Includes bibliographical references (page 379-424) and index.

Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Overview of the book -- Understanding social care / Kevin Lalor and Perry Share -- What is social pedagogy? A new way of working with older people in Sweden / Mats Hogstrom, Riitta Nilsson, Per-Axel Hallstedt and Perry Share -- The practice of child and youthcare in North America / Grant Charles and Thom Garfat -- Social care practice, professionalism and post-professionalism / Perry Share -- Psychological theories of child development / Áine de Róiste -- Equality : a challenge to social care / Majella Mulkeen -- Learn about your 'self' before you work with others / Denise Lyons -- Gender, sexulaity and social care / Jacqueline O'Toole -- Evidence-basd practice in social care / Tom Farrelly -- Therapeutic social care practice / John Byrne -- The social care practice placement : a college perspective / Judy Doyle and Kevin Lalor -- Using professional supervision in social care / Eileen O'Neill -- Managing challenging behaviour / Eleanor Fitzmaurice -- Social care management : theory and practice / Vicki Anderson, Judy Doyle and Patrick McGarty -- Social care practitioners as agents, advocates and enablers of health promotion / Frank Houghton and Sharon Houghton -- Emancipatory social care practice / Majella Mulkeen -- Residential child care / John McHugh and Danny Meenan -- Social care and the older person / Carmel Gallagher -- Social care and family support work / Colm O'Doherty -- Social care services for people with a disability / Karen Finnerty -- Travellers in Ireland and issues of social care / Tasmin Cavaliero and Hannagh McGinley -- Working with young people : discourse, policy and practice / Maurice Devlin -- Homelessness / Mairéad Seymour -- The juvenile justice system / Eileen Farrell -- Social care in a multicultural society / Celesta McCann James.

This is an updated edition of this comprehensive introduction to all key study areas within applied social care. New to this edition are international perspectives on social care, an update on the social care professional development project, new chapters on therapeutic approaches to social care practice, child protection, health promotion, and working with juvenile offenders.