A step-by-step guide to the underpinning theoretical knowledge in social work helping your students to confidently apply theory in practice.

An investigation across the public sector into inspection regimes, audits, and performance targets

Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this dip in and out of guide introduces students to over 300 key laws, legal terms, and legal processes in a concise and no-nonsense way. I t covers all areas of social work practice, ensuring students have the knowledge they need to apply the law with confidence.

This guide aims to help both supervisors and supervisees use supervision to maximise learning, and to support best practice.

This student-friendly book offers a 'behind the scenes' look at becoming a social worker.

Student friendly, accessible and practical, this book covers all the core issues relating to the theory and practice of assessments in social work with children and their families

This searing memoir, written by a son about his mother’s dementia, is set in a town in the Netherlands but the issues reflected are relevant anywhere. The family are devoted, but the mother’s decline reveals undercurrents in their relationships. We hear of the conventional medical approach to this difficult area of care but the family reject the medication so frequently prescribed to control patients.

For a while, they care for her themselves at home but her increasingly erratic and some...

THE LIFE-CHANGING BESTSELLER - OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD'A deeply compassionate guide to self-care - simple and profound' Sir Kenneth Branagh'If you want to free yourself from anxiety and stress, and feel truly at ease with yourself, then read this book' Ruby WaxAuthoritative, beautifully written and much-loved by its readers, Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world has become a word-of-mouth bestseller and global phenomenon. It reveals a set of simple yet powerf...

In this book, Celia Doyle and Charles Timms join forces to take your students step-by-step through the underlining theory, skills and practice of working with vulnerable children, using case examples to cover everything they need to know, from detailing the assessment process to positive interventions and family management approaches.

This contributed book provides a broad-based, practical guide to treating criminal offenders in a correctional mental health practice.