Key Themes in Health and Social Care

Each chapter includes reflective exercises to allow students to reflect on what they have read, review their learning and consolidate their understanding.

Relevant for all health and social care students on foundation degrees, certificates/diplomas, to level 4, 5 and 6 undergraduate honours degrees and postgraduate courses. Also relevant for social work professionals, public health professionals and nursing staff.

Includes new chapters on: mental health and well-being; person-centred interventions; work-based learning and professional practice; commissioning health and social care; children’s and young people’s mental health; ageing in the 21st century; health promotion in practice; engaging with vulnerable groups; and the individual integrated project.