Endorsed by Edexcel.
Collins Health and Social Care AS for Edexcel is written specifically for the AS level Edexcel award. Endorsed by Edexcel, it covers both e single and double award.
Compiled by a team of examiners and practitioners, this full-colour textbook is designed at exactly the right level to help you get the most out of your course.
About This Book
Unit 1: Human Growth and Development
Unit 2: Communications and Values in Care
Unit 3: Positive Care Environments
Unit 4: Social Aspects of Health and Social Care
Unit 5: Activities for Health and Wellbeing
Unit 6: Public Health
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Mark Walsh is a writer, teacher and mental health nurse. He works with both further and higher education students, teaching health and social care and social science courses. Mark has written a wide range of bestselling textbooks and teacher resources, and has worked as an educational teaching consultant, and as a senior examiner.
Richard Chaloner is a former senior lecturer, an experienced INSET tutor, and has co-authored several best-selling health and social care textbooks. He has been a principal examiner in health and social care, and is currently a principal examiner, for major awarding bodies.
"b"Paul Stephens"/b" obtained a BSc and a PhD in Sociology at the University of London, and he is now an associate professor at the University of Stavanger in Norway. He is involved in a number of health-related research projects, including 'promoting the will to live among heart patients' and 'shyness and depression among adolescent girls and boys'.