Social work

Psychological Growth After Trauma is a guide to moving away from assumptions about trauma as a simple form of 'psychological damage.

Horrific Traumata shares the stories of persons whose meaning, hope, and faith were ripped from them by others or traumatic events and who live with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Social work skills are essential to good practice and more important than ever following changes to the social work curriculum.

Safeguarding is a serious and complex area of social work, and demonstrating an understanding of important theory, law, policy and skills for practice is essential and it is vital that this understanding extends across the lifespan.

Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement (MBWE) integrates Mindfulness and Wellbeing to realize human flourishing and the attainment of happiness.

How does a couples' therapist actually run a 50-minute session?

Assessing Disorganized Attachment Behaviour in Children lays out an evidence-based model for working with and assessing children with disorganized attachment and their adult carers: families whose extreme, erratic and disturbing behaviour can make them perplexing and frustrating to work with.

Be proud to be a lazy radical!

Prepares future professionals by presenting a practical guide to theory and practice.

Child protection made simple: the plain-speaking guide for all those concerned with the protection of children.

Berufsanfänger in der Psychiatrie und Psychosomatik müssen oft Gruppen leiten, ohne dafür ausgebildet zu sein.

Feminist theories of social work have been criticised in recent years for treating women as a uniform category and displaying insufficient sensitivity to the complex ways in which other social divisions (those of race, age, disability, etc.

In the past decades, social enterprise has been an emerging field of research.

A growing number of people immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, displaced individuals, and families lead lives that transcend national boundaries.

This book examines systemic family therapy research, addressing key topics across the interrelated disciplines of psychotherapy, social work, and counseling.

This book provides a concise overview of sexuality and gender identity in clients with intellectual disabilities for therapists, social workers, educators, and healthcare providers.

Therapists new to Single-Session Therapy (SST) will often struggle to bring the SST mindset to the work and will in turn struggle to help their clients get the most out of the time that they choose to spend together.

Is psychoanalysis in decline?

Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Sannyodo, which comprises eight provinces and four prefectures today.

This book provides a look at philosophical practice from the viewpoint of the practitioner or prospective practitioner.

The therapeutic potential of working with clients' mental images is widely acknowledged, yet there is still little in the counselling and psychotherapy literature on more inclusive approaches to the clinical applications of mental imagery.

Diabetes and Wellbeing presents a range of effective psychological principles proven to positively impact the emotional wellbeing of individuals with type 1 and 2 diabetes.

Leaders and Legacies discusses leadership involvements in the historical development of the profession of counseling.

The importance of play in children's health and care services, both as a form of therapy and as a distraction, is often overlooked.

The Day the Sky Fell In is a therapeutic story about letting go of worries and emotional baggage.

At the threshold of the 21st Century many people are faced with a spiritual dilemma, where neither secularism nor religion seem adequate.

Children experiencing bereavement are often confused, unprepared, and in need of help and support from those around them.

Using African epistemologies to understand contributing social and cultural factors around African school violence, this book investigates various kinds of school-based violence suffered by learners and teachers in order to further research into the impact of educational interventions on crime prevention in African schools.

In one indispensable volume, this book combines a complete overview of night eating syndrome (NES) with evidence-based treatment guidelines and clinical tools.

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.

Writing is an important skill, not just for a social work degree, but also as an integral part of practice.

Otger Autrata und Bringfriede Scheu entfalten eine grundsätzliche Bestimmung von Theorie Sozialer Arbeit wie auch von Verstehen.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to psychodrama, including the underlying philosophy, methodology, theory and applications.

This succinct and insightful guide to reflective practice is designed for students and practitioners across a range of professions in the human services - social work, healthcare and related fields.

This book discusses the need to establish social work for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) with an emphasis on the emerging role of effective and sustainable social interventions for the control and elimination of NTDs.

Defining the value in health care and elaborating appropriate value-propositions for health care beneficiaries poses numerous empirical and normative challenges.

East Asian societies are changing rapidly, and one of the most important facets of this transformation is population the ageing.

Despite the pivotal role played by parents in the child protection process, little attention has been paid to how social workers perceive them.

Professionalism, Boundaries and the Workplace is a practical text that examines a range of sensitive issues concerned with managing and maintaining professional boundaries between worker and client.

This volume explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' interactions with public sector bureaucracies.

This engaging book is a comprehensive exploration of children's happiness and success covering a wide range of factors influencing positive functioning.

Recommended Year Group: 8+Show Length: 80 mins Sophia feels stifled by boarding school life, has a poor body image and struggles to control her mood.

This is the first book that examines healthy human relationships in post-apartheid South Africa.

This highly practical guidebook will help you develop the critical and analytical skills essential to your successful social work education and evidence-informed, reflective practice.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation helped to create and maintain a cultural and intellectual infrastructure in Canada that benefited key institutions such as University of Toronto, McGill University, the National Gallery, the Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council.

This fully-integrated volume written by the leading experts in the field of social work presents a wide rage of therapeutic paradigms.

This all-in-one text assists human service practitioners, and the students of human service educational programs, in the evaluation of their practice with their clients.

Discover the physical and mental benefits of outdoor spaces for the elderlyThe Role of the Outdoors in Residential Environments for Aging presents new insights on the positive role nature and the outdoors can play in the lives of older adults, whether they live in the community, in an assisted-living environment, or in a skilled nursing

Many books on solution-focused brief therapy provide histories, overviews, and uses of the approach.