Promoting health and wellbeing is an essential part of all effective social work. This text encourages thinking about the social, political, cultural, emotional, spiritual, economic and spatial aspects of health and wellbeing, and how they impact on the unique strengths and challenges of working with particular populations and communities.

This book provides essential knowledge and skills to address all the new social work education requirements for placements and practice learning. It will help students to successfully pass your compulsory social work placement whilst meeting the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) for Social Workers and developing your professional practice.

Helps in developing an understanding of two key approaches to placement study: critical thinking and reflective practice. This book also includes a chapter on using the reflective and critical skills to prepare for the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE).

This book provides a grounding for students following the social work with adults PQ pathway.

A user-friendly book that explores and reflects on effective practice in this key area of the social work curriculum, children and families.

Exploring the key theoretical approaches and methods of intervention with older people, this uniquely positive, practical book helps social workers to identify, understand and facilitate their service-users' wishes for wellbeing and a fulfilling older age.

This new textbook examines the knowledge, skills and values that underpin and inform current social work practice and processes. With a clear focus on skills, social work processes and the suitability of different methods, Watson offers students a toolkit for applying theoretical frameworks to actual practice situations.

Social Work Research in Practice

A leading text in the field of social work skills and methods, illustrating how these two are linked, with a grounding in theory.

Social work supervision in large part determines the job satisfaction of social workers and thus the quality of the service provided.

The second edition of a text mapping directly onto a core module of the undergraduate social work degree: theories and methods. Chapters are written by a range of contributors from universities including Lancaster, Birmingham, Nottingham, York, UCLAN, UEA, Manchester and Glasgow.

Help students understand how theory impacts and informs social work practice across a range of contexts and with different service user groups

This accessible book demonstrates how managers and practitioners can overcome workplace distress, fatigue and burnout by understanding the causes and implementing practical strategies. The book is full of techniques and tips that will be invaluable to all social work managers and practitioners seeking to beat workplace stress overload and burnout.

Helps support students to learn how the Mental Capacity Act operates, what its key principles are when applied to safeguarding adults and how these two principles interact and inform one another.

A definitive textbook on adult services, bringing the topic alive for students with a perspective and depth of understanding.

Martin Davies brings together contributors from a range of universities and practice backgrounds to provide incisive perspectives on this complex field. One half of a unique duet of texts, this book explores the issues within policy, law, theory and research, which will define practice for the next generation of adult social workers.

Martin Davies brings together contributors from a range of universities and practice backgrounds to provide incisive perspectives on this complex field. One half of a unique duet of texts, this book explores the issues within policy, law, theory and research, which will define practice for the next generation of child and family social workers.

'An excellent introduction to social work with children and families. It links practice with legislation and highlights relevant research findings'. - Mr Dan Burrows, Cardiff School of Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University

A complete guide to effective social work with children and families in Scotland.

The fourth edition offers thoroughly revised and updated material by a team of respected authors. The evolving roles of the social worker, the public and the disabled person are discussed and debated in light of policy developments and against the contemporary backdrop of the social work framework within the UK.