Educational Equipment and Technology Books

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...

Judy Ryde PhD is a freelance psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer of 25 years' experience. She provides supervision training across the helping professions within the Centre for Supervision and Team Development. Judy also supervises the BCPC Asylum...

Suzan Collins is a trainer and consultant in management and social care, and was registered manager with the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), now called Care Quality Commission (CQC). She delivers training throughout the UK to service users,...

Social care workers in residential or domiciliary settings need to be able to communicate effectively in order to carry out their work.Supporting people with a variety of difficulties including hearing loss, impaired speech, visual impairment, dementia...

Those working in residential or domiciliary settings have a responsibility to maintain a clean, safe and secure work environment.Health and Safety provides guidance on the responsibilities and risk assessments involved, covering subjects such as first...

Working in residential or domiciliary settings involves a responsibility to safeguard adults from harm and abuse. This workbook will provide staff and relatives with the ability to make sensible choices concerning prevention and protection, as well as...

Social care workers in residential or domiciliary settings need to be able to communicate effectively in order to carry out their work.Supporting people with a variety of difficulties including hearing loss, impaired speech, visual impairment, dementia...

In the United States alone, there are roughly three million individuals living with a developmental disability, but less than a third are active in the labor market. This book provides a comprehensive approach to developing a successful jobs program for...

Just as teachers strive to inspire their students, author Noah benShea aims to replenish the well of inspiration within teachers in his book, Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers. Educators are constantly challenged, not only to meet the needs of their...

Just as teachers strive to inspire their students, author Noah benShea aims to replenish the well of inspiration within teachers in his book, Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers. Educators are constantly challenged, not only to meet the needs of their...

Beginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with Maxwell Jones' death in 1990, this work covers a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and tracks the evolution of therapeutic communities from their experimental beginnings to...

Despite an increase in the awareness of autism, families and professionals continue to struggle to find treatments that will fulfil the individual needs of their child. From Research to Individualized Practice bridges the gap between the latest research...

Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in policy, guidance, legislation and practice in the area of adult protection.The book aims to broaden thinking about adult abuse, assesses alternative...

Substance misuse and its pervasive problems is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professionals today. With heightened political and policy emphasis on all aspects of substance misuse, it is paramount that professionals remain...

The protection of vulnerable adults is an emerging area of work for local authorities and other agencies, both statutory and independent. Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and the Law is the first book to set the safeguarding of vulnerable adults in a legal...

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...

How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justice services working? With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book offers an...

As the momentum for personalization and recovery approaches grows, service users are increasingly participating as partners in all aspects of health and social care delivery, planning and professional training. This book provides a timely overview of...

The Northfield Experiments, which were conducted during World War II, mark an important moment in the development of psychiatry and in the therapeutic community movement. This volume records the experiments in detail. Through work with soldiers suffering...

Far from presenting a unified picture of social work in the region, the contributors show how varied practice provision can be, reflecting he importance of lessons that can be learned from within and outwith social care. They explore key differences in...

Catherine Sawdon is a training officer at Wakefield Social Services Department. In addition to groupwork, her interests include practice teaching and learning, counselling, anti-oppressive practice and neurolinguistic programming.

The majority of therapeutic communities treating drug users are ''concept-based'': they are hierarchical, and the staff and residents form a chain of command. Staff are often qualified for their work by virtue of having been residents in such a community...

Ilan Katz is Head of the NSPCC Practice Development Unit. His main research interests are child protection, identity and the sociology of childhood.

Empowerment of users of social care services has become a key issue in much current social work and social policy literature. But many of these texts have focused on themes such as consumerism and citizens' rights, settings in which user involvement is...

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...

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,...

This text advocates the active engagement of clients in their own lives and promotes the development of a shared sense of responsibility between client and carer. It focuses on the practical implications and use of dialogue, language and education in...

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...

Presenting the stories of individuals form all levels of the social and legal systems, including service users, judges, therapists, psychiatrists, social workers, social policy academics and parents, this text, concerned with ethical practice, represents...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The transformation of Western civilization into a planetary society of information and communication compels us to pose some philosophical and political questions about the influence of these new technologies on education. This author, a philosopher,...

Examines the lived experiences of women criminals in Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1860, mainly as they navigated the nineteenth-century legal and prison systems.

The most reputable sources of information right at your fingertips! There are abundant resources in the field of special education for professionals and parents of children with special needs. However, it can be a daunting task to navigate through this...

Survive the first year of teaching and wind up happy, wiser and still sane! Can I teach the way I believe is best for my students? How can I get it all done? The worries, concerns and questions of first-year educators can be overwhelming and eventually...