Product Description: AQA approved. GCSE Health and Social care is written for AQA's GCSE Health and Social Care Single and Double Award specifications, with emphasis on the skills needed for the Controlled Assessment assignments. Help prepare your students for their exams - written for AQA's GCSE Health and Social Care specification...read more

Product Description: An Introduction to Using Theory in Social Work Practice equips the reader to use fourteen key social work theories to guide each phase of the planned change process, from engagement through to evaluation. Suitable for a generalist approach, this book illustrates the value of applying theory to practice in a variety of social work roles, across diverse fields and facing assorted challenges...read more

Product Description: This is a book about social workers and social work. It tells the story of the journey into and through social work of people from around the world living and working in social work today. We hear what has brought them into social work and what has kept them in it since...read more

Product Description: Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement provides a definitive introduction to practical, philosophical and theoretical issues at the heart of user involvement. This book provides an accessible account of the latest research findings regarding user involvement on three levels: the delivery and provision of services, practice and practitioners, and research and evaluation...read more

Product Description: Today, in a period of economic crisis, public sector cuts and escalating class struggle, Marxism offers important tools for social workers and service users to understand the structures of oppression they face and devise effective means of resistance...read more

Product Description: The marginalization of John Clare's poetry, despite renewed interest in Romanticism and the literature of madness, is still an enigma. This important collection of new critical essays provides a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary, and will be a landmark in the history of his reception...read more

Product Description: After a century in which charities suspected the motives of cynical business people, and business people dismissed the contributions of amateur volunteers, the two sectors are coming together today as never before. The third sector has increased its business capacity through the experience gained from a decade of providing commissioned services to the public sector...read more

In a climate for practice increasingly shaped by global economic and social forces, the importance of a reflective discourse about the place of theory in practice is paramount. With contributions from leading academics such as Neil Thompson, Lena Dominelli, Brian Sheldon, and from social work practitioners, this essential new book critically reviews key theories and methods in the context of contemporary practice. New insights and findings emerge to reveal how, as Bill Jordan argues in the final chapter, social work can be 'a credible and relevant factor in the lives of people who use its services'. Everyone who cares about social work's role and future will find here a diversity and richness of ideas married with a clarity of thought and expression that can help them confront what the editors call 'the sheer scale and intensity of the changes in the human service organizations that are creating a growing sense of unease and ambiguity about the future'. The journey through the disputed territory of social work models, methods and theories provides an authoritative introduction to the field as well as an important resource for experienced practitioners.

Product Description: It is essential for social work students to know about social policy, to know why studying social policy is important in the social work degree, and to understand how social policy, when implemented, has a real impact on the everyday life of vulnerable people...read more

Product Description: Social work, once the rising star of the human service delivery professions has increasingly come under attack from politicians and the media, often following child abuse tragedies and particularly after the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979...read more

Product Description: This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today...read more

Product Description: Radical social work is a tradition often identified exclusively with the movement which developed in the UK in the 1970s, yet as this much-needed new textbook demonstrates, the relevance of radical approaches to contemporary social work practice have never been stronger...read more

Product Description: The completely revised second edition of this highly respected textbook provides a comprehensive yet digestible and accessible introduction to the theoretical foundations, development and crucial areas of contemporary concern in social policy and welfare...read more

Product Description: Drawing together theory and practice, this comprehensive resource presents guidelines for good practice in community care work. The contributors describe the planning and implementation of pioneering initiatives in the community, analyse their effectiveness and outline their practical implications in the light of the current legislative framework...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)