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Title The Blackwell companion to social work / edited by Martin Davies
Edition Third edition
Published Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2008 [that is, 2007]

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  361.320941 Dav/Bct 2008  AVAILABLE
 WATERFT HEALTH  361.320941 Dav/Bct 2008  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 538 pages : illustrations
Contents Part 1: Reasons for Social Work -- 1.1 Family Disruption and Relationship Breakdown -- 1.2 Child Abuse -- 1.3 Domestic Violence -- 1.4 Ill-health -- 1.5 Physical Disability -- 1.6 The Frailty of Old Age -- 1.7 Mental Illness -- 1.8 Learning Disabilities -- 1.9 Alcohol or Drug Problems -- 1.10 Population Movement and Immigration -- Part 2: Applying Knowledge to Practice -- 2.1 Relating Theory to Practice -- 2.2 Assessment, Intervention and Review -- 2.3 Antidiscriminatory -- Practice -- 2.4 Feminist Theory -- 2.5 Taskcentred -- Work -- 2.6 Care Management -- 2.7 Risk Assessment and Management -- 2.8 Welfare Rights Practice -- 2.9 Counselling -- 2.10 Anger Management -- 2.11 Family Therapy -- 2.12 Groupwork -- 2.13 CognitiveBehavioural Therapy -- Part 3: The Practice Context -- 3.1 Social Work with Children and Families -- 3.2 Social Work and Schools -- 3.3 Social Work, Divorce and the Family Courts -- 3.4 Social Work with Adult Service Users -- 3.5 Social Work in Healthcare Settings -- 3.6 Mental Health Social Work -- 3.7 Social Work in the Criminal Justice System -- 3.8 Social Work in Collaboration with Other Professions -- Part 4: Social Work and its Psychosocial Framework -- 4.1 Social Work and Society -- 4.2 Social Work and Politics -- 2 -- 4.3 Gendering the Social Work Agenda -- 4.4 Culture, Ethnicity and Identity -- 4.5 Families -- 4.6 Sexuality and Sexual Relationships -- 4.7 Psychology and Social Work -- Part 5: The Human Life Cycle -- 5.1 Infancy -- 5.2 Childhood -- 5.3 Adolescence -- 5.4 Partnership and Parenting -- 5.5 Late Life Ageing -- Part 6: Perspectives on Social Work -- 6.1 Service Users' Perspectives -- 6.2 The Perspective of the Disabled People's Movement -- 6.3 The Carer's Perspective -- 6.4 Black Perspectives -- 6.5 The Research Perspective -- 6.6 The Evidencebased -- Perspective -- 6.7 An Ethical Perspective on Social Work -- 6.8 Inspection: A Quality-control -- Perspective -- 6.9 The Legal Perspective
Notes Previous ed.: 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [469]-512) and indexes
Subject Social service -- Great Britain.
Author Davies, Martin, 1936-
LC no. 2007025832
ISBN 9781405170048 (paperback: alk. paper)
Other Titles Companion to social work