Social Work In Europe: Educating for Change Author:Editors: Karen Lyons & Sue Lawrence The main Acts in Scotland

The main Acts in Scotland which support and protect adults at risk with mental disorder are:

As a result older people have moved from being a marginal concern to one of central importance in social work

such as mental health officers

offering a systematic global comparison of the professional features of social work

has sought to link ‘public issues’ and ‘private troubles’ (or

Social Work In Europe: Educating for Change Author:Editors: Karen Lyons & Sue Lawrence The main Acts in ScotlandSocial work is a diverse and contested activity in which national traditions and cultural factors affect its form and its adaptation to changing political and socio economic conditions. However, the education and research which underpin this professional field are increasingly open to influences from outside local and national boundaries. Social Work in Europe takes a thematic approach to an analysis of such external influences and the learning