Books in the Transforming Social Work Practice Series series

Split into three parts, this book considers what is meant by disadvantage and marginalisation, how this can come about and the impact this may have on lives, before unpicking the key knowledge and skills needed to practice effectively with individuals and groups.

A clear and accessible introduction to the complex issues surrounding mental health.

A text on working with aggressive or resistant groups and individuals

A quick, clear and interesting guide for students completing their final year research project.

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

Safeguarding is a serious and complex area of social work practice and for all students, demonstrating an understanding of important safeguarding theory, law, policy and skills for practice is essential. Students need to understand what safeguarding is and means across the life course, and this new text brings together common themes and knowledge in safeguarding across children, young people and adult social work to do just that. This approach will encourage students to approach the subject from a holistic perspective, helping them develop their understanding of core themes and transferable skills for practice.

This is a complete social worker's guide to undertaking qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research.

Part of the Transforming Social Work Practice series, this title intends to support students on the social work degree. It seeks to confirm and strenghten social work values and principles so that the progress and successes achieved by 'Valuing People' can continue.

This book offers students a solid grounding in the core knowledge and skills of communication needed for effective practice. It takes the key theories and explains them in a systematic and practice-related way, to help undergraduate and postgraduate students develop a critical understanding of the subject.

A complete guide to youth justice for social workers.

The first textbook to introduce student social workers specifically to the participation and involvement of service users and carers in social work practice.

Covers essential skills of working with this client group in detail - communicating, listening and understanding children's behaviour.

This comprehensive textbook engages in the essential discussion of what professional leadership means in the context of contemporary social work and why this is considered to be important for the future of the profession.

This is a popular guide to a complex and demanding area of practice that looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and the social worker's role in working with them. There are chapters on communication and children's rights, life story work, attachment and culture, as well as ethnicity and faith.

This timely and fully revised second edition provides an overview of the personalisation agenda and looks at the recent legislation in a broad historical and theoretical perspective. This approach will provide opportunities for students to consider the changes to the social work role and to evaluate the impact of this for service users and as practitioners.

This book introduces policy and shows how it has changed and evolved over time, how it reflects changes in society, and how it is applied to everyday practice.

This timely and clear introduction to values and ethics in social work practice places an emphasis on advocacy and empowerment, and how the beginning social worker can start to apply these concepts. This will, in turn, help social work students develop their understanding by showing them how ethics can have positive impacts on the lives of vulnerable people.

It is essential that social work students have a clear grasp of the history and the evolution of social work practice and this classic text explores the fundamental questions: What is social work? How has social work been defined over the years? What does social work look like now? And what is to come?

'Hatton's book is a welcome antidote to stagnation and moribund thinking in contemporary professional practice and readers will gain much from engaging with the concepts he sets out and the challenges he raises.'Jonathan Parker, Series Editor

A beginner's guide to critical thinking and learning for social work

This book will equip social work students with the skills they need to meet the new and perennial challenges to achieving empowering practice with carers and people who use services.

'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

This is a student guide to effective and ethically sound observation in social work practice.

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

Takes students through a step-by-step approach into the Care Act 2014 by bringing key legislation into the focus of social work law.

Takes students through a step-by-step approach into the Care Act 2014 by bringing key legislation into the focus of social work law.