Professional Education for Social Work in Britain

Marjorie J Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 32
• Originally published in 1965, Professor Marjorie Smith's classic little book traces the story of professional education for social workers in this cou... Lees meer

Homeless Near a Thousand Homes

Bryan Glastonbury

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 13
• Who becomes homeless? Why? What stresses and strains do these people face? Does losing a home provoke other problems or is it a sequel to them? How fa... Lees meer

Ends and Means in Social Work

E Matilda Goldberg, R William Warburton

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 16
• Originally published in 1979, Ends and Means in Social Work was the first book to provide research-based evidence on what social workers actually do, ... Lees meer

The Adopted Child Comes of Age

Lois Raynor

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 31
• How do adoptions really turn out? How do adopted children feel about the family they were given and the opportunities they were offered? To what exten... Lees meer

Charging for Social Care

Ken Judge, James Matthews

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 23
• Despite the widely held belief that the social services were allocated solely on the basis of client need, and could therefore be directly contrasted ... Lees meer

Old Age Homes

Roger Clough

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 10
• Originally published in 1981, in Old Age Homes Roger Clough presents a vivid description of the lives and work of residents and staff in an old people... Lees meer

Organising for Social Change

David N Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 35
• Originally published in 1976, the aim of this book was to understand the contribution of community work to meeting some of the problems to be found in... Lees meer

Towards Death with Dignity

Sylvia Poss

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 29
• The explosion of literature on the once taboo topic of death and dying in the late 1970s had tended to pass the professional social worker by. Origina... Lees meer

Day Services for Adults

Jan Carter

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 8
• Originally published in 1981, this book describes day services for adults, a relatively recent development in health and social services at the time. ... Lees meer

Decision in Child Care

R a Parker

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 27
• Responsible decisions are continually being made in social work. In particular the decision to place a child in a foster home can have far-reaching co... Lees meer

Caring for People

National Council of Social Service

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 2
• In the 1960s, the work of caring for the quarter of a million people - men, women and children - who lived in old people's homes, approved schools, ho... Lees meer

Social Policy and Administration Revisited

David Donnison, Valerie Chapman, Michael Meacher, Angela Sears, Kenneth Urwin

• Paperback | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library
• Originally published in 1965, this standard work sets out to explore the questions: What is 'social administration', and how can people prepare themse... Lees meer

A Place Like Home

W David Wills

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 37
• The late David Wills spent a lifetime in the service of the so-called delinquent, the misfit, the maladjusted. He was the first Englishman to train as... Lees meer

Mental Health Social Work Observed

Mike Fisher, Clive Newton, Eric Sainsbury

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 12
• Despite extensive changes in the organisation of social and psychiatric services, there had been no study of mental health social work in the UK since... Lees meer

Across the Generations

Roger Hadley, Adrian Webb, Christine Farrell

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 20
• Voluntary work is sometimes praised, sometimes criticised, but was seldom the subject of objective evaluation. Given the importance of the voluntary s... Lees meer

New Developments in Casework

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 40
• Originally published in 1966, this book gives examples of the most advanced thought about casework by well-known writers in England and the United Sta... Lees meer

Problems, Tasks and Outcomes

E Matilda Goldberg, Jane Gibbons, Ian Sinclair

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 17
• In the 1980s, although most social workers organised their time and described their work in terms of cases, research studies had cast serious doubts o... Lees meer

Mother and Baby Homes

Jill Nicholson

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 25
• During the 1960s there had been much discussion about the plight of the unmarried mother and her child; but very little of it had been based on fact. ... Lees meer

Education for Social Work

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 42
• Some outstanding contributions to a better understanding of the issues of education for social work have been brought together in this volume, origina... Lees meer

Sheltered Housing for the Elderly

Alan Butler, Christine Oldman, John Greve

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 7
• In the early-1980s, the ten million people of retirement age in the UK figured prominently among the disadvantaged and deprived. They were heavily ove... Lees meer

Group Work

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 24
• Group work is central to social work, whether it be work with individuals and families, residential care, community work, management or social work ed... Lees meer

Community Work

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 5
• The growth of interest in community work during the seventies was very marked. But while much had been written on the actual practice of community wor... Lees meer

The Supportive Network

G Clare Wenger

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 36
• Much previous research on elderly people had focused on their problems, and had created an impression of a group of isolated individuals suffering fro... Lees meer

Social Work and Ethnicity

• Hardcover | Engels | National Institute Social Services Library | nr. 9
• Originally published in 1982 Social Work and Ethnicity was the first purpose-written text for social work students, administrators and practitioners d... Lees meer