Press Reviews

• Community Care

  The contributors to this volume formulate a fresh theoretical base for social work education. Together they call effectively for a more creative engagement with the accelerating changes that have overtaken a staid profession.

• Aslib Book Guide

  a major contribution to the literature on professional education and training... the book is consistently well written, comprehensive and wide ranging in scope.

• Nursing Times

  ... a valuable collection of papers about professional education.

• Studies in Higher Education

  ... this collection admirably illustrates the theoretical richness and power of an area of intellectual and practical endeavour...

• Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

  In this very interesting and timely collection, the contributors raise important and thoughtful questions about the nature and purpose of professional social work practice in a modern, changing and complex society. This collection provides a useful starting point to consider the fundamental questions of what knowledge is required, and then how to recognize, promote and evaluate high-quality practice.

• Professional Social Work

  ... a very valuable and timely book for social work and related professional educators.

• Therapeutic Communities

  This fascinating book consists of a collection of papers about advanced training for social workers and others...scores highly for its chapters on process issues in training and practice.