Research Highlights in Social Work

Adult Day Services and Social Inclusion

Better Days

Edited by Chris Clark

Placing adult day services within the whole spectrum of social provision and support, the contributors to this key text explore their complementary role alongside field social work, health care,...

The Changing Role of Social Care

Edited by Bob Hudson

Focusing on the enormous organisational and cultural changes that local authority social services have undergone since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act, this volume provides an overview of...

Child Abuse and Child Abusers

Protection and Prevention

Edited by Lorraine Waterhouse

Children and Young People in Conflict with the Law

Edited by Stewart Asquith

The contributors to this volume examine the range and nature of problem behaviours among children and young people and the changing nature of their offending.

Dementia

Challenges and New Directions

Edited by Susan Hunter

As a focus for academic and professional study, dementia has moved rapidly from the margin to the mainstream during the last decade. Understanding of this distressing condition, its aetiology...

Developing Services for Older People and their Families

Edited by Rosemary Bland

Developments in Short-term Care

Breaks and Opportunities

Edited by Kirsten Stalker

Effective Ways of Working with Children and their Families

Edited by Malcolm Hill

Effective Ways of Working with Children and their Families examines the latest evidence about the most successful forms of intervention when working with children and their familes. The...

Growing Up with Disability

Edited by Carol Robinson and Kirsten Stalker

'... this book provides a comprehensive and innovative contribution to the literature in this area. It embraces all aspects of growing up with a disability, and succinctly examines the...

Issues in Problem Drug Use and the Addictions

Behaviour, Policy and Practice

Edited by Michael Bloor and Fiona Wood

This volume reviews recent research into the nature and effects of addiction and considers the usefulness of policies which aim to prevent it. The contributors look at topics such as smoking,...

Managing Front Line Practice in Social Care

Edited by Daphne Statham

Written by key figures in the field of social care training and management this much-needed book provides practice guidance for front line managers in social care. Refocusing attention on the...

Managing Sex Offender Risk

Edited by Hazel Kemshall and Gill McIvor

Based on key research into assessment, treatment and recidivism, this book offers practical guidance on improving intervention techniques with sex offenders. The contributors explore the...

Mental Health and Social Work

Edited by Marion Ulas and Anne Connor

Examining the theory and practice of work with people with mental health problems, this volume considers the current state of policy and organisation and the changes that have taken place over...

Planning and Costing Community Care

Edited by Chris Clark and Irvine Lapsley

Reconceptualising Work with 'Carers'

New Directions for Policy and Practice

Edited by Kirsten Stalker

In the wake of the profound changes in policy and practice around caring over the past ten years, this volume takes a fresh look at the social and legal status of carers. Demonstrating the scope...

Reparation and Victim-focused Social Work

Edited by Brian Williams

'This book will be of great interest to practitioners in Probation and Youth Offending Teams, Victim Support, Police and others who are involved in the delivery of services to victims if...

Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work

Edited by Phyllida Parsloe

Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work outlines the theoretical issues behind the decisions, processes and organisations involved in risk assessment. Written by leading...

Social Care and Housing

Edited by Ian Shaw, Susan Thomas and David Clapham

`The book is a series of chapters written be a variety of authors but, unlike many, has a strong linkage which points to good briefing and editing. The arguments, in the main, do flow from one...

Social Work and Evidence-Based Practice

Edited by David Smith

Evidence-based practice - what it might mean, how it can be achieved, whether it should be aspired to - is the subject of much debate and argument in social work. Covering areas of social work...

Social Work and the European Community

Edited by Malcolm Hill

Social Work: Disabled People and Disabling Environments

Edited by Michael Oliver

Transition and Change in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities

Edited by David May

One claim made for the policy of care in the community was that it would rescue people with intellectual disabilities from social marginality. To what extent has this promise been fulfilled and...

Women Who Offend

Edited by Gill McIvor

Presenting research that will underpin effective practice with women who offend, this unique and thought-provoking text aims to help professionals meet the needs of this group as well as...

Working with Offenders

Edited by Gill McIvor

Working with Offenders considers the implications for policy and practice of research which has focused upon a range of social work activities - such as assessment, intensive probation...