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Professional Boundaries in Social Work and Social Care

A Practical Guide to Understanding, Maintaining and Managing Your Professional Boundaries

by Frank Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012

Professional boundaries between worker and client underpin all areas of practice in social work and social care, and the mismanagement of these boundaries can lead to unprofessional conduct and negative consequences for both worker and client. This book is a no-nonsense guide to boundaries...
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Practice placement in social work

Innovative approaches for effective teaching and learning

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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016

Involved in educating social work professionals? Overwhelmed and demoralised by the current climate of cuts to services and over-regulation? This unique book written by practice educators, students and academics offers hope. This collection of innovative approaches to social work placements addresses...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

This book is a quick and accessible reference guide to the key concepts that social work students and professionals need to understand to be effective. The authors place practice at the centre of the text, and include a host of case examples to bring the concepts to life. Examining the essential...
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Youth Work Process, Product and Practice

Creating an authentic curriculum in work with young people

by Jon Ord
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016

Youth Work Process and Practice provides an overview of the central concerns in youth work today, exploring what youth work actually consists in and developing an authentic theoretical framework for practice. This accessible textbook places the role of the curriculum and idea of practice as...
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by Sally Holland
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of Child and Family Assessment in Social Work Practice is an essential guide for social work students and practitioners involved in the assessment of children and their families. Focusing on 'core' assessments and guiding the reader through the complexities...
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by Mr Steven Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012

This book looks at the changing context of children and young people's services heralded by the structural, organisational and funding changes put forward in Eileen Munro's Review of Child Protection. It is strongly grounded in research and theory, and gives specific consideration to how systems theory...
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by Nigel Horner
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012

It is essential that social work students have a clear grasp of the history and the evolutions of social work practice. Now in its fourth edition, Horner's classic introductory text looks at how issues such as the Personalisation Agenda, the work of the Reform Board, and how the notion of a Big Society...
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Family group conferences in social work

Involving families in social care decision making

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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018

Family group conferences (FGCs) are a strengths-based approach to social work practice, empowering families to take responsibility for decision-making. It is a cost-effective service, which is currently used by the majority of local authorities. This collection discusses the origins and theoretical...
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Rights and Wrongs in Social Work

Ethical and Practice Dilemmas

by Mark Doel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

In this hugely accessible new book, Mark Doel guides the reader through a proper consideration of these questions by examining the typical ethical dilemmas that challenge social workers on a daily basis. Inquisitive, probing and intellectually stimulating, Rights and Wrongs in Social Work untangles the...
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Relationship-Based Research in Social Work

Understanding Practice Research

by Kathleen Russell, Gavin Swann, Helen Hingley-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016

Relationship-based research is founded on the idea that human relationships are of paramount importance and should be central to social work research and practice. Drawing on psychodynamic and systemic understandings of research and practice, this book offers practitioners and academics an...
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by Lena Dominelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

Feminist theories of social work have been criticised in recent years for treating women as a uniform category and displaying insufficient sensitivity to the complex ways in which other social divisions (those of race, age, disability, etc.) impact on gender relations. This major text by a leading...
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by Neil Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

Existentialism and Social Work provides a clearly-expressed and well-argued exposition of Sartrean existentialism as a theory base for social work practice. It introduces the key concepts and themes of the philosophy and relates them to social welfare theory and practice. Existentialism is a valuable...
Cover of A Practical Guide to Working with Reluctant Clients in Health and Social Care
by Maggie Kindred
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010

Practitioners in health and social care are often required to work with clients who do not want to work with them, and these 'reluctant' clients can often be the most challenging, but most rewarding, to work with. This practical, jargon-free book covers all the issues that practitioners are...
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by Peter Raynor, Iain Crow, James Bonta
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007

Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes effective practice in the assessment, supervision...
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