Social Work With Adults

Social Work With Adults

Authors: Georgina Koubel

Published: June 2013 Pages: 288

eISBN: 9780335245437 | ISBN: 9780335245420

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part One: The Context of Social Work with Adults

Chapter 1 - The Evolution of Social Work

Chapter 2 - The Modernisation of Social Work

Chapter 3 - Empowering and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults

Chapter 4 - Collaborative Working with Service Users

Chapter 5 - Responding to Difference, Identity and Globalisation

Part Two - Working with Different Service User Groups in Adult Services

Chapter 6 - Working with People with Physical Impairments

Chapter 7 - Issues affecting practitioners and service users in learning disability services

Chapter 8 - Working with People With Sensory Disabilities

Chapter 9 - Social work with older adults: working with older people and people living with dementia

Chapter 10 - Working as a Social Worker in Community Mental Health Services

Chapter 11 - Working in Palliative and End-of-life Care

Conclusion: The future of social work with adults