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Supporting Adult Care-Leavers: International Good Practice
Paperback,
14/12/2015,
£27.99
£25.19
Featuring detailed case studies and examples of good practice, this is an excellent international source book for practitioners and policy makers in social work and social care.
Young People Leaving Care: Supporting Pathways to Adulthood
Paperback,
15/07/2012,
£27.99
£22.00
An authoritative text highlighting the key issues affecting young people taking the step from leaving care to adulthood. Covers relevant research, policy and practice, and advises on how best to understand, prepare and support young people.
Creating Compassionate Foster Care: Lessons of Hope from Children and Families in Crisis
Paperback,
21/06/2017,
£14.99
£13.49
Principles of effective foster care are rooted in personal narratives drawn from over 20 years of experience of social care work. With innovative care models and compelling case studies, the authors reflect on current principles and practice, while identifying and recommending the need for change in certain areas.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Schools: A 360-Degree View of the Research and Practice Principles
Paperback,
19/05/2017,
£32.99
£29.69
This Second Edition is part of the School Social Work Association of America Oxford Workshop Series and contains updates on applying Solution-focused Brief Therapy to specific problem areas that school social workers frequently encounter. Clinical case examples have been expanded to provide to incorporate a Response to Intervention approach.
Working with Adolescents: Supporting Families, Preventing Breakdown
Paperback,
01/01/2005,
£12.95
£11.66
Practical Guide to Early Intervention and Family Support: Assessing Needs and Building Resilience in Families Affected by Parental Mental Health Problems or Substance Misuse
Paperback,
21/01/2016,
£24.99
£22.49
A handbook for practitioners on early intervention and effective ways to support vulnerable families, this book looks at a number of the challenges practitioners face and presents strategies for overcoming the common obstacles. This third edition has been updated to reflect current policy and practice.
Innovative Approaches to Supporting Families of Young Children
Hardback,
02/08/2016,
£59.99
£53.99
Introducing strengths-based programs for families of young children in critical social contexts: family, school, community and policy, this book describes a wide range of systems/contextual approaches based in current understanding of children s development, stress and resilience in families, and the two-generational approach to intervention.
Family Support: Prevention, Early Intervention and Early Help
Paperback,
02/10/2015,
£19.99
£17.99
Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people. Drawing on contemporary thinking and research, the book aims to make a contribution to current debates about how we can best support families in need.
Understanding Family Support: Policy, Practice and Theory
Paperback,
21/04/2016,
£22.99
£20.69
Offering an overview and fully integrated account of family support, this book is ideal for anyone involved in preparing or delivering family support, as well as for students and lecturers on the subject.
Child Protection in the Early Years: A Practical Guide
Paperback,
21/03/2018,
£18.99
£17.09
Since the risk of abuse is highest in the early years, it's vital that those working with young children understand how to support children who have encountered abuse. This is a straightforward, practical guide to creating safe environments for these children, including exercises, case studies, and tips on working individually and in teams.
Conversation Starters for Direct Work with Children and Young People: Guidance and Activities for Talking About Difficult Subjects
Paperback,
19/04/2018,
£19.99
£17.99
This is a direct work book on how to start conversations on difficult subjects with children and young people. Covering challenging topics such as suicide, domestic violence, drug or alcohol misuse, as well as giving evidence in court, this book also includes examples and activity ideas to help support and guide the child.
Emotional politics of social work and child protection
Paperback,
12/01/2015,
£25.99
£23.39
This book introduces the concept of emotional politics. It shows how collective emotions, such as anger, shame, fear and disgust, are generated and reflected by official documents, politicians and the media.
Protecting children: A social model
Paperback,
23/08/2018,
£23.99
£21.59
This book explores the policy and practice possibilities offered by a social model of child protection. Drawing on developments in mental health and disability studies, it examines the conceptual, political and practice implications of this new framework.
Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Child Protection: Current Debates and New Directions
Paperback,
13/01/2017,
£31.99
£28.79
For decades, child protection systems have striven to provide responsive services to vulnerable children and families in the face of the constant change and instability caused by the bureaucratization of child protection.
