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Young People Leaving Care : Life After the Children Act 1989
ISBN: 9781853024122 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens to young people when they leave care? Young care leavers are very over-represented in all the problem social policy areas (for example in the homelessness, young offenders institutions, begging and poverty statistics). Although there has been some progress in assisting care leavers with their transition to independence, the problems they present and face remain acute. This book contains extensive practice information, original research material and policy findings about young people leaving public care and the work of leaving care projects. It contains data on the circumstances...
What happens to young people when they leave care? Young care leavers are very over-represented in all the problem social policy areas (for example in...
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The Working of Social Work
ISBN: 9781853024986 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Those who practise, manage and pay for social work have increasingly to provide evidence of its quality and effectiveness. There is therefore substantial interest in the promotion of evaluative research, in a variety of forms and locations, and in the dissemination of its conclusions. This book aims to: present in an accessible and lively format recent research of direct relevance to key issues in social work policy and practice promote understanding and use of research methods appropriate for both academic, practitioner and agency based research. The studies, all of which were undertaken in...
Those who practise, manage and pay for social work have increasingly to provide evidence of its quality and effectiveness. There is therefore substant...
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Innovative Education and Training for Care Professionals : A Provider's Guide
ISBN: 9781853026133 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This positive book brings together current good practice in education and training for care professionals around a central theme of involving service users and improving the quality of their care. The contributors set out a strategy for the teaching of theory and practice to care professionals in the context of changing policy and practice in agencies and in higher education. Helpful guidance is offered to education and training providers in universities and agencies on the preparation of care professionals for the new millenium and beyond. Topics addressed within the book include:...
This positive book brings together current good practice in education and training for care professionals around a central theme of involving service ...
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Social Workers, the Community and Social Interaction : Intervention and the Sociology of Welfare
ISBN: 9781853027314 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social workers are called upon to perform their varied tasks in a wide range of social settings, often involving intensely intimate contact with, and intervention in, a person's private moral and social world. Offering insights into the lives and motives of social work service users, Social Workers, The Community and Social Interaction demonstrates the practical relevance of recent sociological research for good social work practice. The book examines such topics as: -how social work is taught, managed and delivered -the interaction between clients and social workers -the nature of social...
Social workers are called upon to perform their varied tasks in a wide range of social settings, often involving intensely intimate contact with, and ...
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Ethical Practice and the Abuse of Power in Social Responsibility : Leave No Stone Unturned
ISBN: 9781853027437 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To avoid unfair and abusive practice in social care, policy makers and professionals need to examine the body of values, rules and methods which guide their work, and to move towards a more sophisticated participatory approach to social responsibility. Presenting the stories of individuals from all levels of the social and legal systems, including service users, judges, therapists, psychiatrists, social workers, social policy academics and parents, Ethical Practice and the Abuse of Power in Social Responsibility represents and unites academic, professional and personal perspectives. Topics...
To avoid unfair and abusive practice in social care, policy makers and professionals need to examine the body of values, rules and methods which guide...
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The Changing Role of Social Care
ISBN: 9781853027529 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the enormous organisational and cultural changes that local authority social services have undergone since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act, this volume provides an overview of the structure and function of social care at practice, management and policy levels. It contains contributions from leading academics, researchers and practitioners in the UK, and also includes chapters on the experiences across the United Kingdom and abroad. The contributors examine the impact and effectiveness of key shifts in: the weighting of responsibility of central and local government who the...
Focusing on the enormous organisational and cultural changes that local authority social services have undergone since the 1990 NHS and Community Care...
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Learning to Practise Social Work : International Approaches
ISBN: 9781853027635 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important and accessible book deals with current issues in practice teaching and learning in social work for practitioners, students and academics. Written from an international perspective, this book draws together the knowledge and experiences of those from different countries working in a variety of social work settings. The contributors highlight the links and collaboration between college-based and practice-based learning, and discuss the diversity of the settings in which social work takes place. The book as a whole demonstrates the existence of universal issues and opportunities...
This important and accessible book deals with current issues in practice teaching and learning in social work for practitioners, students and academic...
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Approaches to Needs Assessment in Children's Services
ISBN: 9781853027802 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the assessment of need in children's services this book addresses the full spectrum of practice, policy and research developments in the field. The contributors include leading academics, policy makers and senior practitioners who generate a broad-based holistic approach to the assessment of children in need. They show how needs assessment in children's services can be used to tackle problems such as low achievement, mental ill-health and social exclusion at both individual and strategic levels. Approaches to the Assessment of Need in Children's Services will enable service managers...
Examining the assessment of need in children's services this book addresses the full spectrum of practice, policy and research developments in the fie...
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Engaging with Fathers : Practice Issues for Health and Social Care
ISBN: 9781853027949 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fathers are often marginalised or ignored in child protection practice. This reflects an uncertainty within society as a whole about the role of fathers in their children's lives. Engaging with Fathers is a guide for social workers and health visitors on how to broaden their practice to include fathers and stepfathers, whether or not their behaviour is abusive or problematic. The authors' approach is based on theoretical analysis and explores attachment theory, feminism, anti-discriminatory practice and nursing ideology as they have influenced social work. From this they provide suggestions...
Fathers are often marginalised or ignored in child protection practice. This reflects an uncertainty within society as a whole about the role of fathe...
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Domestic Violence : Guidelines for Research-Informed Practice
ISBN: 9781853028540 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is growing concern that domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions. Existing services, developed by mental health professionals frequently have minimal impact on reducing either the frequency or severity of domestic violence. As a result, science-practitioners in this field have developed new clinical research programs to inform key practice issues and improve these services. Domestic Violence: Guidelines for Research-Informed Practice describes recently developed intervention programs which have been shown to be effective for reducing the incidence, severity or impact of...
