Social Work with Adults (Mastering Social Work Practice) - Hardcover

Rogers, Jim; Bright, Lucy; Davies, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1473907543 ISBN 13: 9781473907546

Publisher: Learning Matters, 2015

Synopsis

Social work with vulnerable adults is becoming increasingly centred on a key piece of legislation: the Mental Capacity Act. The Act provides a framework for protecting the vulnerable while allowing those who may lack capacity to have certain safeguards enshrined in law.

This book will help support students to learn two things: first, how the Mental Capacity Act operates and what its key principles are when applied to safeguarding adults; and second, what are the compassionate skills and values that need to be interwoven with legislative knowledge? The authors show how these two principles interact and inform one another and how taking a person-centred approach to safeguarding vulnerable adults will mean better outcomes for the individual and our wider society.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Jim Rogers is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Lincoln in the Hull School of Social Work. He teaches on a range of modules on both undergraduate and post qualifying social programmes. He has been responsible for several years for co-ordinating the first year of the BSc Social work programme and has also developed several new programmes of study including a Certificate in the Mental Health and Well Being of Older People and a Best Interests Assessor Programme at PQ level. Jim's research interests are in the fields of mental health and also in complementary therapies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1473907543
• ISBN 13: 9781473907546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176