Effective Communication in Criminal Justice is the perfect companion for any criminal justice course that discusses communication and writing. Authors Robert E. Grubb and K. Virginia Hemby teach students how to be both effective writers and communicators-essential skills for anyone interested in criminal justice.

An essential guide to using counselling skills and approaches with young people.

The 'holy grail' of planning, this book explains why medium term plans are important and how to actually go about constructing them.

This text offers practical advice on how to establish and maintain effective multi-agency partnership work, which improves the ECM outcome for children and young people.

This is a student guide to effective and ethically sound observation in social work practice.

Best-selling text on direct practice learning for degree students

Covering a core topic on the curriculum, this book provides students with the key knowledge and skills that they need for practice and is fully up-to-date, incorporating the findings of the Munro Report (2011).

This is the first textbook written in direct response to the Munro review of child protection. It will be valuable reading for students taking courses in social work with families, and also for practitioners across all fields who work on child protection.