Textbooks
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Effective Writing for Social Work
Making a Difference
Drawing on both research and examples from practice, this book offers students an insight into the nature and challenges of writing in social work practice, enabling them to improve their writing skills.
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Social policy for social welfare professionals
Tools for understanding, analysis and engagement
An indispensible guide to the basics of social policy aimed at students of social work and other welfare professions.
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Critical community practice
This book provides a challenging approach to understanding community practice.It offers a much-needed theoretical perspective, setting out an analysis of power and empowerment and exploring new ways of understanding active citizenship.
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Radical social work in practice
Making a difference
This much-needed textbook provides a fresh understanding of the radical tradition and shows how it can be developed in contemporary social work.
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Encountering the World with I-docs
Interactive Documentary as a Research Method
This book examines the values of interactive documentary as a social research method, exploring their exciting potential for illuminating and communicating pressing social issues. Providing a template for planning an i-doc, the novel book shows how the planning process alone can open new ways of understanding social research topics.
Doing Phenomenography
A Practical Guide
This practical handbook is aimed at students who are new to phenomenograpy - a popular research method for its versatility in understanding people’s perceptions. Enabling readers to decide on the appropriateness of the phenomenographic approach for their own research project, it equips them with the necessary tools to embark on their journey.
Photovoice Reimagined
Over the past decades ‘photovoice’ has emerged as a participatory and creative research method where participants capture and discuss their reality through photographs. This unprecedented ‘how-to’ book takes novice and experienced researchers through the practicalities and ethics of applying this approach.
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Better Partnership Working Complete Set
SAVE MONEY AND BUY THE COMPLETE BETTER PARTNERSHIP WORKING SET!
This exciting series of accessible 'how to' books provides an essential introduction to partnership working.
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The community development reader
History, themes and issues
This unique Reader traces the changing fortunes of community development through a selection of readings from key writers.
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Digital Sociologies
This is the first book to connect digital media technologies in digital sociology to traditional sociological and offers a much needed overview of it. It includes problems of the digital age in relation to inequality and identity, making it suitable for use for a global audience on a variety of courses.
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Irish Social Policy
A Critical Introduction
This second edition of a highly successful textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to social policy in Ireland addressing a range of social policy topics of growing importance in contemporary Irish society including issues related to children, service users and groups, migration, ethnicity, sexuality and climate change.
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Forensic Psychology, Crime and Policing
Key Concepts and Practical Debates
A key resource for students, academics and practitioners, this concise guide brings together vital concepts on forensic psychology, crime and policing. Including criminal behaviour, police decision making and crime scene investigation, each entry provides a clear overview of the topic together with sample questions and further reading.
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