Worried about your social work placement? You’re not alone; many students find their placement one of the toughest aspects of their training. But placements can also offer a rewarding and invigorating approach to learning. They provide a chance to put your knowledge into practice and actually 'do' some social work. From day one of your first placement until the end of your last, this unique survival guide can support you in getting the most out of your placement. Written in a straightforward, down-to-earth style, this text offers:—practical tips, exercises and advice to build confidence, enabling you to take control of your own learning—support in aspects of your professional development, including dealing with difficult situations should these arise—help to improve your critical thinking skills as well as encouraging reflective practice.From authors with extensive experience of social work education and practice, Surviving Your Social Work Placement draws directly on the advice of past and present social work students. This is a book that you can rely upon again and again as a rich source of ideas and guidance at any stage of your social work training.

Surviving Your Social Work Placement

Business & Money

Jones, Karen

Lomax, Robert

Leigh, Sarah

Gay, Chris

Job Hunting & Careers

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Social workers often have to handle a great deal of negativity in their working lives. This book celebrates social work practice at its most positive and influential and, in doing so, contributes to a growing literature on critical best practice. Focused on 12 unique and compelling stories of social work with older people, the authors: • provide a fresh and realistic insight into life as a social worker, and the dilemmas and difficulties that practitioners typically face • illustrate how knowledge, theory and research are integrated in professional decision-making and action • show social workers analyzing their own cases and include reflective questions to help readers formulate their own learning and thereby develop their own practice This book provides students on qualifying courses with an invaluable perspective on real life practice, and gives qualified practitioners the opportunity to reflect on and better their own practice.

Best Practice with Older People: Social Work Stories

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

It's five years on since Grace found out she was pregnant. Now balancing motherhood and full-time ministry her life takes a dramatic turn when she meets a young victim of sex traffickers. She is still unable to escape her own past as James Martin remains a continued presence in her life. Chloe, meanwhile, is still struggling to keep her marriage alive. The stresses continue with her own children and she finds herself challenged on issues of drug addiction, sexuality and teenage rebellion. In Grace's own Bible-times novel, Lila and Mary are on a steep-learning curve as part of the first community of believers that represent the early Church. Love, sex and betrayal, and abuse, forgiveness and healing are once again the powerful themes in this heart-rending saga. Sister Acts is the second in Karen Jones' incredible Babe's Bible trilogy.

Babe's Bible: Sister Acts

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd.

A first-of-its-kind study of Protestant youth ministers reveals the hopes, frustrations, and effectiveness of today's youth workers. Of the 7,000 youth workers assembled in 1996 under Atlanta's Georgia Dome, a sample of 2,130 full-time youth ministers from dozens of Protestant denominations and parachurch organizations answered a battery of exhaustive, deliberate questions covering: What they liked best about youth ministry What particularly pleased them in their work with youth What they found most encouraging or discouraging Their biggest obstacle to an effective youth ministry Their biggest concern in youth ministry Their answers revealed a dedicated group of professionals, concerned a out the students in their ministries, but troubled with a variety of perplexing issues. And their answers form the backbone of Youth Ministry That Transforms, a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking study (funded by the Lilly Endowment) focusing on the hopes, frustrations, and effectiveness of today's youth workers. Spearheaded by Merton Strommen--one of America's most exemplary and influential thinkers and authors in youth and family ministry--the research-writing team is joined by Karen E. Jones and Dave Rahn of Huntington (Indiana) College's Link Institute for Faithful and Effective Youth Ministry, and acknowledged leader in the task of undergirding youth ministry with a research base. These three deliver thorough analysis and sound interpretation regarding the state of youth ministry at the dawn of the 21st century. Youth Ministry That Transforms belongs on the desks and in the classrooms of all who are concerned with this developing profession, including denominational and parachurch leadership, professors, youth ministry students, and thoughtful youth workers themselves. It is also an insightful resource for any who want to understand youth ministers and their profession: senior pastors, executive pastors, and other individuals and committees charged with hiring and supervising youth workers.

Youth Ministry That Transforms

Rahn, Dave

STROMMEN, MERTON P.

Zondervan/Youth Specialties

A topical study showing how and why seemingly trivial incidents act as flashpoints for widespread disturbances, by investigating the underlying causes. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in communication, politics, industrial relations, criminology, and urban studies.

