This text provides a practical but theoretically informed foundation for meeting the challenges of social work practice. Thompson offers a truly contemporary way of conceptualising social work, providing readers with a taste of what social work is really like. All social work students and qualified practitioners will find this text indispensable.

Practising Social Work: Meeting the Professional Challenge

Politics & Social Sciences

Thompson, Neil

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The new edition of this popular and successful text continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the diverse field of people skills. Thoroughly updated, it boasts six completely new chapters with relevance to a wide range of occupations and environments. This book will be an essential companion to all students in helping professions.

People Skills: Third Edition

Self-Help

Relationships

In an extensive update to reflect the recent developments in theory and practice, the new edition of Understanding Social Work covers the basics in an easy-to-comprehend style. It is an ideal preparatory text for those considering a career in social work, students just starting their degree and in preparation for the first placement.

Understanding Social Work: Preparing for Practice

Contemporary society is characterised by its ever-increasing diversity. Having sold over 70,000 copies across its four editions, Neil Thompson's classic text remains a trusted introduction to the challenges of promoting social justice and equality.Addressing the ways in which social workers can effectively challenge inequality within society, the book explores the many forms of discrimination that can lead to disadvantage, disempowerment and oppression. Written with Thompson's inimitable clarity, this edition features:• Three all-new chapters, including a contextual introduction and chapters on sexuality and religious discrimination;• An explicit theory base, through extended discussion of the widely used PCS model;• A range of questions for reflection and comprehensive guidance on further reading, incorporating books, articles and websites.Today, good social work practice must be anti-discriminatory. This fully updated edition is therefore an essential read for the next generation of social work students, practitioners, managers and educators.

Anti-Discriminatory Practice: Equality, Diversity and Social Justice (Practical Social Work)

This short introduction to loss and its impact on people's lives is ideally suited to students and practitioners across many professions. With sensitivity and simplicity, Neil Thompson explores how grieving has been theorized and explains the crucial social dimensions to loss and grief that balance and extend more individualized models.

Grief and its Challenges

Death & Grief

At the heart of every organisation are the people that contribute to it. Neil Thompson's latest book offers an outstanding guide to the art of management by highlighting the, too often taken for granted, importance of staff and their well-being at work. The result is a unique introduction to people management that focuses on getting the best, rather than simply the most, out of staff in the workplace. Combining theory and practice in clear and sensitive balance, this book: 
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<li>Is unrivalled in scope, covering 30 key tasks and challenges faced by managers, from recruitment and staff motivation to grievances and bullying. </li>
<li>Adopts a multidisciplinary approach applicable across many organisational settings for readers whatever their background. </li>
<li>Is written with the clarity and practical focus for which Neil Thompson is renowned, ensuring a navigable and intuitive companion for students and new and aspiring managers alike.</li>
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 People Management is an ideal textbook for students taking courses on human resources, management and leadership across a range of fields, from Business and Organisation Studies to professional qualifications in Nursing, Social Work and related people professions. It also a rich and succinct tool for practising managers.

People Management

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Red Globe Press

An entirely revamped edition that provides a practical kit of ideas, methods and approaches to support all direct work with people - from service users and patients to employees and colleagues. Introducing over eighty techniques and spanning a wealth of professional settings, it is another quality text from an author with a proven pedigree.

The People Solutions Sourcebook

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This important textbook is a revised and updated edition of a very well-received and much-appreciated insightful guide to reflective practice designed for students, practitioners and managers of social work, health care and related fields. Its clear and careful integration of both the 'thinking and doing' elements of the often challenging task of practising reflectively makes this book an ideal text at all levels of study and practice. Divided into two parts, the book focuses first on theoretical issues to help develop a sound foundation of understanding of critically reflective practice and then on practical guidance on how to make this type of practice a reality. Written by two highly respected authors with a strong track record in explaining complex ideas clearly and accessibly without oversimplifying them, this textbook is accompanied by Palgrave’s It’s All About People website, developed to showcase the work of Neil Thompson and Sue Thompson.

The Critically Reflective Practitioner

Philosophy

Springer

This important textbook presents a clear and accessible guide to the knowledge and skills necessary for effective practice in tackling human needs and problems. Parts One and Two concentrate on personal effectiveness skills and skills involved in interpersonal interactions respectively. Part Three focuses on the skills of intervention - agreeing what needs to be done and taking the necessary steps to make it happen. Stressing throughout the need for issues of equality to be integrated into all aspects of practice, this book should be essential reading for everyone working with people and their problems.

People Skills

Palgrave HE UK

Promoting Equality

Sociology

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