The Students' Handbook for Studying Health and Social Care

Essential Context, Knowledge and Practice Skills for Doing a Successful Degree
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-60852-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

This book provides students with the essential context, knowledge and practice skills required to succeed in your health and social care degree.

Students doing a health and social care degree make a real difference to people’s lives every day in incredible and inspiring ways. Choosing to study health and social care gives you the opportunity to acquire a wide range of essential context, knowledge and practice skills that positively transform both your life and the lives of many others. This book uniquely presents these essential context, knowledge and practice skills in one essential place, to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the requirements of doing a health and social care degree.

Topics covered in the book include health and social care legislation, demographic change, children’s rights, disability, mental health, anatomy and physiology, health and social care regulation, communication skills, teamwork and leadership and reflective practice. It is an indispensable learning resource for health and social care students wishing to succeed in their degree and beyond in a wide range of both health and social care settings, as well as a wide variety of other settings, such as schools, community settings and welfare organisations.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sealey, Clive

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Welcome to your health and social care degree!  Part One – The Essential Context of Health and Social Care. 2.The transition into university for health and social care students. 3.Health and social care in the context of social, demographic and technological change – who cares? 4.Understanding health for health and social care practice. 5.Understanding mental health for health and social care. 6.Legislation/Laws guiding health and social care practice. 7.Regulation in Health and Social Care: improving the quality of care?  Part Two – Essential Knowledge for Studying Health and Social Care.  8.Key sociological theories for health and social care. 9.Core Models of Health. 10.The importance of anatomy and physiology for health and social care. 11.Safeguarding in health and social care: Progressive, proactive and preventative actions for practice. 12.Children and Young People’s mental health. 13.The rights of children and young people within health and social care settings. 14.Disability: Perspectives, experiences and implications for health and social care practice. 15.Anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive ACTion for health and social care. 16.‘Healthy Ageing’: the future of health and social care?  Part Three – Essential Practice Skills for Health and Social Care.  17.Being a reflective practitioner within health and social care settings. 18.Communication Skills for Practice. 19.Placement Skills for Health and Social Care Students. 20.Leadership and Teamworking – The Foundations of Organisational Culture in Health and Social Care Practice. 21.10 essential requirements for doing a successful health and social care degree.

Über Autor(innen)

Clive Sealey is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Theory in the School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Worcester, UK. His interests are in social policy-related issues linked to poverty, policy and theory. He obtained his PhD in social policy from the University of Birmingham in 2009. His previous book publications are Social Policy Simplified (2015), Social Policy, Service Users and Carers (2022), Applying Social Policy to Criminal Justice Practice (2023) and An Introduction to Child and Adolescent Mental Health (2025).