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Product Description: In the social work setting, working with vulnerable, disempowered, and marginalized adults requires sensitivity as well as an awareness of how they can be discriminated against. Working with Adults: Values into Practice will help practitioners to critically evaluate their own work and to explore the extent to which their practice reflects a commitment to: working collaboratively with service users ...read more

Product Description: This succinct and insightful guide to reflective practice is designed for students and practitioners of social work, health care and related fields. Its clear and careful integration of both the "thinking and doing" elements of the often challenging task of practising reflectively makes this an ideal text at all levels of study and practice...read more

Product Description: This new and fully updated edition of the hugely popular The Social Work Companion is as practical and user friendly as the last. Written by experts in the field, the book guides the reader through from their academic study on social work courses to entering the field as a practitioner...read more

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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

Product Description: The highly successful Globetrotter Travel series, which includes guides, maps, and atlases, presently covers more than 80 destinations worldwide. The packs are excellent value, including both a guidebook and a soft cover of the foldout Globetrotter map of the region, in a printed plastic wallet...read more

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Product Description: This is a manual designed as an aid to learning for anyone involved in the care of older people in group living situations - such as residential or nursing homes - hospitals, assisted housing schemes, or in their own homes. Above all, this text is for those who recognise that their work is people work, with all the complexity of emotions and values that such work involves - for those who are willing to rise to the challenge of dealing with some of the problems older people face - and for those that recognise that: older people are people first and foremost; staff working with older people are human too and have needs of their own, for example the need for support in certain circumstances; staff want guidance on how a commitment to treating those they provide care for as people can be maintained in the face of very heavy demands on time, energy, and emotional reserves...read more

Describes the basic equipment and techniques needed to create clothing, accessories, and home furnishings such as curtains, napkins, vests, and drawstring bags

Describes the basic equipment and techniques needed to create clothing, accessories, and home furnishings such as curtains, napkins, vests, and drawstring bags

Shows how to use flounces, stripes, piping, topstitching, pintucks, applique, bands, bindings, pleats, tucks, ruching, and faggoting in dressmaking, and looks at clothing from the past that makes use of each technique