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Modern society is beset by a vast range of problems – such as poverty, homelessness and terrorism – that cause immense suffering for a significant...
This popular textbook provides an up-to-date guide to the knowledge and skills required for working successfully with people. The book is divided into...
A theoretically informed practical guide to using crisis theory to bring about positive change in empowering ways....
This new and fully updated edition of a hugely popular textbook is a practical and user-friendly guide that lets students know what to expect from the...
In this ground-breaking text book, bestselling author Neil Thompson turns his attention to the question of 'What does it mean to be truly professional...
A Guide for Human Services Practitioners
This edited volume explores the wide range of practice situations across the human services in which issues loss and grief are likely to be important....
This succinct and insightful guide to reflective practice is designed for students and practitioners across a range of professions in the human servic...
A Guide for the People Professions
Communication is the basis of so much of what happens in the workplace and indeed in our private lives. Without effective communication our lives are ...
A bumper book of powerful problem-solving tools and techniques presented clearly and concisely by a highly respected author. Practitioners across the ...
Working with Diversity and Difference
Practitioners working within the people professions have a legal and moral responsibility to promote equality wherever possible. This insightful book ...
Dealing with Stress tackles the complex issues of pressure and stress in social work. It covers aspects of research and theory but its main focus is o...
The Managing Stress Practice Manual, 2nd ed, provides the ideal stress management tool for practitioners across the public sector and professionals at...
Third Edition
The new edition of this popular and successful text continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the diverse field of people skills. Thoroughly ...
Empowerment has become a well-used term across a wide variety of social work settings that involve dealing with people and their problems. But is it a...
In social work, theory and practice are inextricably linked. This ground-breaking book explores the ways in which theory informs practice and how prac...
Equality, Diversity and Social Justice
Now going into its seventh edition, Neil Thompson's Anti-Discriminatory Practice has been providing a trusted introduction to the challenges of promot...
This hands-on guide for business, project and test managers and test practitioners presents an effective approach for using risk to construct test str...
Preparing for Practice
Provides a superb introduction to the nature of social work: its legal and policy base, the knowledge, skills and values involved, and the challenges ...
Existentialism and Social Work provides a clearly-expressed and well-argued exposition of Sartrean existentialism as a theory base for social work pra...
Second Edition
This textbook has been thoroughly updated to include many new debates and developments in the theory and practice of anti-discriminatory and anti-oppr...
Thompson offers a sound basis for countering discrimination and oppression in social work, using a lucid blend of theory and practice to guide student...
There are particular challenges involved in teaching social work. As with other professional disciplines, it is not simply a matter of passing on the ...
Alternatives to the Medical Model
Mental Health and Well-Being provides a sound foundation for understanding alternatives to the medical model of mental health. Students and profession...
There is a huge collection of literature relating to death, grief and bereavement, but one aspect that has received relatively little attention is tha...
This is a revised edition of Theory and Practice in Health and Social Welfare which was well received on its first publication: "Throughout the book t...
Theory and practice are two sides of the same coin: they are inextricably linked. In this second edition of his classic text, Neil Thompson revisits t...
The third edition of this textbook has been thoroughly revised to meet the needs of today's social work students, professionals and service managers. ...
The book is an in-depth review of the theory and empirics of the demand for money and other financial assets. The different theoretical approaches to ...
An Existentialist Approach, Second Edition
This important book successfully blends theory and practice to address authentic leadership from a non-essentialist angle. Drawing extensively on exis...
Challenging Discrimination and Oppression
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'Community Care' is part of the 'Theory Into Practice' series. This series fills a significant gap in the market for short, user-friendly texts, writt...
The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they produc...
Sociological Perspectives
Death and Dying is an important core text for students and professionals interested in developing a holistic understanding of death and dying. Chapter...
An essential handbook for students and experienced social workers alike, this practical guide filters out the jargon and sets out what you really need...
In this revised and updated edition, Neil Thompson presents a clear and accessible analysis of the complexities of discrimination and oppression and t...
Anti-Ageist Theory and Practice
In this insightful book, Neil Thompson and Gerry R. Cox highlight the detrimental effects and pervasiveness of ageist stereotypes, structures and prac...
This book provides an overview of the key issues involved in promoting workplace learning. Building on ideas discussed in Practice Teaching in Social ...
Neil Thompson sets out what you really need to know about supporting further learning during placement and practice. Stripping away the confusion and ...
Social worker. You're a helping hand, a rock in the tempest, a friendly face through the hard times, and a catalyst for change. But what about you? Ho...