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This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it covers social work with many service user groups including children and families, adults, older people, disabled people and people with mental health problems as well as specialist areas of practice

This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it covers social work with many service user groups including children and families, adults, older people, disabled people and people with mental health problems as well as specialist areas of practice

Cover -- Contents -- List of Resource Files -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Key Terms -- I: Preparing to Learn -- 1 Managing Yourself and Your Learning -- 2 Skills for Studying -- II: Contexts for Practice -- 3 The Development of Health and Social Care -- 4 Sociological Contexts for Practice -- 5 The Context of Values for Health and Social Care -- 6 Physical Basis for Health and Wellbeing -- 7 Psychological Basis for Health and Wellbeing -- 8 Human Growth and Development -- III: Knowledge for Practice -- 9 Safeguarding Adults -- 10 Protecting Children -- 11 Risk Management and Safe Practice -- 12 Managing Care in the Community -- 13 Working with Older People -- 14 Physical Disability and Sensory Loss -- 15 Learning Disability -- 16 Mental Health and Mental Illness -- 17 Children's Services -- 18 Drug Usage: Legislation and Administration -- 19 Problems of Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco and Food -- 20 Working with Young Offenders -- 21 Nutrition -- 22 Hand Hygiene in Infection Prevention and Control -- 23 General Infection Prevention and Control -- 24 Promoting a Healthy Bladder and Bowel -- 25 Illnesses and Conditions: Signs and Symptoms -- 26 Pain Management -- 27 Wound Management -- 28 Multidisciplinary Palliative Care for Dying and Bereaved People -- IV: Working with People -- 29 Processes of Work with People -- 30 Assessment -- 31 Planning -- 32 Implementation and Intervention -- 33 Review and Evaluation -- V: Becoming a Reflective and Research-capable Practitioner -- 34 Reflective and Critical Practice -- 35 Research Perspectives in Health and Social Care -- 36 Quality Assurance of Practice -- VI: Approaches, Methods and Skills -- 37 Integrating Theory and Practice -- 38 Promoting Health and Wellbeing -- 39 Involving Patients, Carers and Service Users -- 40 Empowerment and Advocacy.

A central aspect of my work is contrast, in material and concept. I began combining images and objects inspired by punk 'zines and outsider art. I went on to earn an MFA, but my undergraduate degree in Biology also inspired me - I began using found materials after a Conservation Corps job fishing colorful trash from streams. Growing up in an educated military family, I was intrigued by humanity's potential for creativity, measured against its penchant for destruction and cruelty. My appreciation of humor and absurdity in art and life is ongoing. Juxtaposing disparate elements mirrors the layering of experience creating the self. I invite the viewer to add new interpretations to the connections I make. My "River" assemblage was commissioned by a hospital renovation program, through a call for art from the brokerage company Corporate Art Force. The hospital liked my earlier "Bitter Buds" hanging assemblage, where I contrasted native cultural materials of found wood and bark with EuroAmerican metal parts fallen from cars. That piece was created for a the "Bitter" Valentine's show at Prove Collective in Duluth, and I used the metal to depict the bitter-sensing region of the tongue. The hospital's interest was in the meditative and healing aspects of nature, so I constructed the "River" out of found wood and bark, ironically heat-treated and varnish-sealed to take any stray life out of it.

AbstractThe Third Dynasty of Ur was a highly bureaucratized, late 3rd millennium B.C.E. empire centering in southern Mesopotamia. Its state superstructure, known almost exclusively from many tens of thousands of looted cuneiform tablets, has long been studied. However, these sources deal only indirectly or not at all with the impacts of imperial rule on the great mass of the subject population. Drawing upon an earlier prosopographic study of animal husbandry for the single province and city of Umma, this article focuses on shepherds, the lowest level of the administration, as a means of penetrating that wall of silence. As interlocutors, needing to face and be credible in both directions, they become the basis for a more inclusive view of the nature of the Ur III state. Largely indifferent to the condition of its subjects and to the complex realities of the economic tasks imposed on them by heavy taxes and arduous corvée labor, the administrative elite emerges as not only repressive, but more narrowly extractive rather than broadly managerial in its intent and operations. The overriding focus in pursuit of which it was highly successful (although for less than a century), appears to have been the flow of resources that would enhance its own hegemony and well-being. La Troisième Dynastie d'Ur était un empire hautement bureaucratisé de la seconde moitié du 3^e millénaire avant l'ère chrétien, centré sur la Mésopotamie du sud. Sa superstructure étatique, connue presque exclusivement grâce à des dizaines de milliers de tablettes cunéiformes pillés, a été longuement étudiée. Toutefois, ces sources ne portent pratiquement sur l'impact qu'avait l'autorité impériale sur la population assujettie. Puisant dans une étude prosopographique antérieure sur l'élevage dans la seule province et ville d'Umma, cet article concerne les bergers, personnages situés au niveau le plus bas de l'administration, dont l'étude doit permettre de percer ce mur de silence. En tant qu'interlocuteurs crédibles tournés à la fois vers le bas comme vers le haut, ils peuvent fournir les bases d'une image plus globale de l'état d'Ur III. Il ressort l'image d'une élite administrative plus ou moins indifférente aux conditions des sujets et aux réalités complexes des taches économiques qui leur sont imposés par des impôts importants et des corvées pénibles ; elle était non seulement répressive mais animée par des intentions et des opérations plus extractives que managerielles. L'essentiel du fonctionnement étatique, poursuivi avec beaucoup de succès (bien que pendant moins d'un siècle), semble avoir été d'assurer un flux de ressources à même d'augmenter sa propre hégémonie et bien-être.