Social work

"e;This book is an indispensable and uniquely placed resource for any social work student daunted by the prospect of the dissertation, or indeed for practitioners who are starting out in research.

The Phenomenology of Sex, Love, and Intimacy presents a phenomenological exploration of love as it manifests itself through sexual desires and intimate relationships.

This authoritative collection sets out the critical role and application of evaluation in identifying and developing good practice in a range of dementia care settings.

"e;A diverse and extremely useful set of chapters at the cutting edge of thinking on work with sexual minorities.

Das Gruppendiskussionsverfahren in seiner Fundierung durch die dokumentarische Methode hat in den letzten Jahren eine breite Bedeutung in unterschiedlichen Feldern der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung gewonnen.

This book establishes community engagement and service-learning as pathways to advancing human development and common good.

The required research sequence is perhaps the most dreaded element of a BSW or MSW program for students who don't see the applicability of research methods and data analysis to the "e;real world"e; of practice.

This exciting new resource offers a comprehensive guide to ADHD, the most frequently diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder and one of the most researched areas in child mental health.

This book examines the phenomenon of Community Justice Centres and their potential to transform the justice landscape by tackling the underlying causes of crime.

Making the case for an integrated approach to the practices of counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, Personal Consultancy provides a coherent and systematic framework for working with clients.

Public service values are too rarely discussed in public administration courses and scholarship, despite recent research demonstrating the importance of these values in the daily decision making processes of public service professionals.

Counselling professionals are increasingly seeking training for working with gender variant clients.

This convenient and easy-to-use orientation reference and care guide provides new neonatal nurses and their preceptors with the core information they need to provide all aspects of safe, effective, holistic care to newborn infants and their families.

Based on more than 30 years of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and a therapist, Dr.

Dieses einzigartige Praxishandbuch ersetzt »einen Regalmeter« Interventionsliteratur.

This unique volume explores a growing collaboration between the sport and health sectors to deliver innovative public health interventions in the community.

This book sets out a cognitive perspective on clinical social work practice that emphasized the role of social sources of information in shaping personal meanings.

This social work book is the first of its kind, describing practical steps that social workers can take to shape and influence both policy and politics.

Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women, yet most of the existent literature does not focus on this group as women.

There is great diversity of definitions, causes and consequences of discrimination against persons with disabilities, yet there are fundamental themes uniting countries in their pursuit of human rights policies to improve the social and economic status of those with disabilities.

This book develops a legal argument as to how persons with intellectual disability can flourish in a liberal setting through the exercise of human rights, even though they are perceived as non-autonomous.

The definitive reference in the field--now significantly revised with 75% new material--this volume examines typical and atypical development from birth to the preschool years and identifies what works in helping children and families at risk.

Shadows in the Sun covers the immediate, short- and long-term responses and subsequent generational effects of sibling bereavement and discusses sibling responses in the context of the variables which influence them.

This book outlines how undergraduate students engage with civic and community projects and how this can be encouraged by their universities.

Contains papers from an international symposium held at the Werner Reimers Foundation in Bad Homburg, Germany in May 1990.

This book places career development into the mainstream of human development research and theory.

Discover groundbreaking findings on a hidden epidemic -- and why it so often is misdiagnosed.

Building on insights from ecological economics and philosophy of technology, this book offers a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understand the contradictory nature of Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology.

Das Buch bietet zu den theoretischen Grundlagen des Controllings Einblicke in die Praxis der deutschen und österreichischen Sozialwirtschaft.

Over decades, noted authority Jonathan S.

By adopting a comparative approach, this book investigates the philosophy, policy, practices, and challenges of inclusive education in the Chinese contexts, recognizing influences of Chinese culture, such as Confucianism, collectivism, and familism.

The Person of the Therapist Training Model presents a model that prepares therapists to make active and purposeful use of who they are, personally and professionally, in all aspects of the therapeutic process-relationship, assessment and intervention.

This book explores tazkiya therapy, a holistic psychological approach based on Qur'anic guidance and rooted in the understanding of human beings as multidimensional -that is, physical, psychological, social and spiritual beings.

No other mainstream theologian has so consistently and trenchantly taken a stand with and for people with developmental disabilities.

Updated for todays health care climate, the revised and expanded second edition of this popular volume offers a thorough introduction to clinical work with this difficult-to-treat population.

This book traces the journey of Mahatma Gandhi, from being a simple and truth-seeking human being, a satyarthi, to a committed, conscious and social human being, a satyagrahi.

First published in 1993.

This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue.

Crafting Scholarship helps readers improve their writing and publishing success in academia.

Eminently practical and authoritative, this comprehensive clinical handbook brings together leading international experts on eating disorders to describe the most effective treatments and how to implement them.

This text makes a primary and informed contribution to a subject that is under-researched in the UK - the suicide of those who work in the UK police service - by offering an analysis of UK case studies of officers and staff who have either completed suicide or experienced suicide ideation, and referring to the likely prime suicide precipitators in these situations.

In this book of lessons learned from working as a psychotherapist for over 40 years, Dr.

Noted for its multisystemicecological perspective, this accessible text and practitioner resource has now been revised and expanded with 60% new material.

In contrast to the bulk of the literature on foreign aid, which deals with it as an instrument of foreign policy or focuses on problems of implementation, this book examines the role of the aid agencies themselves, from a recipient's perspective, and provides longitudinal as well as comparative analysis.

Critical Multiculturalism and Intersectionality in a Complex World guides the reader through a process of critical self-reflection that allows for examination of social identities, biases, and experiences of oppression and privilege.

This book develops a care justice framework to critique and disrupt current policies and reframe a policy blueprint for elevating a just organization of care for unpaid family caregivers and underpaid home care workers assisting older adults.

Environmental Practice in the Human Services points to the need for the human services to return to their historic mission of environmental change.

"e;Authors Sharon Aiken-Wisniewski, Rich Whitney, and Deborah Taub have done a great service to student affairs and to student learning and development with this fine book, The Missing Competency: A Program Development Model for Student Affairs.