Social work

This book examines choice and preference in the lives of people with disability, focusing on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

There are nearly two million inmates in America today.

This accessible textbook draws upon progressions in academic, political and global arenas, to provide a comprehensive overview of practical issues in psychological work across a diverse range of community settings.

Group Work Stories Celebrating Diversity is a most timely book about group work practice and education that highlights the theme of diversity, which encompasses acceptance and respect for various dimensions of difference.

The Magic of Mentoring offers an introduction to the theory and practice of successful mentoring together with a unique focus on how mentors can reflect on the skills they bring to the role, and those they still need to develop.

In Training the Counsellor, Mary Connor shares a decade of training experience to provide an invaluable resource for other counsellor trainers.

The second edition of Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress expands the five evidence-informed CE-CERT practices for supporting emotional well-being in workers exposed to the effects of secondary trauma.

This book presents an integrated treatment approach for those struggling to adapt after the sudden, traumatic death of a loved one.

Disaster responders treat more than just the immediate emotional and psychological trauma of victims: they empower individuals and families to heal themselves long into a disaster's aftermath.

When Government Helped systematically evaluates some parallels between The Great Depression and the 2007-2008 global economic meltdown, not only in terms of their economic causes and consequences, but also in terms of their political and cultural contexts and the environmental crises that afflict both periods.

The person-centred approach is one of the most popular, enduring and respected approaches to psychotherapy and counselling.

Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform.

What is it like to live with a chronic illness?

In our society, medication is often seen as the treatment for severe mental illness, with psychotherapy a secondary treatment.

The highly respected and widely known Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Sufferers and Friends was written in 1997.

White Supremacist Violence is a powerful resource for education and mental health professionals who are developing the tools and skills needed to slow the progress of the fast-growing hate movement in the United States.

Parental drug use can cause serious harm to children.

Parricide and Violence Against Parents takes a historical and criminological approach to the research on parricide and violence against parents, placing the research in the context of social development from the 1500s to contemporary society, and giving a global overview and comparison.

In line with current government policy and related recommendations, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, mental health students will be increasingly required to either engage in, or be appropriately familiar with, the principles of cognitive behavioural interventions.

Explore shame's revelatory and transformative potential within Christianity and the Church Learn to understand shame to allow for positive change in your clients and parishioners.

Children deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them?

This book explores the main areas of social work law, including children, mental health and community care.

First Published in 2004.

Social Policy, the Media and Misrepresentation examines aspects of news media reporting of social policy and how such coverage can influence processes of policy-making and implementation.

Now in its fifth edition, this definitive guide to counselling adolescents has introduced thousands of trainees and practitioners to the theory, principles, skills and techniques of proactively counselling this client group.

Henley Business School's Coaching Book of the Year 2019!

Examining the black church's response to AIDS, Somebody's Knocking at Your Door: AIDS and the African-American Church analyzes sexual ethics and homophobia in the black church to provide pastors, social workers, and health professionals with intervention strategies for parishioners or members of the community who have AIDS.

This book provides multiple frameworks and paradigms for social work education which integrates indigenous theories and cultural practices.

The care paradigm for people with HIV has shifted from managing progressive illness with a poor prognosis to managing a chronic condition.

An important contribution to the understanding of the unique circumstances and needs of the homeless, Diversity Within the Homeless Population examines why more and more women and their children, adolescents, and young adults are ending up on the street.

This exciting new edition provides an overview of the main professional, ethical and research issues that are required knowledge for counsellors, therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists engaging in therapeutic or clinical work.

Global Leadership & Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work is a unique and personal look at coaching, leading and working internationally, bringing together inspiring, original and dramatic stories of leadership from around the world.

Written from a unique interprofessional perspective, this book is an essential introduction to working with children, young people and families.

In this book Erik de Haan encourages coaches to reflect on their coaching practices and reassess the tensions within the coaching relationship.

A healthy marriage is the result of much more than a stroke of good fortune, the accidental meeting of two "e;soul mates,"e; or a conscious commitment to stay together no matter what.

In second edition, social work and mental health students and practitioners across the full spectrum of social service settings gain essential knowledge into cutting edge issues in the assessment and treatment of families from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Using a case-based approach to connect the classroom and the practice environment, this foundational text incorporates a broad set of themes that include advocacy, social justice, global focus, ethics, theory, and critical thinking.

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Queer Sites in Global Contexts showcases a variety of cross-cultural perspectives that foreground the physical and online experiences of LGBTQ+ people living in the Caribbean, South and North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.

Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice argues for placing trauma-informed practice and thinking at the heart of forensic services.

This book presents findings of systematic research into the contested meanings of development and wellbeing from a country, Peru, which has recently experienced both rapid economic growth and deep social conflict.

First published in 1995.

Almost everywhere across the world, economic inequality has been rising within and across national borders.

Domestic violence affects all areas of social work.

Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations.

Fully revised and updated throughout, this fourth edition of Lena Dominelli's influential book retains its reputation as the go-to text on anti-racist social work practice.

New Labour deployed community as a conceptual framework to rearticulate the state / citizen relationship to be enacted at and through new spaces of governance.

Using Psychoanalytic Techniques to Transform the Attachment Relationship to God demonstrates how clinicians can use Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy (AIP) to enhance clients' understanding of their relationship to God and significant others.

Mindfulness for Coaches accessibly presents theory and research on the benefits of mindfulness training and explores how mindfulness can feature in coaching work.