There is growing concern that domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions. Existing services, developed by mental health professionals frequent...
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Advocacy Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals
ISBN: 9781853028656 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most professionals working in health or social care will be required to act as advocates as part of their work. A social worker or community nurse may need to obtain extra benefits or a particular service for a client; a housing official may need to help a tenant whose benefit has been delayed thus placing them at risk of homelessness; a voluntary body may decide to challenge a statement of special educational needs for a child. This is a practical guide to advocacy skills specifically written for those in the health and social care professions. Neil Bateman examines the function of advocacy...
Most professionals working in health or social care will be required to act as advocates as part of their work. A social worker or community nurse may...
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Social Work and Dementia: Good Practice and Care Management
ISBN: 9781853029042 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical resource written specifically for social care professionals working with people with dementia and their families, this book gives guidance on person-centred good practice throughout the care process from the initial diagnosis, through day care, respite care, long-term care, and death and attachment. The guide will enable social workers to manage their cases effectively and empathetically, making appropriate, culturally sensitive decisions and acting as advocates for this growing client group. It contains essential background material about the financial and legal context,...
A practical resource written specifically for social care professionals working with people with dementia and their families, this book gives guidance...
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Becoming a Trainer in Adult Abuse Work: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9781853029134 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Pritchard's extensive experience of practice, research and training inform the advice and practical guidance she gives... The book is full of useful photocopiable handouts and proformas that can be helpful as long as the trainer has the necessary background knowledge to use them. The case studies are a joy and contain the diversity of experience and multicultural elements missing from the rest of the book. They will be useful in concocting a range of exercises and discussion points in basic training.' - Social Work Education 'The book is written in a clear, conversational style and is both...
'Pritchard's extensive experience of practice, research and training inform the advice and practical guidance she gives... The book is full of useful ...
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Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children - Including Refugee, Black and Mixed Parentage Children : A Handbook for Professionals
ISBN: 9781853029592 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Experts from a variety of disciplines contribute to this substantially revised edition of this popular handbook - new chapters are included on identity work, refugee children, and the work of the Asian Project. The book also examines the central importance for professionals of the Lawrence Enquiry; the move to include more public services in the Race Relations Act; increased awareness of institutional racism; and the specific inclusion of ethnic minority children in health improvement programmes. Offering practical guidance based on sound research and practice, the book provides a focus on...
Experts from a variety of disciplines contribute to this substantially revised edition of this popular handbook - new chapters are included on identit...
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Training for Transformation (IV): A Handbook for Community Workers Book 4
ISBN: 9781853394614 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Training for Transformation Book 4 is a practical and accessible workbook for community development workers. It recognizes that the only changes which effectively transform the lives of poor people are those in which they have been active participants--this book, and the earlier books in the Training for Transformation series, give many proved and practical ways of getting this process started.
Book Four focuses on five issues that have become more and more prominent in the concerns of communities throughout the world: * The environment * Gender and... Training for Transformation Book 4 is a practical and accessible workbook for community development workers. It recognizes that the only change...
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Coping with Aggressive Behaviour
ISBN: 9781854332059 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book includes a summary of the psychological theories which have been produced to explain aggression. Offering practical advice on methods for assessing dangerous situations and on developing personal and organizational strategies for coping with aggression, this book will be an invaluable tool towards controlling or constraining the aggression of others.
This book includes a summary of the psychological theories which have been produced to explain aggression. Offering practical advice on methods for as...
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Delinquency and Young Offenders
ISBN: 9781854333575 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 series of practical guides provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with concise and contempora...
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Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts
ISBN: 9781857432817 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Dictionary of Humanitarianism brings together leading experts, including many of the critical writers whose work led to the establishment of humanitarian studies in the first place. The field of humanitarianism is profoundly characterised by uncertainty, by a constant need to respond with authority to the unpredictable. As such, this title serves as a key resource for all those grappling with the tensions and dilemmas of humanitarian action. In the open-source, largely digital culture that characterises contemporary humanitarianism, a dictionary that simply listed publically... A Dictionary of Humanitarianism brings together leading experts, including many of the critical writers whose work led to the establishmen... |
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Key Nursing Skills
ISBN: 9781861563224 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by authors have a wide experience in teaching and practicing adult nursing, Key Nursing Skills will be invaluable to nurses who really want to get to grips with the more common procedures.
Each chapter focuses on a specific area of care and related skills and considers the main practice issues. Each intervention is presented within a nursing problem which states the nature of the patient problem and goal. The available current evidence base is outlined and related to the problem before the procedure is explained in straightforward terms. Experienced nurses' tips have been... Written by authors have a wide experience in teaching and practicing adult nursing, Key Nursing Skills will be invaluable to nurses who really want to...
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Nurse Led Change and Development in Clinical Practice
ISBN: 9781861563378 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How may nurses be enabled to contribute to, develop and advance their practice when working in bureaucratic and hierarchical health care settings? Corporate recognition and support for nurse-led change and development is gradually increasing. However, top down change is still frequently imposed without due regard for the wisdom of practitioners. Nurses should explore the theory and practice of change, identify changes to enhance the quality of patient care, and systematically put these into practice. As a result, they should be better equipped to cope with the implementation of national and...
How may nurses be enabled to contribute to, develop and advance their practice when working in bureaucratic and hierarchical health care settings? Cor...
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