Practising Social Work: Meeting the Professional Challenge

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.

NEIL THOMPSON is a director of Avenue Consulting Ltd. He has extensive experience in the helping professions. Thompson has worked in social work practice, management and education and is Director of the Institute for Applied Social Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, UK. He has over 100 publications to his name.