Practice Manuals for Busy Professionals
About the Book Series
Essential guides to help practitioners across the 'human services', including social work, nursing, education, policing, as well as business and management professionals.
People Management in Practice
2nd Edition
By Neil Thompson
June 01, 2026
This new edition combines theories and practical insights to provide guidance and tools needed to navigate the complexities of today’s modern workplace. With a wealth of experience across the management and leadership fields, Neil Thomspon addresses highly relevant and important contemporary topics...
Values-Based Practice: A Guide for Practitioners and Managers
2nd Edition
By Neil Thompson, Bernard Moss
February 05, 2026
This second edition of Values-Based Practice aids readers to understand the key role of values as a basis for effective practice across human services and beyond. Neglecting values when working with vulnerable people can lead to disastrous and unethical outcomes. However, the concept of ...
Anti-Racist Practice
1st Edition
By Neil Thompson
January 30, 2026
This newly expanded and updated edition of Anti-Racism for Beginners offers guidance for engagement with anti-racism and anti-racist practices in interdisciplinary areas, from social work, healthcare and youth and community work through to business management. A range of frameworks, based on ...
Spirituality and Religion in Human Services: A Guide for Practitioners and Managers
2nd Edition
By Neil Thompson, Bernard Moss
January 26, 2026
Spirituality, whether or not rooted in religion, is a core feature of what it means to be human. This important practice manual explains why spirituality and religion should be a fundamental consideration for professions that are centred around helping people tackle their problems and fulfil their ...
Care of Older People: A Values Perspective
2nd Edition
By Sue Thompson
August 21, 2025
This text provides a foundation of essential knowledge and practical guidance for building best practice in the care of older people. Fully updated for its second edition, Care of Older People uses a whole-person and values-led approach to explore practice with older people, providing the...
Crisis Intervention
1st Edition
By Neil Thompson
March 24, 2025
This new edition provides essential reading on crisis intervention for social workers, mental health nurses and other human services practitioners and managers. What defines a crisis can often be misunderstood and incorrectly equated with emergencies. This book explores crisis theory in depth, ...
Effective Problem Solving
2nd Edition
By Neil Thompson
October 03, 2024
A bumper book of powerful problem-solving tools and techniques presented clearly and concisely by a highly respected author. Practitioners across the range of human services and managers in all sectors are constantly faced with problems of various kinds. Each of these is unique, however there ...
Managing Stress
2nd Edition
By Neil Thompson
June 24, 2024
The Managing Stress Practice Manual, 2nd ed, provides the ideal stress management tool for practitioners across the public sector and professionals at all levels in business and management. The modern world of work is highly pressurised, with stress levels affecting workers' health and little to no...