Social Work

An Introduction

Joyce Lishman, Janine Bolger, Neil Gibson , Gary Spolander

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Sage Publications Ltd
19 May 2023

Social work

Help your students make the best starts in their careers as a Social Worker. Covering everything they need to know in their first year and beyond, this very practical book will guide them through their degree and into practice.

Packed full of case studies, activities and tools for real-life practice, it will:

Help students get to grips with and build the essential knowledge and skills base Support them to develop a range of tools for practice with different service user groups

Develop their critical thinking and help them to apply their learning in practice Provide them with a springboard for further learning and development.

Edited by: Joyce Lishman, Janine Bolger, Neil Gibson, Gary Spolander, Chris Yuill
Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 186mm,
Weight: 1.400kg
ISBN: 9781529602593
ISBN 10: 1529602599
Pages: 704
Publication Date: 19 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Professor Joyce Lishman is now retired, and was previously Head of the School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK. She was also General Editor of the Research Highlights in Social Work series for many years. Neil Gibson graduated with a BA in Communication and worked in the media, travel and tourism before re-entering education and obtaining an MSc in Social Work. He has worked in residential childcare, substance use, care management, and adult protection before joining the social work teaching team at Robert Gordon University where he currently works. Chris Yuill is a sociologist at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, whose work focuses on the sociology of health and the sociology of urban experiences. In addition to a variety of journal publications and research reports he has written and co-edited a number of textbooks for SAGE, one of his most recent being Sociology for Social Work co-edited with Alastair Gibson. Other texts include Understanding the Sociology of Health: An Introduction with Anne-Marie Barry, which is now in its third edition and has also been translated into Chinese. Chris has also served two terms on the executive of the British Sociological Association.