A step-by-step guide to social work practice; assessment, planning, intervention and review

A critical analysis of the practical application of law and policy relating to social work with children and families.

Focuses on how practitioners can engage with continuing professional learning and development. This book is written to support and help busy social workers in front line practice, as well as those in leadership and management roles, to achieve the key aims of continuing professional development (CPD) in a post-qualifying social work context.

This is a student guide to effective and ethically sound observation in social work practice.

This book, written for practicing social workers undertaking their ASYE and compulsory CPD, has been designed to help professionals make sound judgments in increasingly complex contexts and under pressure.

This book will provide students on youth and community work courses with a good understanding of the range of theories that should support their practice.

A guide to values and ethics for mental health students

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.

This book provides a general introduction to working with risk in social care.

An essential and highly topical text for students undertaking policing related degrees and programmes with a terrorism element.