Product Description: Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook provides practical guidance in the assessment of the most frequently encountered offender subgroups found within the criminal justice system. Topics include: criminal justice assessments offenders with mental disorders family violence policy and practice...read more

The tenth edition of the work that offers practitioners guidance on all types of civil litigation. It takes the reader through every stage of an action, from the preliminary stages of litigation, through the directions stage to trial, costs, enforcement and appeals.

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This book is a practical guide to the CARE programme, a home visiting programme that aims to assess infants? growth, development and psycho-social transitions in their first year of life and that together with the Index of Need checklist aims to engage parents in risk assessment. It provides evidence-based research for the programme, and gives clinical examples of how to use the assessment tools (including the Index of Need) and how to work with parents. The authors take a ?partnership with parents? approach throughout, while bearing in mind the practical workload issues that practitioners face.

Product Description: This book is a practical guide to the CARE programme, a home visiting programme that aims to assess infants? growth, development and psycho-social transitions in their first year of life and that together with the Index of Need checklist aims to engage parents in risk assessment...read more

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Product Description: Welfare Benefits and Immigration Law provides an excellent guide to those unfamiliar with these two problematical areas of practice. Part I is a clearly explained introduction to the welfare benefits system in England and Wales. Part II is an immensely useful introduction to immigration and nationality law and practice including the latest changes to asylum procedures...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive handbook is a thoroughly up-to-date reference for all those involved in child protection work and is based on the highly successful Early Prediction and Prevention of Child Abuse first published in 1988. With a focus on evidence based practice, the handbook has four sections: Prevalence and Prediction; Primary and Secondary Prevention; Helping Victims and Helping Offenders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Some families are dangerous environments. Most practitioners in social work, child protection, and hospital and community medicine, as well as the police, will know from their professional experience the extent of spouse abuse, child abuse, sibling violence and maltreatment of the elderly within the family setting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Discusses the possibility of early prediction and prevention of child abuse. Identifies the types of family most at risk, and describes methods of screening for potential child abusers. Also considers types of intervention and treatment.