This hands-on guide steps beyond initial professional training and dives into the vast world of workplace learning. Whether youre supervising students on placement or helping colleagues gain workplace qualifications, this handbook shows you how to give the best support and get the best results.
This essential guide brings a much-needed focus on the area of safeguarding young people in a way which is holistic, person-centred and evidence-informed. It sets out key challenges and potential solutions in this area of work, explores key research and practice knowledge, and invites whole-system innovation in how young people are supported to be ......
A Practical Guide for Early Intervention and Child Protection
Grounded in extensive experience and research, this book provides an invaluable look at the potential of Motivational Interviewing (MI) in child and family social work. With real life examples from professionals in the field, it explores what MI is and how it is used in safeguarding work, also providing guidance on improving skills and practice.
A revealing account of a three-year therapy journey between a therapist and client, co-authored by them both. It sensitively presents the challenges that an adult survivor of childhood abuse had to overcome, and offers insight for therapists into how creative use of relational models of working paved the way for the client's healing.
This acclaimed work, now in a new edition, has introduced tens of thousands of clinicians to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for depression, an 8-week program with proven effectiveness. Step by step, the authors explain the "whys" and "how-tos" of conducting mindfulness practices and cognitive interventions that have been shown to ......
Parents can play a strong role in helping their children overcome anxiety disorders--given the right tools. This innovative, research-based book shows clinicians how to teach parents cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to use with their 5- to 12-year-old. Session-by-session guidelines are provided for giving parents the skills to promote ......
Describes the essential interpersonal skills that social workers need in community practice and helps students cultivate them. Drawing from empirical literature on community social work practice and the author's own experience working with community organisers, the book focuses on developing the macro-level skills that are especially useful for ......
This book is the authoritative presentation of contextual emotion regulation therapy (CERT), an innovative intervention expressly designed for depressed children ages 7-13 and their parents.
Fully revised and updated guide to being an excellent supervisor in the social care, nursing, counselling and allied health professions. Packed with essential updates informed by the very latest research in the field, and full of clinical case examples, this second edition is an essential guide for all professional and trainee supervisors.
