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  • Settlements, Social Change and Community Action
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    Settlements, Social Change and Community Action

    Reflecting the emphasis in social care, social policy and welfare on the ideas of community and active citizenship, this book provides historiecal background to community-based social action and seeks to inform and contextualize practice and policy in...
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  • Teaching Physics and Chemistry
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    Teaching Physics and Chemistry

    Physics for ages 12-14 Chemistry for ages 12-13 Roy Wilkinson outlines the background and practical guidelines for teaching these subjects: 6th grade--sound, light, heat, magnetism, electricity 7th grade--6th-grade subjects continued; mechanics,...
    $34.99

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  • Once Upon a Fairy Tale 2
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    Once Upon a Fairy Tale 2

    The author explores and comments the fairy tales Little Red Cap (aka Little Red Riding Hood), Mary's Child, Briar Rose and The Handless Maiden. The worldwide popularity of Walt Disney's film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs compelled the author to write...
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  • Teaching Physics and Chemistry
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    Teaching Physics and Chemistry

    Physics for ages 12-14 Chemistry for ages 12-13 Roy Wilkinson outlines the background and practical guidelines for teaching these subjects: 6th grade--sound, light, heat, magnetism, electricity 7th grade--6th-grade subjects continued; mechanics,...
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  • The Changing Role of Social Care
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    The Changing Role of Social Care

    Focusing on the enormous organizational and cultural changes that local authority social services have undergone since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act, this volume provides an overview of the structure and function of social care at practice,...
    $62.99

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  • Working Ethics
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    Working Ethics

    Working Ethics sets out an ethical foundation for professionals and for the professions in a modern, culturally complex society. This book will be of interest to anyone who takes seriously their obligations to society as a whole and to the individuals...
    $38.99

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  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
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    Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    'This tiny but useful book for practitioners in a variety of areas attempts to define ADHD and investigates the etiology of this condition. Although this book is intended for a number of readers from different populations, including experts, it is...
    $40.99

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  • People Skills for Young Adults
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    People Skills for Young Adults

    Presents a course in social skills training for students age 16 and up, especially those with mild learning difficulties. Contains a series of lessons accompanied by teacher sheets, and examples of scenarios which students are encouraged to act out and...
    $56.99

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  • Boys in Schools
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    Boys in Schools

    This text addresses many of the difficulties that boys face in schools, including: bullying; school violence; boys' under-achievement; homophobia; sexism; boys' non-involvement in school life; relationships; peer culture; masculinity; gender stereotypes;...
    $38.99

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  • Lifemaps of People with Learning Disabilities
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    Lifemaps of People with Learning Disabilities

    The use of lifemaps with people who have learning disabilities has proved particularly effective for a better understanding of their emotional perceptions and needs. In this book, Barry Gray and Geoff Ridden have collected 12 biographies written by...
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  • Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work
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    Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work

    Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work outlines the theoretical issues behind the decisions, processes and organizations involved in risk assessment. Written by leading academics and experienced practitioners, it considers implications for future...
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  • Psychodynamic Perspectives on Abuse
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    Psychodynamic Perspectives on Abuse

    Abuse is defined broadly and considered as a widespread phenomenon with a variety of manifestations and contexts. Its consequences, and the responses it may provoke, are discussed in detail with reference to three areas. In the personal context, the...
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  • Disability Politics and Community Care
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    Disability Politics and Community Care

    Mark Priestley is a Research Fellow at the Disability Research Unit at Leeds University. He teaches disability studies and has published many articles, chapters and research reports in the field. He was formerly a lecturer in rehabilitation work with...
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  • Writing Skills in Practice
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    Writing Skills in Practice

    Writing Skills in Practice presents a comprehensive overview of the development of writing skills for both students and health care professionals, offering useful information on all the main areas of writing practice in one volume. Clearly laid out with...
    $56.99

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  • Housing and Social Exclusion
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    Housing and Social Exclusion

    Fiona Spiers is Head of Heritage Lottery Fund, Yorkshire and the Humber. She was formerly Appeals Manager at St Anne's Shelter and Housing Action, Leeds, where she edited this book and prepared evidence on homelessness for the Government's Social...
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  • Making a Leap - Theatre of Empowerment
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    Making a Leap - Theatre of Empowerment

    'This book offers the reader a comprehensive way of devising issue-based theatre with young people. The model is based on a ten-week full-time Leap project which involves three weeks of group work and training, three weeks of devising and rehearsing, and...
    $78.99

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  • Observation and its Application to Social Work
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    Observation and its Application to Social Work

    Pat Le Riche has worked in a range of statutory and voluntary agencies. Her particular research interests are social work with older women and developments in community care. Both authors are lecturers in social work at Goldsmiths College, University of...
    $62.99

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  • Therapeutic Communities
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    Therapeutic Communities

