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  • Good Practice in Assessing Risk

    Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches

    Series series Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
    Maintaining a balance between managing and assessing risk and upholding the required high standards of practice in health and social care can be demanding, particularly in the current climate of increased preoccupation with the difficult tensions between rights, protection and risk-taking.Good Practice in Assessing Risk is a comprehensive guide to good practice for those working with risk, ... Read more

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  • Empowerment in Action

    Self-Directed Groupwork

    From three leading authorities in the field, this re-visit to a classic text demonstrates how groupwork can be used as a flexible tool for service user empowerment and participation across a range of contexts. Walking the reader through each stage in group formation and evolution, it is an essential text for health and social care professionals. ... Read more

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  • Supporting people

    Towards a person-centred approach

    There is widespread agreement that care and support services must change radically if they are to meet the rights and needs of the rapidly growing number of people who require them.For the first time, Supporting people explores with service users, practitioners, carers and managers what person-centred support means to them, what barriers stand in its way and how these can be overcome. It provides ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement

    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement provides a definitive introduction to practical, philosophical and theoretical issues at the heart of user involvement.This book provides an accessible account of the latest research findings regarding user involvement on three levels: the delivery and provision of services, practice and practitioners, and research and evaluation. It explores a wide ... Read more

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  • Involving Children and Young People in Health and Social Care Research

    Edited by Jennie Fleming, Thilo Boeck ...
    Led by both children’s rights perspectives and methodological arguments, there is an increasing emphasis on children and young people’s participation in health and social care research by researchers, policy makers and funding bodies – with many now considering the active involvement of children and young people a requirement. There is little exploration of how to address and overcome the many ... Read more

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  • The short guide to social work

    by Robert Adams ...
    Series series Short Guides
    This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it ... Read more

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  • An Introduction To Social Work Practice

    This workbook provides ideal preparation for students wanting to become self aware and self evaluative before moving into practice for the first time. ... Read more

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  • Personalisation

    Edited by Peter Beresford ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Personalisation has become the policy buzz-word of the twenty-first century. Supporters claim it offers service users choice and services attuned to meet their specific needs, moving away from 'one size fits all' state services. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series, Peter Beresford, one of Britain's foremost social work academics, challenges the ... Read more

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  • Effective Social Work with Children and Families

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  • Working with Older People

    Series series The Social Work Skills Series
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  • Contemporary Social Work Practice: A Handbook For Students

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