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"This updated and revised version of a very popular and well received book provides a key quick reference work for students, and new and experienced practitioners. The succinct rÃsumÃs of current issues and their implications for practice and policy help readers to get to grips with the wide range of key concepts and terms used in social work, social care, law and health services. This book is highly recommended for its wide-ranging set of summaries which are valuable in first encounters with, or updating of, knowledge in social work."
Professor Brian Littlechild, Associate Head of School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire

"This Dictionary of Social Work provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the terminology used in social work. The evidence based entries are cross-referenced and informed by up to date legislation. Very detailed and useful contextual information are included and the reader is directed to other sourc

Dictionary of Social Work The Definitive A to Z

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      Publisher: Open University Press
      Publication Date: 16/09/2010
      ISBN13: 9780335238811, 978-0335238811
      ISBN10: 335238815
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      Book Synopsis
      "This updated and revised version of a very popular and well received book provides a key quick reference work for students, and new and experienced practitioners. The succinct rÃsumÃs of current issues and their implications for practice and policy help readers to get to grips with the wide range of key concepts and terms used in social work, social care, law and health services. This book is highly recommended for its wide-ranging set of summaries which are valuable in first encounters with, or updating of, knowledge in social work."
      Professor Brian Littlechild, Associate Head of School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire

      "This Dictionary of Social Work provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the terminology used in social work. The evidence based entries are cross-referenced and informed by up to date legislation. Very detailed and useful contextual information are included and the reader is directed to other sourc

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