Julie Phillips is Head of Social Work at University College Northampton, having previously worked as a lecturer in social work at the School of Social Work, Leicester University, and as a senior lecturer at Coventry University. She has also worked as a qualified social worker and as a consultant.
How do you choose an appropriate approach for working with each different group you come across? Grounded in systems theory, Oded Manor's model provides a framework that bridges the gap between overly prescribed schemes that do not always meet clients' needs, and open ones that fail to provide sufficient details about practice. The book includes ......
Mediation has been growing very fast in the UK in recent years. From it's small beginnings it has become well-known as a more positive method of resolving conflict than the adversarial methods we have been accustomed to using. Mediation is now used to resolve neighbour disputes, help victims of crime and offenders communicate, prevent bullying in ......
ho Feel They Have a Problem with their Use of Controlling and Violent Behaviour
Gerry Heery is a training consultant with over twenty years' frontline experience as a social worker. He has many years of experience in working with young people who use violent and aggressive behaviour.
Illuminates the devastating power of addiction and describes an array of innovative approaches to facilitating clients' recovery. Including many creative techniques formed by interweaving concepts and techniques.
l Abuse: The Client's, The Counsellor's and the Researcher's Story
This book presents first-hand accounts from two male survivors of childhood sexual abuse and from the counsellor who worked with them.The two brothers suffered severe sexual abuse from their grandfather and were each unaware of the other's ordeal. Despite having been subjected to the same abusive conditions their stories of their survival and ......
Damian McCann is the principal family therapist in a child and family mental health service unit, a supervisor at the Institute of Family Therapy and an honorary lecturer at University College, London.
Drawing on the experiences of practitioners from a range of backgrounds, this work is a comprehensive study of real or threatened physical violence and its consequences. Personal accounts of children and adults who have been subjected to such violence are discussed, with a view to understanding the emotional and psychological effects of their ......
