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

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

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 book explores the challenges experienced by convicted offenders characterized by having special needs, and promotes interest in a rapidly increasing segment of the incarcerated inmates' population.

This book uses intuitive examples to introduce readers to the idea of self-control and its importance for understanding criminal behaviour, and to explore the close connection between self-control and the behavioural choices people make.

This book aims to help students understand the nature of helping relationships and the specific skills involved in initiating and maintaining a helping relationship.

Focusing on the experience of teaching and practicing international social work, rather than reflecting on the field, this book offers practical knowledge and strategies aimed at actively addressing issues that are critical to the well-being of people, communities, and nations around the world.

With brand new chapters on theory, history and globalization, this book, written within a strong human rights framework, provides students with a current and critical guide to the area

Edited by a leader in the field this book presents and ties social justice to the core values of social work across the curriculum. It presents the history and philosophy that supports social justice and ties it to ethical concepts which help students understand social justice as a core social work value.