SOCIAL WORK

Learn how to get the most from your placements with this user-friendly text. The bestselling Making the Most of Field Placement offers a practice-b...

Contemporary global challenges require practitioners to confidently analyse the dominant discourses and develop frameworks and strategies for futur...

The Road to Social Work and Human Service Practice gives you a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of practice in both social work and the hu...

A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entri...

This exciting new textbook introduces students to the key aspects of the law and legal frameworks essential for social work practice in Australia. ...

Essential guide to better communication in practice Communication is a core skill for all healthcare professionals, regardless of their specific di...

This popular and innovative core text book explores contemporary social work theories and perspectives in a systematic way, using an integrated and...

  Designed for people undertaking a first professional qualification in either social work or welfare studies to use. This student cohort can incl...

PRINT ON DEMAND 6-8 WEEKS Critical social work encourages emancipatory personal and social change. This text focuses on the challenge of incorporat...

PRINT ON DEMAND 6-8 WEEKS TO ARRIVE This important new book critically examines the complex policy and practice issues surrounding child protection...

Essential guide to better communication in practice Communication is a core skill for all healthcare professionals, regardless of their specific di...

  Interpersonal Communication: Relating to Others emphasises the importance of communication confidence in a variety of interpersonal relationships...

  The bestselling Developing Communities introduces you to the practices and principles of community development. It offers insights into the chal...

At a time of growing social, economic and environmental challenge, this book offers a fresh and engaging perspective on the connections between soc...

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This book takes the student step-by-step through the core processes of social work. It introduces four essential elements (assessment, planning int...

 In this widely used course text and practitioner resource, Froma Walsh provides a state-of-the-art framework for understanding resilience in famil...

This book gives voice to the direct practice experience of social workers working in rural and remote contexts using Australia as the primary case-...

  Group Work with Populations a Risk, Fourth Edition is a fundamental resource for practitioners in health and mental health settings and a compreh...

  Focussing on the epistemic: the way in which knowledge is understood, constructed, transmitted and used, this book shows the way social work know...

This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society. It explores how theory and research ca...

A vital part of a social worker's role is to build strong relationships based on confidence and trust, with people across all stages of the life co...

As a social worker, you could work in a variety of different organisations, each with their own purpose, culture and structure. Understanding and e...