Bringing together a range of expert voices to tackle the essential topics relevant to the study of disability from a social perspective, this interdisciplinary introduction includes over 50 chapters relevant across health and social care.

An indispensable international resource for students and researchers of all levels studying the rapidly developing, interdisciplinary field of criminology.

This text offers basic generalist practice methods which emphasize the common elements in working with individuals, families and groups.

Moving away from the usual medical-modeled framework of mental health focused on problems, this title takes a postmodern, social construction approach, looking for and amplifying strengths and encouraging stakeholders to use them.

Advocacy is an essential skill for social workers who need to be able to speak confidently on behalf of service-users in a range of situations. In this new book, Jane Dalrymple and Jane Boylan explore the theory and research behind advocacy and draw on a range of case studies to demonstrate how to achieve best practice.

This book sees leading national and international scholars provide a critical assessment of the relation between 'evidence' and contemporary youth justice policy formation, and it has been fully updated to recognize the major reforms of recent years in the youth justice policy environment.

This comprehensive textbook engages in the essential discussion of what professional leadership means in the context of contemporary social work and why this is considered to be important for the future of the profession.

The fifth edition of Robert Brown's introduction to mental health law for health and social care professionals training to be Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMPHs).

A comprehensive introduction to green criminology, this book includes a discussion of the relationship between mainstream criminal justice and green crimes. Focused on environmental harm within the context of criminal justice, it takes a global perspective and introduces students to different theoretical perspectives in green criminology.

This book uses key sociological concepts and theories to help student social workers better understand the nature of their work and the context within which they will be working.