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  • Child Protection

    Managing Conflict, Hostility and Aggression

    by Siobhan E. Laird ...
    As they intervene in families to reduce the risk of harm to children, child protection social workers around the world are confronting increasingly high levels of hostility and aggression from some parents. Investigations into the deaths of children known to social services have accused social workers of failing to use their professional authority to challenge parents. This much needed book ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Cultural Diversity in Child Protection

    Cultural Competence in Practice

    by Siobhan E. Laird, Prospera Tedam ...
    Racial, ethnic and religious diversity requires social workers to safeguard children and support families from many different minority backgrounds. This innovative book is based on an analysis of Serious Case Reviews (Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews) involving issues of race, ethnicity and faith.The authors examine face-to-face social work practice with children, parents, their partners and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Practical Social Work Law

    Analysing Court Cases and Inquiries

    by Siobhan E. Laird ...
    Practical Social Work Law*: analysing court cases and inquiries* presents legal issues associated with social work in an accessible format. It approaches the law in a way that is less daunting and more engaging by examining actual court cases and public inquiries, and explores the stories of real people and the legal and ethical dilemmas practitioners will face. The text adopts a problem-centred ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Anti-Oppressive Social Work

    A Guide for Developing Cultural Competence

    by Siobhan Laird ...
    `This is an exciting and valuable book. In considering the role and importance of cultural competence in professional practice with diverse populations, it provides a refreshing and much needed approach to social work theory and practice′ - Kwame Owusu-Bempah, Reader in Psychology, University of LeicesterAnti-Oppressive Social Work: A Guide for Developing Cultural Competence aims to improve social ... Read more

    $100.79 CAD

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  • REALIZING THE POWER OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

    by Helen Timperley ...
    Developing an approach to professional learning that has motivated teachers and resulted in impressive improvements in student learning, particularly for students who traditionally underachieve in school. ... Read more

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  • Multiculturalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ali Rattansi ...
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    Multiculturalism appears to be in terminal crisis. It has been blamed for undermining national identity, diluting social cohesion, creating ethnic ghettos and cultural fragmentation, providing fertile ground for Islamic radicalism, encouraging perverse 'political correctness', and restricting liberal freedoms of expression, amongst other things. The public debate over multiculturalism has ... Read more

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  • Understanding Pupil Behaviour

    Classroom Management Techniques for Teachers

    by Ramon Lewis ...
    This book describes a system of successful classroom behaviour management techniques developed by the author over more than twenty-five years. It outlines the difficulties confronting teachers trying to manage pupils’ misbehaviour in schools and describes four types of pupil who can be helped to behave responsibly.In Understanding Pupil Behaviour Ramon Lewis explains how pupils’ behaviour can be ... Read more

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  • Law, Ethics and Professional Issues for Nursing

    A Reflective and Portfolio-Building Approach

    by Herman Wheeler ...
    This comprehensive new textbook covers core ethical and legal content for pre-registration nursing students. It provides readers with a sound understanding of the interrelationships between the NMC's code of conduct, standards and competencies, ethics and relevant sections of the English legal system.The only truly integrated text in the field, it opens with overviews of law and nursing, and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World

    Cases and Commentaries

    Edited by Sarah Banks, Kirsten Nøhr ...
    Ethics is an increasingly important theme in social work practice. Worldwide, social workers experience common ethical challenges (how to be fair, whether to break a rule, how to act in politically tense situations) in very different contexts – from disaster relief in China to child protection work in Palestine.This book takes as its starting point real life cases featuring ethical problems in the ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • The Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities

    International Perspectives

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    Since 1948 when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all students have been declared the right to education. The rights of disabled students have not been explicitly addressed, however, and each country has developed their own rules and regulations. Although similarities exist among the different countries, differences are evident, especially in both the extent and ... Read more

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  • OCR Sociology for A Level Book 2

    by Sue Brisbane, Katherine Roberts, Paul Taylor, Laura Pountney ...
    Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2017Build students' confidence to tackle the key themes of the 2015 OCR A-Level Sociology specification with this clear and accessible approach delivered by a team of leading subject authors.- Develop knowledge and understanding of key Year 2 concepts in... ... Read more

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