Safeguarding Adults
Key Themes and Issues
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Beschreibung
Safeguarding adults is a rapidly evolving area of professional practice. Already complex and contested in terms of definitions and application, it has been further problematised by significant legal and policy developments, both nationally and internationally.
Written by a collection of authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience, this authoritative new guide critically engages with the recent developments in, and encapsulates some of the emerging approaches to, contemporary adult safeguarding practice.
With a strong focus on multi-disciplinary working, the text covers topics such as:
- Safeguarding adults who lack capacity, or whose level of capacity is unknown or unclear.
- Common issues and tensions surrounding the various UK laws and policies that seek to safeguard adults with mental health problems.
- Safeguarding older adults, with a unique and insightful focus on the perspective of carers.
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Safeguarding adults is a rapidly evolving area of professional practice and this timely new text book provides an authoritative guide that critically engages with the recent developments and encapsulates some of the emerging approaches to contemporary adult safeguarding practice. Written by a collection of authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience, and with a strong focus on multi-disciplinary working, the text covers key topics such as:
- Safeguarding adults who lack capacity, or whose level of capacity is unknown or unclear
- Common issues and tensions surrounding the various UK laws and policies that seek to safeguard adults with mental health problems
- Safeguarding older adults, with a unique and insightful focus on the perspective of carers
- Current limitations in practice, including the blurred nature of the boundaries between informal and legally mandated care, relating to the safeguarding of people with learning disabilities.
Illustrated throughout by engaging case studies to help readers apply what they have learnt to everyday practice, this comprehensive guide to safeguarding adults is essential reading for students across a broad range of health and social care disciplines, as well as practitioners looking for an up-to-date source of reference.
- Provides a critical introduction to the key themes and issues associated with adult safeguarding and how these apply to particular areas of practice
- Brings together the knowledge and expertise of contributors from a wide range of practice settings
- Takes a UK-wide approach
PRIMARY:
There are several key markets for this text. The most likely targets for securing reading list recommendations are lecturers on pre-qualifying social work courses, teaching 'working with adults' based modules which span the entire remit of adult services:
'Practice Specific Elective: Adult Needs and Access to Services' - one-of-two optional module, year 3, BA Social Work, University of Middlesex, UK
'Area of Practice (1): Working with Adults' and 'Area of Practice (2): Working with Adults' - compulsory year 1 and 2 modules respectively, BA Social Work, Keele University, UK
'Working with Adults' - compulsory year 3 module, BA Social Work, University of Central Lancashire, UK
'Critical Practice in Adult Community Care' – year 3 module, BA Social Work, Swansea University, UK
'Social Work with Adults' – year 3 module, BA Social Work, University of West London, UK
'Adult Services' – year 2 module, BA Social Work, University of Chichester, UK
'Contexts of Contemporary Social Work: Adults; Children and Adolescents; Homelessness and Substance Misuse' – year 1 module, MA Social Work, University of Bristol, UK
There are also a number of courses which specifically focus on work with Vulnerable Adults'Working with people with mental health issues/physical or learning disabilities/older people' - choice of pathway, year 3, BA (Hons) Social Work, University of Nottingham, UK
'Mental Health and Vulnerable Adults – National and International Perspectives' – year 2 module, BA Social Work, Portsmouth University, UK
'SWP2004 Social Work with Disabled Adults' - optional year 2 module, BA (Hons) Social Work, Edgehill University, UK
- PQ
There is also potential for take-up of this text within the post-qualifying social work market. As these courses allow for specialist development within a particular field (in this case, working with adults), this book would be ideal for use throughout such courses:
'Specialist Social Work (Adults)' – post-qualifying course, Brunel University, UK
'Social Work Studies (Specialist Social Work with Adults)' - Graduate Diploma, University of the West of England, UK
'Specialist Practice (Work with Adults)' – postgraduate course, University of East Anglia, UK
‘ Safeguarding Adults: Law, Policy and Practice’ - MA, Keele University (run by Alison Brammer who edits Palgrave’s Focus on Social Work Law series and who is author of the forthcoming book Safeguarding Adults which sits in the aforementioned series.
‘Advanced Practice (Vulnerable Adults)’ – MA, Bournemouth
‘Social Work Practice: Adults’ – PGDip, UCLAN
SECONDARY:
Beyond the core social work market, the book will appeal to students taking relevant courses within nursing; psychiatry; health and social care.
Autor*in
Gillian MacIntyre
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