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Developing multi-professional teamwork for integrated children's services: research, policy, practice
- Authors:
- FROST Nick, ROBINSON Mark
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 224
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
A practical resource for all professionals engaged with planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice in children's services. This new third edition builds on the earlier editions, and incorporate some fresh new content. Four new chapters - chosen to highlight and consider contemporary new developments in the field - explore safeguarding children; the challenges of information sharing; new integrated approaches to SEN; and multi-agency responses to child sexual exploitation. Combining theoretical perspectives, research evidence from the 'real world' of children's services, and reflections on policy and practice, the book exemplifies what multi-professional work looks like in practice; examines real dilemmas faced by professionals trying to make it work, and shows how these dilemmas can be resolved; and considers lessons to be learnt, implications for practice and recommendations for making multi-professional practice more effective. (Edited publisher abstract)
A practical guide to end of life care
- Editor:
- SADLER Clair
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 216
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
Written by experts with extensive experience in delivering high quality end of life care, this book is full of real life examples, reflection exercises and case studies. It also includes insights into what can help make a good death, and how to help support families at the end of life. The easy to read chapters emphasise treating people who are dying with dignity using a person centred approach. The book supports the delivery of quality care by recognising physical and non-physical symptoms, and thinking about various emotional and physical needs people might have. It also highlights the importance of care givers looking after themselves and advice is given on how best to do this. (Edited publisher abstract)
Conducting the home visit in child protection
- Author:
- NICOLAS Joanna
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 120
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
- Edition:
- 2nd ed
A practical guide to conducting home visits, looking at: how to prepare for the visit; how to get in the door; what to do when in the home; what to look out for, using observational skills; and practical ways to implement lessons learned from recent serious case reviews. Useful features of this book include: real case examples based on practitioner’s experiences; realistic solutions to the everyday difficulties; examples of what to say; reference to the latest guidance, including Working Together to Safeguard Children (2013) to ensure compliance with statutory requirements and expectations; and guidance and support in understanding lessons learned recent child protection SCRs. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social work, poverty and social exclusion
- Author:
- BACKWITH Dave
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 208
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
This book relates poverty and social exclusion to social work practice, offering a fresh approach to the challenges social workers face in helping clients out of poverty. The book begins by examining the challenges posed by growing poverty set against cuts in services and tightening eligibility criteria. It argues that the impact social exclusion and poverty has on service user's lives requires social workers to gain a greater awareness of both concepts and their relationship to social work practice. Chapters consider topical issues such as the role poverty plays in child protection issues, and the dilemmas social workers face in working with asylum seekers. A theme of the book is inequalities in health: that most service users suffer more illness, disability and premature death, because they are poor and excluded. Focused on what social workers can do in their practice to address social exclusion, the book supports students in developing relationship-based and community-oriented approaches that can actively alleviate poverty. (Edited publisher abstract)
Practice educating social work students: supporting qualifying students on their placements
- Authors:
- SHOWELL NICHOLAS Wendy, KERR Joanna
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 120
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
Aimed at professionals involved in practice educating social work students, the book provides guidance on how to: establish expectations with social work students at the start of a placement; assess and support students to achieve to the very best of their abilities; ensure the highest quality placement experience is offered; write clear, constructive and helpful reports at the mid and end points of the placement; tackle difficult conversations and create action plans when things go wrong; ensure students fulfil the criteria of the Professional Capabilities Framework and that educators achieve the requirements of PEP domains. The book contains practical tips, checklists and realistic examples, providing practice educators with at-a-glance "Best Practice" points and "Common Pitfalls" to avoid. (Edited publisher abstract)
Ethics, values and social work practice
- Authors:
- BELL Linda, HAFFORD-LETCHFIELD Trish
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 168
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
Offers a grounding in the major trends in ethics applied to social work, providing perspectives on: how to situate ethics and values in social work practice; how to understand ethics as part of reflective practice as both student and practitioner; how ethics and values link to concepts of power, diversity and social justice; the role of ethics and values in interprofessional and partnership working; and the guiding principles and ethics inherent in relationship-based social work. The book supports student learning by providing: discussion points to allow time for individual reflection or ethical debates; case studies based on likely scenarios from practice, with reflection points to help social workers engage with the issues raised; chapter summaries and key points for social work practice to reinforce the relevance of learning to real social work practice; and a glossary of key terms as a reference for key ethics terms and concepts. (Edited publisher abstract)
Excellence in dementia care: principle and practices
- Editors:
- DOWNS Murna, BOWERS Barbara
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 496
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
A comprehensive textbook on dementia care. Drawn from research evidence, international expertise and good practice guidelines, the book has been crafted alongside people with dementia and their families. Case studies and quotes in every chapter illustrate the realities of living with dementia and bring the theory to life. It includes chapters on the following topics: dementia friendly communities; representations of dementia in the media; younger people with dementia; the arts and dementia; relationships within families or with family carers; whole person assessment; transitions in care. This textbook is aimed at those working or volunteering in health and social care, undergraduate and postgraduate students across a range of disciplines in health and social work, and anyone interested in the field of dementia care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Facing danger in the helping professions: a skilled approach
- Author:
- BOURNE Iain
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 232
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
Dangerous behaviour is a very real threat to practitioners working in the helping professions. This theoretically informed book deals with the types of dangerous behaviour that helping professionals are likely to encounter. It provides strategies and skills for dealing with situations involving: difficult reactive aggression; dangerous reactive aggression; disturbed aggression; and proactive aggression. Written for both students and practitioners in various disciplines, the book focuses on the immediate face-to-face management of interpersonal danger. Case studies allow readers to place themselves in the incident, and to reflect on what they might be thinking, feeling and doing in a given situation. Based on the author’s personal safety training courses and how to deal with violent or dangerous behaviour, this book will enable helping professionals to implement good practice while dealing with the stress, confusion, fear and anxiety that dangerous situations give rise to. (Edited publisher abstract)
Social work in the youth justice system: a multidisciplinary perspective
- Authors:
- FOX Darrell, ARNULL Elaine
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 184
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
This practical book for social workers demonstrates how practitioners can work in creative, ethical and reflective ways within Youth Offending Teams (YOTs). All Youth Offending Teams are required to employ a social worker, yet it is often a challenge to find space within youth justice practice to uphold social work values. Topics covered include: legislation; multiagency working and multidisciplinary approaches; risk assessment; working with high risk offenders; the Scaled Approach to sentencing disposals and supervision; restorative Justice Interventions; and alternative interventions. Case studies, vignettes and reflective questions are used throughout to help students and practitioners relate theory directly to practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Managing contact for young people
- Author:
- SCOTT Sally
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 136
- Place of publication:
- London
Part of a new Social Work Pocketbook series in association with Community Care, this is a guide to setting up and managing contact visits with looked after children. Identifies the day-to-day challenges associated with this fundamental aspect of working in children and families services. Includes practical examples, advice and tips, examples of common pitfalls and how to avoid them, point of law reminders and checklists for easy reference. (Publisher abstract)