Child-Centred Social Work: Theory and Practice
Paperback,
26/02/2018,
£27.99
£25.19
With an emphasis on professional expectations, values and practice skills such as building trust, listening and advocacy, this textbook helps enable social workers base their practice with children and young people on a truly child-centred model.
Hackney Child
Paperback,
30/01/2014,
£8.99
£8.09
A brilliantly written true story of growing up in Hackney in the 1970s and 80s, surviving poverty, alcoholic parents and the care system
Cultural Diversity in Child Protection: Cultural Competence in Practice
Paperback,
18/04/2019,
£28.99
£26.09
Racial, ethnic and religious diversity requires social workers to safeguard children and support families from many different minority backgrounds.
The authors examine face-to-face social work practice with children, parents, their partners and other family members from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.
A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions
Paperback,
16/04/2018,
£16.99
£15.29
Parents of children with attachment difficulties, or who have experienced childhood trauma, need to parent differently to meet their child's specific needs and help them start to make sense of the world. This book is everything you need in order to therapeutically parent, with an easy to apply model of intervention, and an A-Z of practical advice.
The Short Guide to Working with Children and Young People
Paperback,
20/02/2013,
£15.99
£14.39
The short guide to working with children and young people is an accessible introduction into the main concepts, developments and policy related to this exciting area of work.
The State of It: Stories from the Frontline of a Broken Care System
Paperback,
03/02/2022,
£8.99
£8.09
Developing Knowledge and Skills for Child and Family Social Work
Paperback,
24/03/2022,
£21.99
£19.79
Using case studies, activities and research summaries, this accessible guide to child and family social work will provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to practice with confidence.
The Children's Inquiry: How the state and society failed the young during the Covid-19 pandemic
Paperback,
30/06/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
An expose of society's mistreatment of children during the pandemic.
Making a Difference with Children and Families: Re-imagining the Role of the Practitioner
Paperback,
02/06/2020,
£27.99
£25.19
Safeguarding Adults and Children: Dilemmas and Complex Practice
Paperback,
25/08/2016,
£33.99
£30.59
Managing Family Meltdown : The Low Arousal Approach and Autism
Paperback,
15/12/2009,
£13.99
£12.59
This book offers strategies to resolve common challenging behaviours using a low arousal approach - a non-aversive approach based on avoiding confrontation and reducing stress. It explains challenging behaviours, and offers guidance on how families can manage different types of challenging behaviour, such as physical aggression and self-injury.
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
Paperback,
19/12/2008,
£34.99
£31.49
Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls. This book draws on this revolutionary legacy, feminism and post-structuralism to critically examine perceptions of women, girls and child abuse in psychology, psychiatry and the mass media, and to re-evaluate mainstream and feminist approaches to this subject.
Young Children's Rights: Exploring Beliefs, Principles and Practice 2ed
Paperback,
11/03/2008,
£29.99
£26.99
This readable, informative and thought-provoking book is a compelling invitation to rethink our attitudes to young children's rights in the light of new theories, research and practical evidence about children's daily lives. It will be of interest to anyone who works with young children.
Anti-discriminatory Practice: A Guide for Those Working with Children and Young People 3ed
Paperback,
27/01/2011,
£25.99
£23.39
A guide to promoting inclusive practice in childcare and educational settings taking into account children's cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds. It covers topics such as: race, religion and culture; major religions beliefs; the role of play and development; and identity and self-esteem.
Working with Children and Young People: Co-construcing Practice
Paperback,
03/11/2010,
£36.99
£33.29
A timely reader of interest to a wide academic discipline base, providing a critical account and new theoretical perspectives on practical issues arising in working with children of all ages and their families. Uniquely, it brings together discussion of early years with later childhood, including adolescence and transitions into adulthood.
Neglected Children And Their Families 2ed
Paperback,
29/05/2007,
£36.25
£32.63
This new edition of Olive Stevenson's highly respected text is updated throughout to include the latest policy and research developments, and expanded to include greater consideration of topics such as the impact of parental mental health, substance abuse and alcoholism on parental capacity and the issue of parents with learning disabilities.
