By applying theories of sexual abuse, risk and decision-making to practice, this guide offers a holistic approach to ethically difficult decisions and situations that social workers are often faced with in their career.
Guidance and Activities for Talking About Difficult Subjects
Some children face traumatic or difficult events in their lives, and it's essential that they are helped to understand such events and given permission to talk. To do this, helping adults need to be equipped and confident to start these conversations.
Conversation Starters for Direct Work with Children ......
Supporting Women's Transitions from Abuse to Safety
For women experiencing domestic violence, narrative therapy can be a powerful tool to help them gain self-confidence and a sense of identity, resist violence, and make the transition from abuse to safety.Drawing on the narratives of women who have experienced domestic violence, this book explores how women employ strategies of resistance, and how ......
Creative Practice with Children, Young People and Adults
An authoritative, interdisciplinary book which outlines how solution-focused practice is particularly effective in addressing violent behaviour in clients and service users, encompassing work with both adults and children.
Solution-focused approaches have been used successfully with a range of violent ......
The K-12 Teacher's Guide to a New Era of Human Learning
A practical guide for K-12 teachers on integrating AI tools in the classroom. ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence programs are revolutionizing the way we learn, create, and think. In Learning with AI, Joan Monahan Watson and Krista J. Wojdak offer an essential guide for harnessing AI as a powerful educational tool. Building on Jose Antonio ......
Self-neglect and hoarding are found in 1 of 5 social work cases in mental health and older people's services. These cases can be the most alarming and challenging on a social workers' caseload.
A skilled, thorough risk assessment of the behaviours of self-neglect is needed in order to ensure effective care and ......
A Practical Guide for Health, Social Care and Housing Support
Integration is now a key expectation within the delivery of health and social care services in the UK and internationally. However, it still remains difficult to achieve and sustain in practice. Based on learning from successful, and unsuccessful, integrated care initiatives, this book is an invaluable guide for those responsible for leading, ......
A Social Model to Promote Learning and Value-Based Practice
Practitioners in the helping professions today operate in challenging settings where budgets have been cut dramatically, and progression and success are too often defined primarily by key performance indicators and strategic outcomes. Tensions arise when such pressures conflict with helping professionals' core responsibilities to provide ......
An assessment and intervention approach for children birth to age six. While the child engages in natural play, professionals use the guidelines and developmental information to assess 4 domains - sensorimotor, emotional and social, communication and language, and cognition - and gather qualitative information about what the child can do.
