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Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law
This short guide cuts through the confusing mass of legislation to provide a concise and jargon-free explanation of current community care practice and the law. It is an essential resource for busy practitioners at all levels as well as managers in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, and policy-makers in local authorities and the NHS. more »
2010, Paperback: £14.99/ $27.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-083-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
Keywords: community care, disability, disability law, health care, law, occupational therapy, social care, social work, social work law
Activities for Adults with Learning Disabilities
Having Fun, Meeting Needs
This valuable resource for people working with adults with learning disabilities provides over 60 sessions of fun activities that aim to entertain and stimulate the minds of people with learning disabilities. The sessions are divided into different types of activity including cookery, arts and crafts, drama and dance, and outside events. more »
2009, Paperback: £17.99/ $24.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-975-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
Keywords: adults, community care, creative therapies, disability, intellectual disabilities, occupational therapy, play, residential care, social care, social work
Decision-Making, Personhood and Dementia
Exploring the Interface
Based on papers from the Centre for Research on Personhood in Dementia workshop, experts discuss the interface between dementia, personhood and decision-making. Drawing on a range of perspectives, the book forges new understandings of relationships between informal decision-making and formal biomedical or legal processes for assessing competence. more »
2009, Paperback: £19.99/ $34.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-585-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, carers, community care, dementia, mental health, mental illness, older people, person-centred, residential care, social care, social work
Safeguarding Adults
A Workbook for Social Care Workers
Working in residential or domiciliary settings involves a continuing process of learning. Every day, social care workers face challenges that force them to think about what they do and how they do it. This is an interactive workbook providing social care workers with guidance on how to improve your knowledge through training and development. more »
2009, Paperback: £14.99/ $27.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-928-0, 297mm x 210mm / 11in x 8.5in, 80pp
Keywords: adult protection, community care, dementia, older people, residential care, social care, social work
Person-Centred Counselling for People with Dementia
Making Sense of Self
Although currently many people with dementia are not given the opportunity to receive professional counselling, this book explores the value of counselling for people living with this condition and how it enables them to make sense of themselves. The author shows how counselling can have positive outcomes for those with dementia and their carers. more »
2009, Paperback: £14.99/ $23.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-978-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 128pp
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, carers, community care, counselling, dementia, mental health, nursing, older people, person-centred, psychology, residential care, social care, social work
How to Make Your Care Home Fun
Simple Activities for People of All Abilities
This book examines the need for activities for elderly people in care and offers a practical programme of entertaining activities that can be used in nursing and residential homes, day centres, rehabilitation centres and hospices. As well as suggesting a programme of activities, it also advocates that 'activity nursing' should be integral to care. more »
2008, Paperback: £14.99/ $23.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-952-5, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 144pp
Keywords: carers, community care, creative therapies, dementia, nursing, occupational therapy, older people, residential care, social care, social work
Personality Disorder
The Definitive Reader
This book addresses the impact that working with personality disorder patients can have on staff. It offers theoretical explanations for personality disorder, explores other issues such as the concept of boundaries in clinical practice, psychiatric staff and the relationship between severity of personality disorder and childhood experiences. more »
2008, Paperback: £25.00/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-640-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 280pp
Keywords: challenging behaviour, community care, counselling, forensic psychotherapy, mental health, mental illness, offenders, psychiatry, psychology, social care, social work
Professional Risk and Working with People
Decision-Making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
Professional Risk and Working with People provides advice on assessing and managing risks for all those employed to take risks with or on behalf of other people. The authors explore issues of risk assessment and management that provides readers with a broad knowledge of risk practices that can be applied across a range of disciplines. more »
2008, Paperback: £19.99/ $42.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-389-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
Keywords: community care, counselling, health care, mental health, offenders, risk assessment, social care, social policy, social work, social work law
Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services
Effective and Fair Decision-Making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
Work within the human services is increasingly influenced by rights-based thinking, and this book offers advice for the practitioner on how to translate abstract rights theory into their everyday practice. It will be a useful source of guidance and advice for professionals working across the human services. more »
2007, Paperback: £21.99/ $42.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-486-5, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 200pp
Keywords: children's rights, community care, counselling, social care, social policy, social work, social work law
Trauma, Drug Misuse and Transforming Identities
A Life Story Approach
Looking at the life stories of ex-drug misusers in their own words, this book offers insights into the nature of addiction and how it can be tackled. Etherington highlights the therapeutic value of listening to drug misusers' life stories and the importance of understanding how social environments and wider cultural influences shape people's lives. more »
2007, Paperback: £19.99/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-493-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Keywords: child protection, child psychiatry, community care, counselling, mental health, offenders, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, social work
Person-Centred Dementia Care
Making Services Better
Dawn Brooker explains the VIPS model: Valuing people with dementia and those who care for them (V); treating people as Individuals (I); looking at the world from the Perspective of the person with dementia (P); and a positive Social environment in which the person living with dementia can experience relative well being (S). more »
2006, Paperback: £15.99/ $25.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-337-0, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 160pp
Keywords: carers, community care, counselling, dementia, health care, mental health, nursing, older people, person-centred, psychology, residential care, social care, social work
Improving Children's Services Networks
Lessons from Family Centres
This book details and evaluates expert research into the developing role of family centres in the light of current political and social trends including. A vital addition to the literature on child care services, Improving Children's Services Networks is essential reading for social care practitioners and students, and government policy makers. more »
2006, Paperback: £25.00/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-461-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
Keywords: carers, child protection, child psychology, children, children's rights, community care, education, families, parenting, social care, social policy, social work, supported living
Shattered Lives
Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity
Shattered Lives bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes. Chapters take the form of letters to a child capturing their life experiences, hugely impacted by sexual abuse, parental substance misuse and loss, leading to feelings of shame, and worthlessness. more »
2006, Hardback: £19.99/ $22.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-434-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp 2007, Paperback: £11.99/ $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-84310-603-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp
Keywords: child protection, child psychology, children's rights, community care, counselling, domestic abuse, social work, trauma
Safeguarding and Promoting the Well-being of Children, Families and Communities
Improving the well-being of children is more effective when social care professionals work with the children's parents, families and communities. This collection brings together innovative interventions designed to nurture children's health and welfare, and analyses which types of programmes are most effective and why. more »
2005, Hardback: £49.99/ $90.00ISBN: 978-1-84310-141-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 304pp
Keywords: child protection, children, community care, families, social care, social policy, social work
Supporting Children in Public Care in Schools
A Resource for Trainers of Teachers, Carers and Social Workers
This is a training package designed for delivery to all professionals supporting young people who are in public care. Based on collaborative multi-agency and multi-professional work with psychologists, teachers and social workers, the training pack includes photocopiable material and instructions for more than a dozen training sessions. more »
2005, Paperback: £35.00/ $65.00ISBN: 978-1-84310-325-7, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 144pp
Keywords: child protection, child psychology, children, community care, counselling, education, mental health, palliative care, social work
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