A practical and complete introduction to contemporary social work written by subject experts, including best-selling Transforming Social Work Practice Series authors.

Bestselling text Principles of Trauma Therapy: A Guide to Symptoms, Evaluation, and Treatment, Third Edition covers the modern treatment of psychological trauma that is both comprehensive in scope yet highly practical in application.

A bestselling introduction to emotional, psychological, intellectual and social development throughout the lifespan now with online case study resource.

A succinct, no-frills introduction to social science data and statistics. It uses visual maps and prompts to communicate the potential of social data and to introduce the basic statistical tools available to beginners.

This book empowers you to take a fresh, effective approach to getting better data from your surveys.

This book covers all the areas of law you need to know: social work with children and families, vulnerable adults and social issues such as welfare and homelessness. Each section concludes with a discussion of how social policy and ethics relate to each area of social work law. This gives real-world context to what you have learnt, alongside thought boxes, exercises and case studies in each chapter to further encourage reflection and put theory into practice.

This textbook links theory to policy and practice and takes a comparative, international focus on current issues, making it vital reading for any student of Youth Justice.

Through a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail, author Nigel Thrift demonstrates how and why cities cause mass animal death and hasten the destruction of the planet. The book then attempts to set out how 'we' can navigate out of the current situation and towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers but become aligned with the lives of other beings.

How do you uncomplicate the subject of program evaluation for students without being too simplistic? David Royse focuses on what readers really need to understand in order to apply useful program evaluation techniques in their practice serving individual clients, couples, and families. Drawing on decades of teaching this subject, he skillfully takes an incremental approach to teaching so that students aren't overwhelmed by information that they won't necessarily use in professional settings....