A comprehensive and practical guide to social work assessment.

A complete guide to preparing for, carrying out and writing up a social work assignment or project, this book uses friendly advice and practical guidance to support students at every stage, whether writing up quantitative research findings or carrying out a literature review.

This new and fully updated edition of a hugely popular textbook is a practical and user-friendly guide that lets students know what to expect from their course and will be there every step of the way as a reference tool.

The book offers advice on how to get the most from supervision and explains the importance of ethics and political context within the research process. Use of social theory within research is explored, with suggestions of ways in which different theories can influence and help to contextualise social research.

The book guides the student through the research process relevant to the completion of a social work dissertation.

This volume provides an overview of social work education, including the background and current context. It covers the key debates surrounding social work education, such as the evaluation of Social Work Education, the use of IT, research mindedness, and the effectiveness of interdisciplinary education.

A clear and concise guide to social work in a modern, digital society.

This book endeavours to explore and depict the myriad shades of social work as conceptualised and practised in different parts of the world. It makes a modest attempt at examining and critically analysing some of the current social work issues and policy drivers.

Offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. This book encourages examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make it more culturally relevant. It addresses the history of social work in African countries and the hegemony of western knowledge in the field.

This book uses key sociological concepts and theories to help student social workers better understand the nature of their work and the context within which they will be working.

Bringing together a range of scholarly reflections and writings on the different roles of a social worker in the field of mental health, this book provides a holistic picture to introduce readers to the wider issues of social work and mental health practice.

Brings together a range of scholarly reflections and writings on the different roles of a social worker in the field of mental health. This book provides a holistic picture to introduce readers to the wider issues of social work and mental health practice. It begins with an exploration of the context of social work practice.

This ground-breaking book provides invaluable insight into the diverse nature of social work practice within the British Isles. The contributors explore key differences in social work's role and character, and the legal systems and organisational structures in which it operates in the different regions.

This book on effective social work intervention will help students apply and integrate this knowledge in practice, to critically evaluate different methods and to choose the most the effective in any particular set of circumstances.

A clearly framed and comprehensive introduction to practice methods, this important text explores how methods and skills can be combined to offer a versatile professional toolkit for practice. It interrogates the social work process within a range of settings, including working with involuntary clients, and within community and family settings.

This book describes the local and national politics, professional concerns and public interest that surrounded the inquiry following the death of Maria Colwell in 1973.

By drawing from biological, psychological and sociological perspectives, the book aims to provide social work students with a theoretically informed basis to observe, understand, and interpret people's behaviours in ways that will contribute to excellent practice.

This book explains the wide basis of perspectives on which we build an understanding of people's behaviours and why we respond in the way we do.

Placements can be one of the most exciting parts of your social work training but also one of the most daunting. This guide helps you to make the most of your practice learning opportunities. It highlights how you can make the most of your placement, as well as anticipating some of the problem areas and pitfalls to avoid.

The portfolio is an essential part of the summative assessment within qualifying social work programmes. This book shows how students can use the portfolio to demonstrate their learning in terms of developing core knowledge, values and skills.

Covering a range of methods, theory and contexts, this book bridges the gap between theory and practice with new reflection, placement and research-based features. A thoroughly updated edition of a renowned text, it provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to professional practice in social work.