Now going into its seventh edition, Neil Thompson's Anti-Discriminatory Practice has been
providing a trusted introduction to the challenges of promoting social justice and equality for …

'In a book that is replete with illustrative case studies, Linda Machin draws together the
findings of a wide range of psychological and sociological theory and research in order to …

The overall aim of the book is to provide a clearly written, wellinformed introduction to the
complex and demanding subject of grief to serve as a foundation for further study and …

Whether you are a student social worker, or have been qualified for many years, this book
has relevance for your practice. Loss is a key aspect of social work, and the grief that service …

The qualitative stage of this study took place between 2001 and 2003. The research team
set a target to interview 50 wheelchair users living in the northwest region. Unfortunately this …

This qualitative study describes and analyzes the perceptions and experiences of fathers
with spinal cord injury (SCI) regarding their relationship with their children, in the context of …

The core argument of this paper is that intersectionality provides a constructive conceptual
lens for the convergence of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish child …

Social work involves working with people in distress and difficulties, people who have
perhaps been traumatised by abuse or other life experience, people who have encountered …

About four years ago, I was asked to write a chapter about disability for a book on loss and
grief for social workers (Sapey, 2002). I was very hesitant. Loss is an issue on which there …

Loss–the experience of having lost something, as well as the subjective experience of
missing out on something desired or expected–is a common experience in children's lives …