This book, as the first exploration of suicide in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), illustrates the scarcity of suicide research in the discipline and argues that the leading cause of violent death worldwide is a multifaceted phenomenon that needs to be fully comprehended as a significant and often preventable form of world-wide violence.
This book addresses a timely and compelling emerging issue related to the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources and the sustainable development of the coastal community.
This book discusses approaches used by NGOs in formulating and implementing mental health care in the community in the context of high treatment gap, insufficient public expenditure on health, human resource shortages, heterogeneity of communities as well as cultural beliefs in India.
This book showcases current thinking on social work in the field of mental health and illness from a bio-ecological and spiritual framework reflecting the transition in mental health care from institution to community.
Exploring archaeology, community engagement and cultural heritage protection in South Asia, this book considers heritage management strategies through community engagement, bringing together the results of research undertaken by archaeologists, heritage practitioners and policy makers working towards the preservation and conservation of both cultural and natural heritage.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of local governance in China, and offers original analysis of key factors underpinning trends in this field drawing on the expertise of scholars both inside and outside China.
This collection examines a broad spectrum of natural and human-made disasters that have occurred in Japan and New Zealand, including WWII and the atomic bombing of Japan and two recent major earthquake events, the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Christchurch Earthquake, which occurred in 2011.
This book discusses the interconnected, complex and emerging risks in today's societies and deliberates on the various aspects of disaster risk reduction strategies especially through community resilience and responses.
Dieses praxisbezogene Buch bietet eine professionelle Anleitung zur Beendigung häuslicher Gewalt in Paaren und Familien und zur Förderung von Heilung und Sicherheit in der Folgezeit.
This book aims to equip mental health professionals to integrate discussions of sexual identity, health, wellness, and intimacy into the scope of their client's mental health, ensuring they are well-prepared to incorporate sexual functioning into core assessment, interventions, and treatment.
This book aims to equip mental health professionals to integrate discussions of sexual identity, health, wellness, and intimacy into the scope of their client's mental health, ensuring they are well-prepared to incorporate sexual functioning into core assessment, interventions, and treatment.
This book examines the process of population aging in China and its unique features, considers the social progress implied in China becoming a society with an aging population, and assesses the tremendous risks and challenges involved.
This book systematically reviews the experiences and problems encountered in the development of China's rural areas over the past three decades since the start of the country's economic reform.
This study examines and explains the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP) as well as the mediating role the institutional arrangement of SHI plays in this relationship in China.
This pivot examines non-governmental organization (NGO) interventions in two community development initiatives, namely social capital and community empowerment, and their role in funding and formulating development frameworks in developing countries like Bangladesh.
This book draws on contemporary theory and recent findings to provide researchers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students with essential resources, allowing them to better understand and support children, youth and adults with autism and significant communication impairments.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women's experiences within mental health services, demonstrating the need for a radical paradigm shift in how women's distress and experiences are understood.
Providing a framework for treating substance use disorders (SUDs) in office-based psychotherapy, the second edition of this trusted work has been updated throughout and features two entirely new chapters.
Este libro es una exploracion acerca del interes que mostraron los radicales, masones en su mayoria, por impulsar y promover proyectos de beneficencia, de asistencia social y medica, como politica publica, en el Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca durante el Olimpo Radical.
Producto de las investigaciones de cada uno de los autores sobre el Trabajo Social en América Latina, en este libro se suman los esfuerzos por entender y conocer las bases de la perspectiva teórico-metodológica-histórico-crítica, inédita en la formación de la mayoría de paises de habla hispana.
El libro constituye una "acción colectiva" promovida inicialmente desde el seminario permanente en el 2004, que un grupo de estudiantes y profesores de la Escuela de Trabajo Social y Desarrollo Humano de la Universidad del Valle llevó a cabo con el propósito de discutir colectivamente conceptos como sujetos, sujetos colectivos, acciones colectivas, identidad, identidad colectiva y desarrollo.
La Reconceptualización, tema recurrente en Trabajo Social, es para el autor asunto no debidamente investigado y cuya comprensión es necesaria para construir un sólido proyecto profesional.
Esta obra expone lo relacionado con la prueba ilícita desde un punto de vista teórico, abordando la realidad dentro de la casuística en derecho comparado.
"El programa "Atención al adulto mayor privado de la libertad en Colombia" se construyó con base en los resultados de una investigación sobre este aspecto particular, realizada en el año 2014, en la que participaron hombres y mujeres de diez Establecimientos de Reclusión del Orden Nacional –ERON–, aportando consideraciones sobre sus condiciones de vida y experiencias en prisión, desde la perspectiva de la adultez mayor.