Books published by Open University Press

Social workers are often faced with issues of substance misuse, whether they work in children's services, adult services or mental health. This title offers a practical guide for social workers to refer to on a day-to-day basis. It assist students and social workers in: understanding drug and alcohol misuse; and, assessing the risks.

Takes you through the main methods, tools and approaches used by health researchers and uses examples and case studies to highlight good and bad practice in research. This title provides guidance on critical thinking and writing, to assist you in interpreting research articles and judging their worth.

To help education professionals make sense of the varied approaches, policies and concepts currently applied in practice with children and young people with SEN.

This book focuses on clarifying the adult role in early childhood education & care amongst new initiatives in the current context.

Providing an integrative family-based approach to addressing psychological and relational needs of distressed children and their parents.

Offers those working in mental health settings a practical guide to writing great care plans. Featuring chapters on care planning in primary care, community care and acute care, this title highlights the challenges of care planning, evidence available in each area, the knowledge needed by practitioner and the skills needed to work with clients.

Skills in advocacy are essential for every social work student and practitioner. This book provides an introduction to advocacy, examining the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to undertake advocacy roles and work constructively with the growing number of independent advocates.

Framed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (2010) standards for pre-registration nursing education and written by experts in the field, this book explains which interventions are most effective for each of the most common mental health disorders. It also shows you how these interventions work in practice and illustrates the skills required.

A workbook that is written for social work students and includes both theory and a range of exercises. It also looks at working in teams and with other professions, how to use supervision effectively to enhance professional development, keeping safe, and strategies for managing risk to self.

This book considers theory and recent research on children's social and emotional development, highlighting the implications for effective practice in promoting positive behaviour.

Understanding Your Eating can help you if the way you use food bothers you, helping you understand how emotions affect our eating and how we change.

This book provides practical guidance on processes of researching a range of relevant literature on a subject, planning and writing a literature review.

This is a public health text aimed at bridging the gap between current public health values and skills and those required to tackle future challenges.

This innovative, practical book supports primary schools in rethinking where teaching & learning in primary science and technology should take place.

Supervision in Action aims to help professional and trainee supervisors, consultants and coaches to `take care of themselves' - in other words, the art of learning from their own experience in their practice.

Suitable for students on placement in adult services or voluntary organizations and social work practitioners working with older people, this title offers an approach to working with older people and provides an introduction to the legislation, policy, theory and research needed by social workers.

Ethics underpin all aspects of nursing activity but the concepts can often seem remote or inaccessible. This book explores and helps answer questions such as: What are rights?; What is dignity?; How are nurses accountable?; How does the law relate to ethics?; and What is a dignified death?

Taking a self-coaching approach, this book enablse you to understand how to navigate your way through the various challenges posed by PhD study with resilience, self-sufficiency, and the determination to succeed. It is packed with techniques, tips and tricks that are applicable to a range of circumstances both within the PhD process and beyond.

This book offers practitioners working with 11-14 year olds, a highly practical education resource for running well being lessons.

Offers an exploration of the history of public health and the development of health services over the centuries. This book surveys the rise and redefinition of public health since the sanitary revolution of the mid-nineteenth century, assessing the reforms in the post World War II years and the coming of welfare states.

Suitable for student and qualified paramedics looking to understand the key elements of research, and what it means for their profession, this guide to the sometimes daunting world of research and evidence-based practice helps you get to grips with the nature of paramedic research and how it works in practice.

Interprofessional working is integral to an integrated workforce supporting children. This book turns interprofessional rhetoric into reality.

An introduction to qualitative methods, combining a solid grounding in theory with a guide to conducting investigations and critical assessment.

This book provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of the basic education disciplines for undergraduates on Education Studies courses.