Social work

This book explores how, why and when hermeneutic phenomenology can be used as a methodology in health and social research.

This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case studies of collaborative, systemic treatment of children and their parents.

This book provides a guide to narrative theory and practice; a form of therapy which views people as the experts on their own lives.

Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid portrait and appraisal of how the lives of poor people are disrupted or helped by the judicial system, from the lowest to the highest courts.

Updated and expanded to 124 entries, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the authoritative reference in the field.

Child neglect has been characterized over the past century as a problem of deficient care of children by mothers.

Community Change in Action guides students through the process of turning their personal passion into goal-driven action for community development.

Combining social therapeutics with the practice of coaching, this book guides coaches and mental health professionals in how to coach groups and couples using this innovative method.

This book will assist health and social care professionals to improve and open up further awareness of the characteristics of self-neglect.

`This book makes a significant contribution to the literature.

Evidence-based practice is now a core element of many governments' approaches to policy-making and social intervention.

School Crisis Response introduces a unique educational approach that provides compelling scenarios for the development of school crisis responders.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the history, definition, causes, effects, impacts and implications of climate change on young people globally, with a focus on Small Island Communities (SIDS) in particular.

First published in 1998, this volume explores the Australian welfare system in the 1980s through the lens of being 'bushed': lost, tired, confused and don't know which way to go.

Leaving Home presents a method of family therapy at the stage when children are leaving home.

This accessible textbook on transactional analysis (TA) provides a comprehensive overview of TA theory, with a strong emphasis throughout on practical application.

This book illustrates group dynamics and group interventions in response to diversity-related content and processes in group therapy.

"e;Science is a way of thinking about and investigating the accuracy of assumptions about the world.

This one stop resource highlights evidence-informed practice and serves as an accessible and invaluable resource for all working with individuals experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness and adult safeguarding.

Self-Care for Allied Health Professionals brings together a collection of self-care strategies into one easy-to-read volume, supporting Allied Health Professionals to do the best for their patients by caring for themselves.

In Foundations of Ethical Practice, Research, and Teaching in Psychology and Counseling, Kitchener and Anderson lay a conceptual foundation for thinking well about ethical problems.

Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society.

After-School Prevention Programs for At-Risk Students offers professionals a detailed framework for developing and enhancing after-school programs.

Criminal Justice Internships: Theory Into Practice, Tenth Edition, guides the student, instructor, and internship site supervisor through the entire internship process, offering advice and information for use at the internship site as well as pre-planning and assessment activities.

'This is the definitive book on philanthropy its history, contradictions and future' John Gray, Emeritus Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics'Good books lay out the lie of the land.

Absent fathers, the breakdown of the nuclear family, and single-mother households are often blamed for the poor quality of life experienced by many African American children.

This innovative, interdisciplinary course textbook is designed to provide the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the intersections of language, inequality, and social justice in North America, using the applied linguistic anthropology (ALA) framework.

Self-care involves taking action to support, protect or maintain wellbeing.

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This highly respected reference and text on developmental psychopathology brings together leading authorities on the psychological, biological, and social-contextual determinants of child and adolescent problems.

In einer Welt, die ständig Meinungen und Erwartungen an uns stellt, ist es eine wahre Kunst, sich selbst treu zu bleiben und das eigene Glück zu finden.

All children have a right to appropriate prevention, assessment and control of their pain.

Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations reflects on the tensions and contradictions that arise within debates on social inclusion, arguing that both the concept of social inclusion and policy surrounding it need to incorporate visions of citizenship that value ethnic diversity.

Frühe Hilfen sind als wichtige Ergänzung der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe aus der aktuellen Hilfe-Landschaft nicht mehr wegzudenken.

This book chronicles the school envisioned by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1933 to serve Arthurdale, the New Deal government-created community in north-central West Virginia.

What is communication and why is it important?

Expressive Arts Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents is the book so many expressive arts and trauma therapists have been waiting for.

Integrative therapy focuses on the mind-body-spirit relationship, recognizes spirituality as a fundamental domain of human existence, acknowledges and utilizes the mind's power as well as the body's, and reaches beyond self-actualization or symptom reduction to broaden a perception of self that connects individuals to a larger sense of themselves and to their communities.

This book explores the psychological trauma affecting soldiers and civilians who have encountered the violence of war or terrorism, arguing that the enigmas surrounding war trauma are rooted in culture, collective memory and social norms.

The one book you need to help your grieving clients move from heartache to hope.

Healing Trauma in Group Settings offers a unique focus on the highly valuable role of attuned co-leader relationships in the practice of healing trauma.

This book prepares doctoral learners and new counselor educators to enter into the profession of counselor education and supervision.

This accessible guide addresses the nature of the intrusive and unwanted thoughts that can be common in new parenthood, and offers practical answers and advice on how to tackle these.

Grief is a family affair.

Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live.

Features ASWB test-taking strategies and in-depth rationales for every question!

Social Work and Minorities examines the new challenges presented to Social Workers throughout Europe by the complex problems occasioned by increased migration and settlement and the growing awareness of the specific needs of refugees and asylum seekers.