This book will enable students to better understand key concepts and ethical and philosophical positions which will inform their assessed work and competence as a professional.

Presents an introduction to values and ethics in social work practice places an emphasis on advocacy and empowerment, and how the beginning social worker can start to apply these concepts. This book helps social work students develop their understanding by showing them how ethics can have positive impacts on the lives of vulnerable people.

Unlike most other books written on evidence-based practice, this book questions whether this method always leads to the best practice possible and analyses and critiques the approach in a reflective manner.

David Stanley introduces the bold, new leadership theory of Congruent Leadership, presenting it through a series of corporate and clinical case studies and examples, which guide the reader through the possibilities for using their own values to inform best practice.

This text discusses quality in early childhood services. It covers such issues as: involving parents and children in defining quality; research and evaluation; training and curriculum; and working in ethnically-diverse societies.

Written to challenge, stimulate and inform, this book takes a critical look at the rapidly-growing field of coaching and mentoring.

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the `Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the `Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.