Social work

Discrimination based on body weight is an underestimated and widespread problem.

Children's nurses are faced with unique challenges when undertaking clinical skills, adapting their knowledge and practice for the physical and developmental age of their patients.

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff.

Key to understanding drug misuse is an awareness of the full range of models that seek to define, explain and treat the problem.

Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low.

A major new contribution to college student development theory, this book brings "e;third wave"e; theories to bear on this vitally important topic.

This title was first published in 2003.

African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families, Second Edition is a historically and culturally centered research-based text designed for use in undergraduate, graduate, and community-based courses on African American relationships, marriages, and families.

Online and Distance Social Work Education: Current Practice and Future Trends provides a comprehensive presentation on the evolution, current status and future direction of distance learning and online education in the social work profession.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behaviors is a definitive resource about addictive behaviors, emphasizing substance misuse, gambling, and problematic technology use.

A practical, hands-on workbook, Becoming an EffectiveSupervisor neatly fills the gap in supervision resources available to mental health practitioners.

Social work students consistently struggle to apply theory to practice, or use the knowledge of textbooks and classrooms in the field.

Mental health professionals provide better care to their clients when they care for themselves.

Praise for HANDBOOK of HEALTH SOCIAL WORK SECOND EDITION "e;Handbook of Health Social Work, Second Edition is a crucial addition for seasoned practitioners' libraries, as well as an essential foundation for fledgling social workers ready to enter health as a practice and research area.

Religion can play a vital role in the way people relate to each other, particularly with interpersonal dynamics within a family.

Significant amounts of money and resources are spent on child and family services, so successful evaluation of whether or not they are achieving the best outcomes is therefore essential.

How can we raise the standard of living of the world's poor and maintain high levels of social health and well-being in the developed world, while simultaneously reducing the environmental damage wrought by human activity?

Spirituality and religion are fundamental to all human cultures.

A practical companion to the much-acclaimed Transforming Conflict through Insight, Practising Insight Mediation is a book about how insight mediators do their work and why they do it that way.

This book aims to explore the nature and extent of the 'care deficit' problem in European societies and how effective the different care systems are in dealing with these problems through policy innovation.

As governments throughout the world experience increasing fiscal challenges, the pressures on public sectors to streamline services and harness technological advances is unprecedented.

The role of psychotherapists in creating change for survivors of sexual violence can extend far wider than the rooms in which appointments are provided.

Examine new research and innovative programs targeted to serve vulnerable populations!

Youth work is a means of promoting learning, equality and inclusion with young people.

In the United States and Great Britain, 20-30% of all homicides involve the killing of a woman by a man.

This second edition of Solution-focused Therapy remains the most accessible yet comprehensive case-based introduction to the history, theory, research and practice of solution-focused therapy (SFT) within mental health care and beyond.

Anxiety in children and adolescents is expected and normal at specific times in development.

This comprehensive volume offers ideas, examples, and guidance to help coaches develop skills in their coaching practice, specifically in the areas of health and wellbeing as they are experienced by their clients.

Human mental capacities and processes are the raw materials with which psychotherapists work.

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Creative Arts Therapies uses a case-based approach to provide practical guidance for practitioners on the skillful application of ethical decision-making in art therapy.

The Royal British Legion was founded in 1921.

Written for researchers, practitioners, and students in advanced courses, this book furthers our understanding of the complexity of contemporary families.

Without a doubt, structural and institutionalised racism is still present in Britain and Europe, a factor that social work education and training has been slow to acknowledge.

Stories Celebrating Group Work: It's Not Always Easy to Sit on Your Mouth celebrates the 25th anniversary of the esteemed journal Social Work with Groups with a collection of 21 narratives from group work practitioners and educators.

Clinicians recognize trauma & loss as a prominent source of clients' problems.

Identifying 13 core techniques and strategies that cut across all available evidence-based treatments for child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, this book provides theoretical rationales, step-by-step implementation guidelines, and rich clinical examples.

Trainees and practitioners need a trusted resource for mastering the essential skills and competencies necessary for effecting deep, lasting change in their clients.

Excessive stress has become one of the world's leading health hazards, taking its toll on loved ones, friends and co-workers.

Personal development (PD) groups are a key feature of many counsellor training programmes.

This book offers fresh perspectives on childhood, adolescence, human diversity, and learning.

Practitioners, organisations and policy makers in health and social care settings are increasingly recognising the need for trauma-informed approaches in organisational settings, with morbidity and financial burdens being of growing concern.

Considering the potential and peril of Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) in England and Wales as a way of learning from domestic abuserelated deaths, this book examines what DARDRs - first known as Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) - are understood as being for, what is used by and in DARDRs, and how DARDRs are themselves used.

Remaking Social Work with Children and Families provides a sustained examination of the 'modernisation' of this area of social care.

Grounded in extensive research, this book presents a brief emotion-focused coping skills program that helps clients regulate their affective responses in stressful situations.

A number of books have explored the ways psychotherapy clients can benefit from learning and practicing mindfulness.

Today, political claims are increasingly made on the basis of experienced trauma and inherent vulnerability, as evidenced in the growing number of people who identify as a "e;survivor"e; of one thing or another, and also in the way in which much political discourse and social policy assumes the vulnerability of the population.

Our book aims to provide those working in the maternity services, including those in general practices, with an understanding of what it means to be on the receiving end of care.

In the early 1980s in Britain the organisation of the personal social services had come under increasingly critical scrutiny.

This book offers speech and language therapists, and other allied health professionals, a practical resource for working in a distinctive way with children and young people, and their parents, to achieve their 'best hopes' from therapy.