Developing multi-professional teamwork for integrated children's services 2ed
Paperback,
01/06/2010,
£25.99
£23.39
This book is an important practical resource for all professionals engaged with planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice in children's services.
Improving Inter-Professional Collaborations
Paperback,
30/01/2009,
£36.99
£33.29
Interprofessional collaborations to prevent the social exclusion of children and young people call for new professional skills and understandings. This book draws on an examination of these ways of working to make clear what these new skills and understandings are and how they can be developed.
Children in Society
Paperback,
27/11/2000,
£37.99
£34.19
This reader provides a critical account of the theoretical and practical issues raised in working with children and families. It draws on debates from a range of disciplines to shed light on different perspectives, forms of practice and dimensions of policy.
Safeguarding Children in Primary Health Care
Paperback,
15/06/2009,
£24.99
£22.49
This book provides an overview of the challenges primary health care professionals now face in recognising and responding to concerns about a child's safety from abuse and neglect. It provides practical accounts and perspectives from a range of frontline practitioners, backed up by theoretical insights from leading academics in the field.
Children's Perspectives on Domestic Violence
Paperback,
15/11/2002,
£37.99
£34.19
Drawing on the newest research designed to hear the voices of children and young people, this important book examines children's experiences and perspectives on living with domestic violence.
Safeguarding and Child Protection for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors: A Practical Guide 2ed
Paperback,
01/11/2015,
£31.99
£28.79
A practical guide to the full spectrum of safeguarding children work, from prevention to statutory intervention and serious case review.
Containment and Reciprocity: Integrating Psychoanalytic Theory and Child Development Research for Work with Children
Paperback,
12/04/2007,
£32.99
£19.59
Shows how the psychoanalytic concept of containment and the child development concept of reciprocity can be used together to inform clinical work with young children and their families. Using extracts of mother/child interactions, this book explores the relationship between these concepts, and shows how they underpin the quality of an attachment.
Transformation of Children's Services: Examining and Debating the Complexities of Inter-professional Working
Paperback,
30/09/2011,
£44.99
£40.49
Written by authors from across the wide range of professional, policy and disciplinary groups involved in this new cross-cutting area of policy and practice, this book provides a critical analysis of the complexities of children's services transformations.
Social Work with Children and Families
Paperback,
20/03/2012,
£34.99
£31.49
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.
Freedom's Flowers: Effects of Domestic Abuse on Children
Paperback,
11/10/2012,
£10.99
£9.89
Freedoms Flowers is a book about the effects of domestic abuse on children. It is composed of firsthand accounts from these children and their mothers. Some of the children write as adults from memory and some are male. The youngest contributor is eight years old.
Conducting the Home Visit in Child Protection
Paperback,
01/09/2015,
£15.99
£14.39
Pocketbook guide full of practical advice for social workers for conducting home visits in child protection.
Good practice in child protection
Paperback,
01/09/1993,
£32.99
£29.69
Good Practice in Child Protection is a practical handbook for use by all professionals who work with child abuse cases as they get to grips with the new legislation on child protection. The book is soundly based on theory, but its main emphasis is on practice, and it includes exercises to improve practice in specific areas of child protection work.
Working Together or Pulling Apart? The National Health Service and Child Protection Networks
Paperback,
25/10/2001,
£28.99
£26.09
This book examines the contribution of the NHS to the multi-agency and inter-professional child protection process. It examines the roles played by health professionals within child protection and investigates the nature and operation of the central policy community and local provider networks.
Discovering Child Poverty
Paperback,
19/01/2005,
£23.99
£21.59
This book charts key British developments in child welfare, child poverty research and state support for children from 1800 to the present day. With direct quotations from key sources, it argues that even in the face of clear evidence of hardship the response of policy makers to child poverty has been ambivalent.
Using theory in youth & community work practice
Paperback,
11/02/2010,
£29.99
£26.99
This book will provide students on youth and community work courses with a good understanding of the range of theories that should support their practice.
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