Working with Offenders

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Significant changes have occurred in recent years in the nature and delivery of social work services to offenders and their families. Working with Off... Lees meer

Women Who Offend

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Presenting research that will underpin effective practice with women who offend, this unique and thought-provoking text aims to help professionals mee... Lees meer

Social Work and Evidence-Based Practice

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Evidence-based practice - what it might mean, how it can be achieved, whether it should be aspired to - is the subject of much debate and argument in ... Lees meer

Reconceptualising Work with 'Carers'

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• In the wake of the profound changes in policy and practice around caring over the past ten years, this volume takes a fresh look at the social and leg... Lees meer

Co-Production and Personalisation in Social Care

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• This book explores the theory and practice of the developing innovative practice of 'co-production' - a model of service in which users of a service w... Lees meer

The Changing Role of Social Care

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Focusing on the enormous organisational and cultural changes that local authority social services have undergone since the 1990 NHS and Community Care... Lees meer

Youth Offending and Youth Justice

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justic... Lees meer

Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement provides a definitive introduction to practical, philosophical and theoretical issues at the heart of ... Lees meer

Challenging Child Protection

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Challenging Child Protection offers a ground-breaking new perspective which will illuminate and improve the professional understanding and practice of... Lees meer

Adult Day Services and Social Inclusion

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Placing adult day services within the whole spectrum of social provision and support, the contributors to this key text explore their complementary ro... Lees meer

Mental Health and Social Work

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Examining the theory and practice of work with people with mental health problems, this volume considers the current state of policy and organisation ... Lees meer

Violence Against Women

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Violence against women is a pervasive problem in society and responding appropriately to those who experience it and those who perpetrate it is a cons... Lees meer

Developments in Social Work with Offenders

Peter Raynor, Gill McIvor

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across ... Lees meer

Social Work: Disabled People and Disabling Environments

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• This book redefines the issue of disability as a social rather than an individual problem and considers the implications of this view for the provisio... Lees meer

Reparation and Victim-Focused Social Work

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Reparation and the place of the victim in the criminal justice process have been the focus of recent legislation and policy initiatives. As a result p... Lees meer

Leadership in Social Care

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Social care needs excellent leaders now more than ever. Effective leaders aim high, listen to what the service users want and need, inspire their staf... Lees meer

Residential Child Care

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Residential Child Care draws on the latest research to offer guidance for developing best practice, policy and improved outcomes for children and youn... Lees meer

Transition and Change in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• One claim made for the policy of care in the community was that it would rescue people with intellectual disabilities from social marginality. To what... Lees meer

Growing Up with Disability

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Growing Up with Disability encompasses a wide range of perspectives on childhood impairment and its social implications. The book adopts a child-centr... Lees meer

Child Abuse & Child Abusers

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Based on both research and practice, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the success, fairness and significance of child protection services... Lees meer

Managing Front Line Practice in Social Care

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Written by key figures in the field of social care training and management this much-needed book provides practice guidance for front line managers in... Lees meer

Substance Misuse

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Substance misuse and its pervasive problems is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professionals today. With heightened political... Lees meer

Public Services Inspection in the UK

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Public Services Inspection in the UK provides a detailed account of the changing role of inspection in public services management. It analyses the key... Lees meer

Social Work Education and Training

• Paperback | Engels | Research Highlights in Social Work
• Excellent social work education and training is vital for ensuring best practice, and it is important to understand the key approaches and methods in ... Lees meer