Confidentiality and record keeping are essential aspects of everyday counselling practice. This book introduces you to the law, ethics, guidance and policy relevant to counselling records and confidentiality, using examples from practice to apply this to a wide range of counselling situations and dilemmas.This edition is fully updated to cover recent developments in guidance, professional ethics, policy and law, including new chapters on GDPR and data protection law and online and ...

This third book in the authoritative BACP Legal Resources for Counsellors and Psychotherapists series provides a user-friendly guide to the law for all those practising and training in the counselling profession.Barbara Mitchels and Tim Bond make legal issues relevant and bring them alive for the practitioner. Packed with practical examples, this book covers essential areas of law for practitioners including- professional ethics and standards- negligence- co...

This fourth book in the authoritative BACP Legal Resources for Counsellors & Psychotherapists series provides practical examples and applications of the law as it applies to therapists in the many different contexts of their work.Helping practitioners move between different practice settings, the book explores how the legal framework within which they work varies across contexts. It introduces practitioners to the statutory structure and obligations of different types of counsellin...

The perfect guide for managers to help with employee absence. Contains hundreds of helpful tips to bring your absence rate down this book sets out the authors own tried and tested methods. Learn how to: Manage the absence process from the first instance of sickness: Hold high impact return-to-work meetings: Deal with the doctor dilemma and get useful medical information: Tackle the employees that 'go to ground': Handle complaints of stress effectively: Carry out 'the headmistre...

Modern Tort Law is a comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date introduction to the law of torts. Now in its seventh edition, Vivienne Harpwood’s popular, student-friendly text explains the principles of all aspects of tort law in a lively and thought-provoking manner. The broad coverage of modern tort law makes this an ideal textbook for any undergraduate tort law course.Students are encouraged to understand and apply the principles of tort law effectively throughout and pa...

Are you looking for a rewarding, flexible career that allows you to care for your own children at the same time as you work?For many, childminding seems like the ideal solution. However, it’s not as simple as just spreading the word and waiting for parents to come flocking to your door. Childcare is a highly regulated sector and the checks and systems in place to protect children are rigorous and may at times seem overwhelming.This easy-to-follow, comprehensive guide will s...

The essential reference for every Australian teacher - this indispensable pocket-sized resource guides primary and secondary school teachers through the many complex legal issues that arise in the school environment.Covering key topics from bullying to intellectual property, the new revised and updated edition of Teachers, Students and the Law provides concise, plain-language information in an easy-to-use format.This new edition incorporates updated information and r...

Know Your Rights: Employment and Family brings together the most up-to-date information on: Family law, including the Civil Partnership Act, from marriage to divorce; adoption to guardianship; sale of the family home to wills and inheritance; domestic violence to custody. The rights of the employee and the employer, including terms of employment, notice periods, redundancy, unfair dismissal, payment of wages, sick pay and sick leave. Usin...

Key Facts is the essential series for anyone studying law, including LLB, ILEX and post-graduate conversion courses.Key Facts provides the simplest and most effective way for you to memorise and absorb the essential facts needed to pass your exams.Key Features:* User-friendly layout and style* Diagrams, charts and tables to illustrate key points* Summary charts at a basic level, followed by more detailed explanations to aid revision at every level

This highly practical book brings together the elements of legislation, Code of Practice, Memorandum, Government Circulars and relevant case law, policy and AMPH regulations that trainees are required to get to grips with to pass the course and practice as a registered Mental Health Professional.This fully-revised fifth edition is an essential guide for practising AMHPs, or those currently in training. With extensive appendices which cover Mental Health Act Assessm...

"The guide that the Government should have written, but didn’t!" Now updated for 2016/17, this is the comprehensive guide to the Special Educational Needs & Disability Code of Practice 2014 and new SEN  framework, which came into force in September 2014.    From award-winning Douglas Silas, a solicitor specialising exclusively in special educational needs, it includes and links to all relevant legislation, regulations and gui...

The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students.The book covers, for example, Department of Health guidelines, human rights, the regulation of health and social care providers, the barring of carers from working with vulnerable adults, care standards tribunal cases, ...