About the Editor and the Contributors

ROBERT ADAMS is Professor of Social Work in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Teesside, UK and one of the top names in the field of social care. He is already the editor of three leading social care textbooks, and in Foundations of Health and Social Care he has brought together an experienced team of contributors from a wide range of areas within the health and social care fields.

Notes on contributors

Jon Adams has worked as Occupational Therapist in the NHS for over six years, specialising in adult mental health. Currently working as an occupational therapist within a community mental health team and currently lives in Ceredigion and practises in Newcastle Emlyn. His specialist areas include vocational rehabilitation and assertive outreach. Jon has published work on the role of occupational therapy in crisis resolution and home treatment and co-authored a study exploring the role of occupational therapists in community mental health services.

Sue Baldwin is the programme manager of the advanced Diploma in Nursing Learning Disability Branch at the University of Leeds. Her input to the curriculum for the past few years has been on health and social care aspects of learning disability to a multi-professional audience. Sue has a particular interest in the mental health and welfare of people with a learning disability, and has published on risk assessment, and the role of the learning disability nurse. Her research interests include management of change with particular reference to institutional care, and more recently, eugenic attitudes of care staff towards people with a learning disability.

Jan Dargue works as Senior Lecturer at the University of Teesside, teaching across both pre and post registration nursing programmes within the School of Health and Social Care. Her clinical background was in community nursing. Having a special interest in tissue viability she worked as the tissue viability lead for the PCT, taking forward new initiatives, providing wound care education and developing wound care strategies prior to moving into education.

Liz Davies has many years of practice experience as a child protection manager and now teaches social work at undergraduate, postgraduate and post-qualifying levels. She has a particular interest in training police and social workers in joint investigation and interview skills and has developed an online multi-agency child protection training resource with Akamas Publishing. Liz writes widely on the subject and recently contributed to a 'Real Story' BBC television documentary 'Saving Becky' on the subject of the sexual exploitation of children.

Dave Fountain is a former instructor in the Army who spent time as a patient in intensive hospital care and as a resident in Victoria House, Hull, which caters for people with physical disabilities. He works part time at Mires Beck Nurseries, North Cave where he is taking his NVQ in horticulture. He lives independently in Hull.

Ruth Gili has over twelve years experience working as an occupational therapist in both adult and elderly mental health multi-disciplinary teams. She is currently working as an independent occupational therapy practitioner and life coach. Ruth’s specialist areas include training occupational therapists on occupational therapy theory and its application to practice and life coaching. Ruth has worked extensively in both the public and private sector.

Marion Grieves is Principal Lecturer within the University of Teesside, School of Health and Social Care and teaches across the nursing programme. Her research interests include use of Information Technology in nursing, inter-professional learning and developing communication skills. Her publications include Patient and Person: Empowering Interprofessional Relationships in Nursing (2004) Stevenson C., Grieves M., and Stein-Parbury J.

Carol Haigh is Senior Lecturer in research at the School of Nursing, University of Salford. She has published widely in the field of pain management and has recently contributed to the book Research Ethics in the Real World; Issues and Solutions for Health and Social care and is a member of the working party reviewing the Royal College of Nursing's 'Ethical Guidelines'.

Jacquie Horner works as Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Care at Teesside University. Prior to this, she was employed as a District Nursing Sister in a local PCT.

Diane Howard has taught on social care, counselling and education programmes. She is currently teaching on the Social Work Degree at Northumbria University and the Foundation Degree in Applied Social Care and Health Studies at Northumberland College. She is also currently working on a Dementia Diagnosis project with the Alzheimers Society. Her research interests include user participation in the evaluation of
residential services, the impact of training on practice and widening Higher Education participation for social care workers.

She has previously worked as a NISW consultant to residential care homes and published findings on staff development and the inspection process.

Maggie Jackson has been Senior Lecturer at University of Teesside since 1999. Previously she worked as a senior practitioner for the County Psychological Service in Cleveland. Her research interests are Loss and Death and Death Education.

Tony Long is Professor of Child and Family Health in the University of Salford, School of Nursing and Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Collaborative Research. He leads on research with children and families, publishing widely in this field as well as on health professional education and regulation. His book Excessive Crying in Infancy has received international acclaim, while Research Ethics in the Real World: Issues for Health and Social Care, co-edited with Martin Johnson, has become a core text for many programmes.

Ruth McDonald is currently employed at the University of Teesside as Senior Lecturer in Service Improvement. Prior to joining the university she was employed as a Clinical Lead for Continence, developing and providing integrated continence services for people with bladder and bowel problems. She has conducted research examining the experiences of living with urinary incontinence and the challenge of implementing an integrated continence service. She continues to work as a practitioner in a local PCT and her interests include continence care, leadership and service improvement and research.

Bernard Moss is Professor of Social Work Education and Spirituality at Staffordshire University where he has been leading the social work degree for the past four years. His particular interests are communication skills, the links between religion, spirituality and social work/social care practice, and death, dying and bereavement. He teaches on the Foundation Degree in Social Care, and also serves as a Link Tutor.

Juliette Oko is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Teesside.

Jennifer Newton co-ordinates post-graduate teaching in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University, and lectures on mental health and community care. Books published include 'Preventing Mental Illness' while working for National MIND, 'Care Management: is it working?' for the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, and chapters and papers on community care services.

Martin Page is a psychotherapist and Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at the University of Lincoln. He is programme leader of the M.Sc Trauma and Disaster Management Studies in the School of Health and Social Care. His research and writing focus is on the psychological needs of professionals who work in dangerous, hostile and threatening environments.

Jim Reid is Senior lecturer in Social Work at the University of Teesside where he teaches on qualifying and post qualifying programmes. Born in Belfast, he studied Social Work in Durham before working as a children and families social worker in Essex. He has made contributions to the development of social work education regionally as an advisor to a number of PQ Consortia, and nationally, through papers at conferences.

Jo Smith is Senior Lecturer in nursing skills development, University of Teesside. Her research interests are education, facilitating learning and clinical skills development.

Elizabeth Stuart-Cole is a medical practitioner with specialist qualifications in diabetes. She has lectured in health studies at Northumberland College and worked as a clinical assistant in diabetes at Newcastle General Hospital. She is undertaking socio-medical studies at Northumbria University.

Terry Thomas is Reader in criminal justice studies in the School of Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University.

Neil Thompson is Professor of Social Work and Well-being at Liverpool Hope University and a Director of Avenue Consulting Ltd ( www.avenueconsulting.co.uk). He has over 100 publications to his name, including best-selling texts, such as Anti-Discriminatory Practice (4th edn, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and People Skills (2nd edn, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). His latest book is Understanding Social Care (2nd edn, with Thompson, S., Russell House Publishing, 2007).

Sue Thompson is an independent social worker, practice teacher and mentor. She is also a director of Avenue Consulting Ltd, a company offering training and consultancy around social and workplace well-being issues. She has experience in both nursing and social work and is the author of Age Discrimination and From Where I’m Sitting - a training manual for staff working with older people.

Wade Tovey is Programmes Director of Social Work in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Teesside. He has leadership and consultancy interests in participation for people who use services and carers; youth inclusion; adult protection, partnership working and flexible learning, as chair of the Learning Resource Network (NE) and the Executive of Skills for Care and Board member of the Open Learning Foundation. He is editor of the Handbook of Postqualifying Practice (Jessica Kingsley, 2007).