    The recent renaissance of the concept of the Therapeutic Community acts as a challenge to orthodox psychiatric management. It propounds a radical group-based therapeutic approach which is fundamentally opposed to many current policies and approaches,...
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  • Educational Citizenship and Independent Learning
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    Educational Citizenship and Independent Learning

    Based on five years' research in 97 educational establishments, this study argues that the current emphasis of the curriculum is encouraging conformity in children, rather than the enquiring and active mental state that the author identifies as essential...
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  • An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities
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    An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities

    Therapeutic communities provide, in addition to safe accommodation and twenty-four hour care, a highly structured environment with set rules and timetables. Within this environment they establish a set of relationships and meetings that provides a safe...
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  • Growing Up with Disability
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    Growing Up with Disability

    Growing Up with Disability encompasses a wide range of perspectives on childhood impairment and its social implications. The book adopts a child-centred approach, stressing the importance of communicating with disabled children, and includes interviews...
    $56.99

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  • Working with Carers
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    Working with Carers

    Christine Heron is Commissioning Manager in Wirral Social Services Department. Previously, she was a lecturer at Southport College and a member of the DipSW Programme Management Board. She has also worked with carers of people with disabilities and...
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  • Special Talents, Special Needs
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    Special Talents, Special Needs

    'A wonderful book to help set up a drama group for those with learning difficulties, to help them express themselves through drama. It is a step by step guide to running a group from the basics of finding the setting right through to the final...
    $83.99

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  • Risk and Risk Taking in Health and Social Welfare
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    Risk and Risk Taking in Health and Social Welfare

    How can a social worker assess the risk that a sex offender poses to the community, or decide whether an older person with dementia should stay in his or her own home? How can professionals balance the rights and responsibilities of vulnerable people...
    $66.99

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  • Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes
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    Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes

    Jane Lewis is Director of Research in Practice. After an early career in law, including private and public family law, she moved into social policy research. She was Director of the Qualitative Research Unit at NatCen, carrying out research and...
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  • Bullying in Schools: And What To Do About It
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    Bullying in Schools: And What To Do About It

    Offering ways in which to tackle bullying within a school context, this study provides: strategies to identify both bullies and victims; ways to diffuse potentially troublesome situations; methods of dealing with bullies that are not punitive and...
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  • Working with Victims of Crime
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    Working with Victims of Crime

    Dr Brian Williams was Professor of Community Justice and Victimology at De Montfort University in Leicester. He served on the Executive of the British Society of Criminology and was a volunteer training officer for a local Victim Support scheme. He...
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  • Teaching Foreign Languages
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    Teaching Foreign Languages

    At one level, the teaching and learning foreign languages has its own set of skills and challenges for teacher and student. In Steiner-Waldorf schools, however, the guiding principle of language teaching is constant: to engage with all aspects of the...
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  • Social Care and Housing
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    Social Care and Housing

    Reviewing research on housing and social work and drawing out its implications for policy and practice, this volume emphasizes the relationship between the two services. For example, the amount and condition of housing stock, costs and planning...
    $74.99

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  • Succeeding on your Primary PGCE
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    Succeeding on your Primary PGCE

    Studying for a Primary Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) can be demanding, but this book will help you to succeed on this intensive and challenging course. By showing you how to make the most of your time on the PGCE, the book encourages you...
    $109.00

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  • Helping Staff Develop in Schools
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    Helping Staff Develop in Schools

    Great staff make great schools, and by choosing your staff carefully and helping them to develop, you will make a significant impact on the lives of the young people in your care. The school workforce isn't only teachers these days, and good staff...
    $413.00

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  • How to be a Successful Teacher
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    How to be a Successful Teacher

    Teaching is a rewarding, yet demanding profession, one in which a person needs to be fully prepared. This book focuses on the applied psychological skills, strategies and resources, which will help to ensure you are equipped with personal and...
    $375.00

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  • Key Concepts in Healthcare Education
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    Key Concepts in Healthcare Education

    Key Concepts in Healthcare Education is a guide to the key theories, issues and practical considerations involved in healthcare education in the 21st century. It is aimed at those studying to be educators in both academic and practice settings, as well...
    $377.00

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  • Language & Literacy in the Early Years 0-7
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    Language & Literacy in the Early Years 0-7

    This Fourth Edition of Language and Literacy in the Early Years has been fully revised and updated to reflect current professional interests and the latest developments in the field. The book provides comprehensive coverage of issues in language,...
    $375.00

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  • Play and Learning in the Early Years
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    Play and Learning in the Early Years

    Providing high quality play experiences is an essential part of good early years education, but this can pose a challenge for practitioners who face pressure from a more didactic primary curriculum, and from parents worried that their children will fail...
    $391.00

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  • Parents Have the Power to Make Special Education Work
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    Parents Have the Power to Make Special Education Work

    Written by parents who have been through the US specialeducation system, this book cuts through the jargon to provide other parents with a no-nonsense road map full of valuable first-hand insights and tried-and-tested advice.The authors clearly...
    $48.99

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