This practical guide takes the complex world of social work and breaks it down into key lessons. Topics cover everything from the way you think to the realities of writing reports, all reinforced by handy summaries. Whether youre a new student or an experienced professional, this book will help you get the best results for your clients.
Insights and Opportunities for a Growing Profession
With the rapid growth of the aging population, the need for geriatric social workers is at an all-time high. This resource for students and practitioners addresses the critical demand head-on by illuminating the many rewards, challenges, and opportunities for social workers to provide counseling, care management, and support to older adults.
Providing vital tools to enhance preparedness in any school setting (K-12), this book is grounded in state-of-the-art research and real-world experience. Foremost authority Scott Poland and frontline clinician Sara Ferguson address all aspects of team-based crisis intervention and postvention. With a key focus on prevention, the book describes ......
This book came about from the authors' experience working together in clinical learning disabilities services, and their work to move the focus away from the management of challenging behaviour and towards a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach to caring. It will introduce some of the key theories that have informed our understanding of the ......
Acceptance-Based Guided Self-Help for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Sometimes, we can all try so hard to avoid causing ourselves pain that we dont live our lives to the full - and people with intellectual disabilities are no different.
This book lays out the current legal requirements of manual handling in a non-technical way and includes case studies illustrating the law applied in practice, across health, social care and educational settings. The main part of the book is an A-Z guide, providing quick access to legislation and common law rules applying to personal injury cases.
Person-centred care for individuals with mental illness: a values-based approach is a guide to support staff working in mental health in-patient settings.
Placing street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare state politics, policy, and management, this volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries. It is suitable for public management and public policy scholars and students.
