by reflective practice values and structured around four themes: * conceptual frameworks and vocabulary (defining) * policy and organisational structures and processing (planning) * tools for creative practice (doing) * approaches to evaluation (measuring)...read more

Product Description: Offering a clear account of some of the key issues underpinning understanding of practice, Community Care argues strongly against forms of practice that are mechanistic and simplistic in their approach to meeting vulnerable people's needs...read more

This book can be of help to anyone who works in group care with children and young people whether they are living away from home - for example in children's homes, hospitals, residential schools - or are in the care of others during the day - for example, at family centres.

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Product Description: Professionals in the world of e-business need a reliable way of gauging the risks associated with new endeavours. This hands-on guide presents an effective approach to using risk to conduct test strategies. It helps professionals understand the risks of e-business and conduct risk analysis that identifies the areas of most concern...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Social work with children, young people and their families is demanding and challenging work. It has long been argued that basic social work training is not enough to equip practioners with the knowledge and skills they need to face the challenges of life as a qualified social worker...read more

Product Description: Relating theory to practice is a long-standing concern in the human services. The first edition of this book helped readers appreciate the complexities of many of the key issues surrounding the integration of theory and practice. This revised and updated edition builds on that success, covering the latest developments in the relationship between theory and practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This guide provides an overview of the key issues in coping with pressure and stress, and provides practical guidelines on how the problems can be tackled. Problems covered include the emotional labour involved in social work and social care, and aggression and the risk of violence...read more

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Product Description: A blend of theory and practice to help staff in the caring professions achieve high standards of practice in their dealings with older people.

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Product Description: The book is an in-depth review of the theory and empirics of the demand for money and other financial assets. The different theoretical approaches to the portfolio choice problem are described, together with an up-to-date survey of the results obtained from empirical studies of asset choice behaviour...read more

Product Description: Existentialism and Social Work provides a clearly-expressed and well-argued exposition of Sartrean existentialism as a theory base for social work practice. It introduces the key concepts and themes of the philosophy and relates them to social welfare theory and practice...read more