This book provides a challenging approach to understanding community practice.It offers a much-needed theoretical perspective, setting out an analysis of power and empowerment and exploring new ways of understanding active citizenship.
This accessible textbook illustrates how good communication and positive and participative relationships can be developed with children across the range of universal and specialist children's services.
This book considers the implications for practice of the 'Every Child Matters' (ECM) agenda for working with children, analysing the key issues from the perspective of the different professions that make up the 'new children's workforce'.
This textbook covers the key concepts, themes and issue relating to human growth and development in adults. It examines key... Læs mere
The first ever book on educational work to prevent violence against women and girls, offering insight into the underpinning theoretical debates and key lessons for practice.
Grounded in an extensive array of research sources, this valuable book introduces readers to conditions and aspirations of adults on the autism spectrum that demand a new approach to how we provide, locate, design and develop homes in which they live.
Approved Mental Health Professionals must possess and deploy a range of skills, knowledge and values in order to make ethically complex... Læs mere
This comprehensive textbook provides a thorough analysis of the nature of European societies across the expanded EU member states. It address a range of... Læs mere
Planning is an important aspect of policy making. This book looks at a range of issues to unlock the purpose of planning, ideal for students and practitioners alike.
This book explores contemporary claims about race and migration, combining an overview of the subject with new research. The... Læs mere
New Labour had a momentous impact on British family policy. In this timely book, Clem Henricson asks whether its aspirations were met, or were indeed realisable, and formulates radical proposals for the future.
This original collection analyses the global experience of health care support workers... Læs mere