Pocketbook guide full of practical advice for social workers for conducting home visits in child protection.

This book will help you by showing how to beat twenty of the most common causes of student stress. It describes the symptom, gives a diagnosis and offers tried and tested remedies.

Argues that we are entering another stage in the construction of the young as the demarcations between education, entertainment and advertising collapse and as the lines between the generations both blur and harden. This book provokes us to ponder the role of the school in the 'age of desire'.

To help education professionals make sense of the varied approaches, policies and concepts currently applied in practice with children and young people with SEN.

This book considers and interrogates a range of new and critical issues in contemporary early childhood education.

An introduction to the diverse settings of social work, detailing the relevant policy context, methods and approaches.

Disability Studies is an arena of critical debate addressing controversial issues concerning, not just the meaning of disability, but the nature of society, dominant values, quality of life, and even the right to live. This book, written specifically to raise questions and stimulate debate, covers a wide range of specific and substantive issues.

Controversial Issues in Prisons is a textbook designed to explore eight of the most controversial aspects of imprisonment in England and Wales today. It is primarily a book about the people who are sent to prison and what happens to them when inside.