First published in 1972, this study describes the attachment of a social worker to a group general medical practice in London, indicating why, for all social groups, the general practice is an appropriate point at which psychosocial problems may be identified and treated.

Originally published in 1984, this book based on an 18-month study of the area team at Normanton, which incorporated social workers, ancillaries, and domiciliary staff in neighbourhood sub-teams, offered the first systematic account of the operation of a new approach of community-oriented patterns of organisation in social services.

First published in 1974, this book aims not only to focus attention on the problems faced by those seeking the help of a social service organisation, but also to analyse what happens and why at the point of entry. This study analyses reception practices in four different social work agencies.

Originally published in 1973, the aim of this book was to consider the relationship of a vital element in our social security system, the Supplementary Benefits Commission, to the personal social services, in particular to social work.

First published in 1964, this book studies social work in relation to the evolving role of social workers in the social services and to their training at the time. The author considers past discoveries and setbacks insofar as they bear upon the present position, and studies the present for the light it casts on the future.

Originally published in 1979, this successor volume to Dorothy Pettes' earlier Supervision in Social Work volume aimed to provide supervisors and team leaders with the information they needed to function more effectively as either staff or student supervisors in both individual and group supervision.

Originally published in 1967, this Report was the result of the deliberations of a committee of enquiry of experts, most of who had been intimately concerned with the residential services, either statutory or voluntary, for many years.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of a variety of different fraudulent behaviors committed within the medical profession, responding to a growing number of concerns regarding deviant physician actions such as physically and sexually abusive behaviors, fabricating medical findings and records, and taking advantage of patients

Gain a complete, practical understanding of the essential benefits and unique challenges of Telephone Triage for non-clinical call handlers.

This is a new edition of a bestselling introductory counselling textbook. Richard Nelson-Jones is an established and much loved author who's books have helped to train thousands of counsellors and therapists.