Social Work Practice

Veronica Coulshed, Joan Orme

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 68
• This trusted textbook for both students and practitioners has sold over 75,000 copies across its four previous editions. This comprehensive text is di... Lees meer

Social Work Practice and Intellectual Disability

Christine Bigby, Patsie Frawley

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 59
• Read this book to gain an understanding of the knowledge, values and skills required for effective practice in the field of intellectual disability an... Lees meer

Problems of Childhood and Adolescence

Michael Kerfoot, Alan Butler

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 30
• Successfully achieves its stated aim of being an introductory text for students and newly-qualified social workers ... a valuable addition to their bo... Lees meer

Anti-Racist Social Work

Lena Dominelli

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 71
• Fully revised and updated throughout, this fourth edition of Lena Dominelli's influential book retains its reputation as the go-to text on anti-racist... Lees meer

Anti-Discriminatory Practice

Neil Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 28
• Now going into its seventh edition, Neil Thompson's Anti-Discriminatory Practice has been providing a trusted introduction to the challenges of promot... Lees meer

Self-Help, Social Work and Empowerment

Robert Adams

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work
• A study on self-help and how social workers relate to it and how they may develop integral self-help. It looks at how to facilitate self-help and how ... Lees meer

Crisis Intervention in Social Services

Kieran O'Hagan

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 41
• This book could only have been written by a social worker. It is full of energy, laced with pathos and humour, and the warts are not only visible but ... Lees meer

Effective Practice with Looked After Children

Robin Sen

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 67
• Since the key developments that policy and research have undergone over the course of the past years, meeting the specific needs of looked after child... Lees meer

Practice Learning and Teaching

Mark Doel, Stephen Shardlow

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 49
• Recognising the centrality of the practice placement in preparing students to become effective social workers, this book offers practical guidance to ... Lees meer

Criminology for Social Work

David Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 31
• Criminology for Social Work critically reviews the major strands in criminological theory and research in terms of their implications for social worke... Lees meer

Citizen Involvement

Peter Beresford, Suzy Croft

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 4
• This book offers the first introduction and practical guide to increasing people's say and involvement in their lives, neighbourhood and services. It ... Lees meer

Community Development, Social Action and Social Planning

Alan C Twelvetrees

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 74
• Now going into its fifth edition, Alan Twelvetrees' invaluable guide to the theory and practice of community work has been educating students and prac... Lees meer

Criminology for Social Work

David Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 40
• Criminology for Social Work critically reviews the major strands in criminological theory and research in terms of their implications for social worke... Lees meer

Working with Offenders

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 26
• Quite simply, it is the most useful book on probation work that I have ever read.' - Rob Voakes, Probation Journal Lees meer

Social Work with Children

Gordon Jack, Helen Donnellan

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 69
• When working with children to promote their welfare and safeguard them from harm, the best course of action is not always clear. Based on two of the m... Lees meer

Supporting Families

Terence O'Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 72
• From time to time all families face predicaments, and use their own resources to overcome them. However, sometimes these resources are insufficient an... Lees meer

Developing Research Based Social Work Practice

Joan Orme, David Shemmings

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 60
• This book explores how research can improve the quality of social work. It provides an overview of the core theoretical concepts and the processes and... Lees meer

Communication in Social Work

Joyce Lishman

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 75
• Effective communication is a vital part of the social worker's job. This welcome new edition of a classic text provides students and practitioners wit... Lees meer

Working with Violence

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 24
• This timely text examines the experiences of women working with the effects of male violence in a range of key areas: with rape survivors, with batter... Lees meer

Reflective Social Work Practice

Richard Ingram, Jane Fenton, Ann Hodson

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 14
• This book provides social workers with a framework for reflecting on their day-to-day practice. Using a social worker's diary as a starting point, it ... Lees meer

Applied Research for Better Practice

Angela Everitt, Pauline Hardiker, Jane Littlewood, Audrey Mullender

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 19
• Addressing the alienation of practitioners from positivist and quantitative research, this book shows how research can be compatible with how practiti... Lees meer

Sociology in Social Work Practice

Peter R Day

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 3
• All social work activity is influenced by the society in which it takes place. It is therefore inescapable that understanding sociology should help so... Lees meer

Effective Probation Practice

Peter Raynor, David Smith, Maurice Vanstone

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 58
• Drawing on the authors' experience of research and practice in probation, the book provides a positive and realistic view of the contribution the prob... Lees meer

Dealing with Stress

Michael Murphy, Steve Stradling, Neil Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Practical Social Work | nr. 44
• Dealing with Stress tackles the complex issues of pressure and stress in social work. It covers aspects of research and theory but its main focus is o... Lees meer