This book explores the challenges experienced by convicted offenders characterized by having special needs, and promotes interest in a rapidly increasing segment of the incarcerated inmates' population.

Internationally renowned divorce therapist Bruce Fisher and his 800,000-copy bestselling guide, Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends, have made the long and difficult process of divorce recovery a lot easier. Fisher's "divorce process rebuilding blocks" offer a proven, supportive nineteen-step process for putting one's life back together after divorce. Built on more than two decades of resea...(view full description)

Do you find existing guidance to the Mental Health Act difficult to use? Do you wish there was a simpler resource you could refer to when you want to check a point of detail before completing an assessment? This book is suitable for new and experienced social workers, and also junior doctors and those considering training as an AMHP.

A fully revised edition of this successful introduction to social research methods written for social work students and professionals.

Part of the "Social Work Pocketbooks" series, this book includes: practical ways for supervisors and social workers to prepare for and use supervision; strategies to improve supervision or start again when it has fallen into disuse; methods and advice to protect and prioritise time and space for supervision; and more.

The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place, David Weisburd, Elizabeth Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang present a new and different way of looking at the crime problem by examining why specific streets in a city have specific crime trends over time. Based on a 16-year longit...(view full description)

Explores the nature and role of knowledge in the practical work of the caring professions. This book focuses on knowledge of the practical over the theoretical, looking at the application of theory and the implementation of skill, judgment and discretion. It offers a perspective on professional practice as multi-disciplinary.

Provides social work students and professionals with core knowledge of the important concepts in the social sciences. This book addresses the concepts in social science which are relevant to social work, among them: poverty and inequality; markets and capitalism; social class; child development; and, the nature of risk.

The text includes newly contributed and updated articles utilizing the latest research and studies in the areas of violence, abuse and victims' rights from experts in the field.