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Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability
Stopping Insult and Injury
Preventing the Emotional Abuse and Neglect of People with Intellectual Disability aims to throw light into the traumatic experiences faced by people with intellectual disability living in disability accommodation services, to make changes to policy and practice, and to offer strategies and tools for capacity building for practitioners. more »
June 2013, Paperback: £19.99/ $32.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-230-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Keywords: adult protection, carers, community care, disability, domicilary care, elder abuse, health care, intellectual disabilities, older people, residential care, resilience, social care, social policy, social work, social work law, supported living
The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health
A Guide to Implementation and Issues for Practice
The Equality Act 2010 in Mental Health provides a critical guide to the Act: what it means for mental health services and how it should be implemented. It addresses each of the nine characteristics protected by the Act in turn, examining the research and practice issue associated with each and offering positive guidance. more »
2012, Paperback: £29.99/ $49.95ISBN: 978-1-84905-284-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 304pp
Keywords: community care, disability law, ethnicity, health care, law, mental health, mental illness, nursing, psychiatry, psychology, social care, social work, social work law
Child Well-Being
Understanding Children's Lives
This book brings together contributions from international experts in order to define child well-being and to further understand how it can improve children's lives. This edited collection is essential reading for all those involved in understanding children's lives and who have responsibility for improving them. more »
2010, Paperback: £24.99/ $42.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-925-9, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
Keywords: adolescence, advocacy, attachment, child development, child protection, child psychology, children, children's rights, early intervention, education, families, health care, housing, joint working, law, mental health, parenting, resilience, risk assessment, safeguarding children, social care, social policy, social work, social work law, teenagers, youthwork
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
The Child's World
The Comprehensive Guide to Assessing Children in Need
2nd edition
This new and updated edition of the best-selling book on assessing children in need and their families integrates practice, policy and theory to produce a comprehensive and multidisciplinary guide to all aspects of assessment. The Child's World explores the implications of recent legislation and national guidance for assessment practice. more »
2009, Paperback: £22.99/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-568-8, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 416pp
Keywords: child protection, child psychiatry, child psychology, children, counselling, education, families, health care, risk assessment, social work, social work law
The Nearest Relative Handbook
2nd edition
This fully updated second edition explains how the nearest relative is identified, and how in some cases he or she might be displaced. It also contains a wealth of new case examples and illustrative scenarios, providing a succinct discussion of each significant case and incorporating all the very latest changes to the Mental Health Act. more »
2009, Paperback: £19.99/ $34.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-971-6, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
Keywords: disability law, health care, mental health, social work law
Community Care Practice and the Law
4th edition
This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care. It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of law directly relevant to practitioners. more »
2008, Paperback: £45.00/ $75.00ISBN: 978-1-84310-691-3, 246mm x 173mm / 10in x 7in, 640pp
Keywords: health care, social care, social work, social work law
Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults
Criminal Justice and Adult Protection
Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults provides an up-to-date summary of developments in the legislative framework and best practice relevant to the area of adult protection work. It explains legislation that can be used in adult protection work, covering criminal and civil law, and national guidance such as Achieving Best Evidence. more »
2008, Paperback: £19.99/ $42.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-937-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
Keywords: adult protection, dementia, health care, offenders, older people, social work, social work law
Children with Mental Disorder and the Law
A Guide to Law and Practice
This book provides a guide to the law relating to mental health care for children and young people, and discusses important issues in clinical and social care practice such as parental responsibility, Gillick competency and capacity, emergency intervention and detention, assessment of mental illness and confidentiality in practice. more »
2008, Paperback: £25.00/ $49.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-576-3, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 248pp
Keywords: Asperger syndrome, autism, child protection, child psychology, children, disability, health care, mental health, offenders, social work, social work law
Developing Advocacy for Children and Young People
Current Issues in Research, Policy and Practice
This book explores the latest debates and findings relating to research and practice in the field of children and young people's advocacy. Contributors present the key issues and dynamics of current advocacy practice and examine its role within health, education and social care services. more »
2008, Paperback: £19.99/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-596-1, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
Keywords: advocacy, children, disability, health care, social work law
Young Children's Rights
Exploring Beliefs, Principles and Practice
2nd edition
This readable, informative and thought-provoking book is a compelling invitation to rethink our attitudes to young children's rights in the light of new theories, research and practical evidence about children's daily lives. It will be of interest to anyone who works with young children. more »
2008, Paperback: £19.99/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-599-2, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
Keywords: child protection, child psychology, children, children's rights, counselling, education, health care, law, social policy, social work law
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
Advance Directives in Mental Health
Theory, Practice and Ethics
Advance directive (AD) is a way of making a person's views known if he or she should become mentally incapable of giving consent, or making informed choices about treatment, in the future. This book advises users on their choices about treatment in the event of future episodes of mental illness, covering all legal and medical aspects of AD. more »
2007, Paperback: £25.00/ $42.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-483-4, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 216pp
Keywords: adults, carers, disability law, families, health care, mental health, mental illness, nursing, psychiatry, psychology, social care, social policy, social work, social work law
Non-Accidental Head Injury in Young Children
Medical, Legal and Social Responses
This academic research volume explores non-accidental head injury in babies and young children, covering medical, social, and legal aspects of this phenomenon, as well as the responsibilities of professionals, child protection agencies and the media in this area. more »
2006, Paperback: £24.99/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-360-8, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 192pp
Keywords: brain injury, child protection, children, health care, safeguarding children, social work law
Betraying the NHS
Health Abandoned
Based on his experiences of helping to fight cuts and closures in Suffolk, Michael Mandelstam delivers a damning verdict on the mismanagement of the NHS at national, regional and local level. He charts the widespread cutbacks and closures, both rural and urban, to clinics, A&E services, beds, wards and scores of community hospitals. more »
2006, Hardback: £22.99/ $39.95ISBN: 978-1-84310-482-7, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 320pp
Keywords: disability, health care, social work law
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