Vulnerable Adults and Community Care - 9781844453627

This series of texts have been written to support busy social workers studying for post-qualifying awards. They are practical in their approach and link directly to the national occupational standards and the GSCC requirements for post qualifying social work education in Social Work with Adults

This new edition of Vulnerable Adults and Community Care supports students undertaking post-qualifying social work awards in social work with adults, particularly those practitioners who are interested in community care and working with those adults who are vulnerable in society. Recent government policy has ensured this area has seen plenty of change and this is reflected in this fully-updated text: there are revised chapters on the transformation and personalisation agenda, mental health and the impact of the mental capacity Act 2005. There is also more information around learning disabilities and working with vulnerable adults. The book is made up of self contained chapters to support students' learning, offering a number of differing and thought provoking viewpoints, enabling the reader to engage with the client group and to reflect upon their practice in a more meaningful way.

Vulnerable Adults and Community Care is essential reading for both Newly-Qualified Social Workers as well as more advanced practitioners who are studying on the PQ Adults pathway. Series Editor: Professor Keith Brown, Centre for Post Qualifying Social Work, Bournemouth University