This series of practical guides provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with concise and contemporary information on adolescents' problems. The guides are designed for use in assessment and intervention with clients and in planning training or therapeutic programmes - and can also be used for teaching purposes. The hints for parents sections which appear at the back of each guide may be photocopied and given to clients; the questionnaires, checklists and assessment forms which appear in the appendices are also copyright-free. Titles in the...

This title aims to provide a comprehensive and up to date review of the relationship between psychology, morality and offending behaviour. It sets out the theory and research which has been carried out in the field, and examines the ways in which this knowledge has been used in practice to inform treatment programmes for offenders - in a variety of different settings (prisons, residential settings, in the community).