Someone to Safeguard: How Safeguarding Can Go Wrong
An excerpt from Chapter 6 of Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science. ‘Find me somebody to love’, a lyric from the band Queen. A lyric which…
Tag: social work
Grandparenting the Children of Addicted Parents: Experiences and Wisdom for Kinship Carers
Imagine what it would be like if you suddenly found yourself being expected to take on the full-time care of your grandchildren, without any support.…
New to Working with Asylum Seekers and Refugees?
Working with Asylum Seekers and Refugees is a new resource essential for those who are new to working with asylum seekers and refugees. Drawing on…
Anxious, Antagonistic Adolescents
In this blog, author Nick Luxmoore discusses his research on how professionals should work best with anxious or difficult teenagers. Another crisis! Another emergency! Another…
Receive a free copy of our latest Social Work & Mental Health Catalogue
Sign up to our mailing list to receive a free print or digital copy of our new Social Work & Mental Health Catalogue for 2019.…
Young Carers – What do they do? What help do they need?
A Young Carers Awareness Day blog by director of the Young Carers Research Group and author of Can I Tell You About Being a Young…
What is Therapeutic Photography? – Audio Clip
Neil Gibson, Senior Lecturer for Social Work at Robert Gordon University, and author of Therapeutic Photography: Enhancing Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy and Resilience, discusses here the use of therapeutic…
A Therapeutic Photography Group for Carers – Q&A with Author Neil Gibson
Neil Gibson is a social worker and Senior Lecturer at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He runs a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course for professionals interested in…
Talking about dementia with very young children: why it helps and how to go about it
In this blog, Lynda Moore, the author of My Book about Brains, Change and Dementia introduces her new picture book about dementia, which encourages good…
Asperger’s Syndrome and Jail
Ahead of the publication of his book, Asperger’s Syndrome and Jail, Will Attwood tells us why this book is needed, and how his own experience…