Flashpoints: Studies in Public Disorder

Waddington, David

Critcher, Chas

Routledge

Following their dreams, Bob and Karen Jones set out from Corpus Christi, Texas, in their 15 year-old, 30-foot sailboat, Watercolors, to explore the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts taking them to Chesapeake Bay. Their adventure mostly follows America’s Intracoastal Waterway that winds through remote bays and inlets formed by numerous barrier islands. In these estuaries, they encounter an abundance of osprey, pelicans, herons, ducks, geese, cormorants, and dolphins, as well as the rarer bald eagles and whooping cranes. The Waterway also leads to villages and towns that make their livelihood from the water as is very much evident in the delicious oysters, blue crab, and shrimp served up at local cafes. Other stops are at major seaports including Galveston, New Orleans, Pensacola, Jacksonville, Savannah, and Charleston which serve a delightful dose of history extending back to early colonial times. The Chesapeake is an ideal cruising ground with villages such as Deltaville, Onancock, Crisfield, St. Michaels, and Oxford wedded to the water by crabbing, oystering, and boatbuilding. Bob and Karen enjoy exploring rivers with such enticing names as Wicomico, Choptank, Piankatank, Rappahannock, Patapsco, and Potomac, as well as the major cities of Baltimore and Washington , and the sailing center of Annapolis. In the late fall they return to Florida where they abandon their plans to return to Texas in the spring in favor of returning to the Chesapeake for further sailing adventures and a chance to traverse the Dismal Swamp. They encounter the usual cruising challenges of navigation, dragging anchors, provisioning, mechanical and electric breakdowns, water leaks, and approaching hurricanes. Karen’s Living Aboard sections describe life aboard a boat for many months from a women’s perspective. Bob’s Nature Notebook sections explore conservation efforts preserving wetlands and migrating birds as well as looking at future challenges of overfishing, protecting sea turtles, and rising sea levels. 303 pages, 109 B&amp;W photographs, 3 maps

Sailing toward Sunrise: Cruising and Treasuring America's Gulf and Atlantic Coasts

Travel

Jones, Bob

United States

Piankatank Press

They're small but chunky board books—and they're guaranteed to fascinate toddlers with their moving animal illustrations that present charming visual surprises. Each two-page spread has a "who's there?" question and a peephole showing a pair of animal eyes. Kids place a finger into a slot cut into each illustration, give a little push, and out pops the complete animal. There are six pop-out surprises in every book, and the brightly colored cartoon-style animals who come popping out will delight little boys and girls. This clever little mouse loves to munch—especially when he has a big red apple! Kids will be surprised by more munching animals as they go from page to page. (Ages 1-4)

Munch, Munch! Who's There? (Mini Movers)

Children's Books

Animals

B E S Pub Co

Frommer's Hanging Out in Italy is packed with tips on the hottest party scenes, the best places to meet locals, and candid, honest reviews of the best places to eat, sleep and explore in all of Italy. Our authors have scoured the country for every spot that appeals to young, adventurous, hip travelers. We'll show you the where to the liveliest jazz club in Perugia, where to go for the best gelato in Milan, and how to rent ice-climbing equipment in Aosta. Hanging Out in Italy offers honest, evocative reviews of hotels and restaurants for all tastes, from a tiny mom-and-pop pasta restaurant in Tuscany, to a gorgeous, splurge-worthy restaurant in Trento that serves delicious gourmet interpretations of traditional local foods. A valuable planning section, detailed maps and fun boxes explaining everything from local dating habits to local festivals, round out the guide. Fun, irreverent, and totally real, Hanging Out in Europe is the guide for young, adventurous travelers who wants to experience Italy the way the locals live it.

Hanging Out in Italy

Garofano, Paul

Terebelski, Dana

Bowen, Lindsay

Europe

Frommers

Lists range from minor problems such giving rewards and sanctions to how to deal with serious problems such as, bullying and tantrums.

101 Essential Lists on Managing Behaviour in the Primary School

Education & Teaching

Griffiths, Alex

Schools & Teaching

Continuum

This book presents testimony of feminisms in process. The accounts are filled with tensions, not least an uneasiness with feminism itself, and the question of what exactly it means to be a feminist in education in the contemporary world. It is their respect for their own differences and the honesty with which they write that makes this such a rich text. From the Foreword by Kathleen Weiler Educators committed to social change face the common dilemma of how to take up the work of transformation without reinscribing systems of domination. The struggle with the concept of imposition is central to the emergence of many educators' identities and provides a site for exploring the complex relationship between power, knowledge, and teacher identity. This book chronicles the collaborative efforts of five diverse women educators (Native American, European, Jewish American, rural, midwestern, working class) to grapple with the tensions of taking up a political position while honoring the cultural, social, and historical context of others. Their dialogue across feminist, critical, and postmodern theories and practices explores the process of fusing theory with political work in the world. What emerges is the continual repositioning and disruption of taken for granted meanings as central to enhancing emancipatory education.

Repositioning Feminism & Education: Perspectives on Educating for Social Change (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series)

Jipson, Janice

Munro, Petra

Rowland, Gretchen

Victor, Susan

Sociology

Praeger

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Jones, Karen. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Jones, Karen