SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
Re-imagining Child Protection
Towards Humane Social Work with Families
This book challenges the current child protection culture and calls for family-minded humane practice where children are understood as relational beings, parents are recognized as people with needs and hopes and families as carrying extraordinary capacities for care and protection.
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Moving on from Munro
Improving Children's Services
Four years after the publication of the influential Munro Report (2011) this important publication draws together a range of experts working in the field of child protection to critically examine what impact the reforms have had on multi agency child protection systems in this country, at both local and national level.
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Exploring the Dynamics of Personal, Professional and Interprofessional Ethics
This interdisciplinary book draws on the perspectives of forty authors from four continents to explore the dynamics of ethical dilemmas using theory, research and practice-based examples.
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Poverty and Inequality
An examination of the consequences of poverty and inequality and the challenge they pose to the engaged social work academic and practitioner.
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Personalisation
One of Britain's foremost social work academics, Peter Beresford, challenges the personalisation agenda and its consequences on service users.
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Mental Health
Jeremy Weinstein draws on case studies and his own experience to develop a new model of practice in mental health social work.
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Adult Social Care
An historical overview of adult social care that locates the roots of the current crisis in the under-valuing of older people and adults with disabilities and in the marketisation of social care over the past two decades.
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Ethics
Sarah Banks emphasises the importance of reclaiming professional ethics for social work, and outlines a preliminary framework for a situated ethics of social justice.
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Children and Families
Leading researchers from across the globe look at the negative impact neoliberalism has had on children's services.
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Inclusive Leadership in Social Work and Social Care
This critical and reflexive book looks closely at the pivotal but demanding role that leadership and management play in promoting social work and social care.
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Foundations for Youth Justice
Positive Approaches to Practice
This exciting new book outlines the state of practice now in flux within structures created by New Labour but moving in a different direction under the Coalition Government. It explores opportunities for a fresh orientation that places young people at the centre and works collaboratively to nurture strengths, competences and capital.
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Parental Conflict
Outcomes and Interventions for Children and Families
The book shows how children are affected by conflict, explores why they respond to conflict in different ways, and provides clear, practical guidance on the best ways to ameliorate the effects.
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