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Covers the essential knowledge required to understand and develop skills in relation to professional judgement and decision making processes in social work practice

A text on working with aggressive or resistant groups and individuals

A quick, clear and interesting guide for students completing their final year research project.

This timely and fully revised second edition provides an overview of the personalisation agenda and looks at the recent legislation in a broad historical and theoretical perspective. This approach will provide opportunities for students to consider the changes to the social work role and to evaluate the impact of this for service users and as practitioners.

Safeguarding is a serious and complex area of social work practice and for all students, demonstrating an understanding of important safeguarding theory, law, policy and skills for practice is essential. Students need to understand what safeguarding is and means across the life course, and this new text brings together common themes and knowledge in safeguarding across children, young people and adult social work to do just that. This approach will encourage students to approach the subject from a holistic perspective, helping them develop their understanding of core themes and transferable skills for practice.

This is a complete social worker's guide to undertaking qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research.

Part of the Transforming Social Work Practice series, this title intends to support students on the social work degree. It seeks to confirm and strenghten social work values and principles so that the progress and successes achieved by 'Valuing People' can continue.

This book provides a general introduction to working with risk in social care.

This book offers students a solid grounding in the core knowledge and skills of communication needed for effective practice. It takes the key theories and explains them in a systematic and practice-related way, to help undergraduate and postgraduate students develop a critical understanding of the subject.

A complete guide to youth justice for social workers.

The first textbook to introduce student social workers specifically to the participation and involvement of service users and carers in social work practice.

Covers essential skills of working with this client group in detail - communicating, listening and understanding children's behaviour.