Social work

This wide-ranging collection of essays offers valuable insights into the cultural issues involved in the practical application of social work theories.

Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Trauma, 2nd edition, lays out a unified framework of neural plasticity and resilience and places it within a broader social context.

This pragmatic guide spells out how to use motivational interviewing (MI) to have productive conversations about behavior change with adolescents and young adults in any clinical context.

Supervision has been a major component of initial training and an important element for professional development in the very wide field of mental healthcare.

The second edition of Transactional Analysis: 100 Key Points and Techniques synthesizes developments in Transactional Analysis (TA) and psychotherapy research, making complex ideas accessible and offering therapists practical guidance on refining TA psychotherapy skills.

Revitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New Directions revises some of the major perspectives in victimization theory, applies theoretical perspectives to the victimization of vulnerable populations, and carves out new theoretical territory that is clearly needed but has yet to be developed.

„Das ist ja alles ganz schön und gut, was wir hier lernen, aber in der Praxis weht ein ganz an- rer Wind!

Despite the critical role that community-based supervisors play in the training of social work students, there has been no comprehensive resource for core informationuntil now.

Originally published in 1979.

Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice places the natural environment as central to practice.

This book has been replaced by Music Therapy Handbook, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5692-2.

Fachkräfte der Sozialen Arbeit werden in ihrem Alltag häufig mit Tätern und Opfern von Straftaten konfrontiert.

Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability to the public sector.

Perspectives in Social Work was originally published in 1977 and provides a text for social workers in training to use.

It's often assumed that criminologists know a great deal about violent offenders, but in fact, there is little consensus about what distinguishes them from those who commit less serious crimes.

Avant la mise en œuvre du programme d’égalité sociale, dans les années 1960, la plupart des Néo-Brunswickois, dont de nombreux francophones, avaient un accès limité à l’aide sociale, à l’éducation et aux services de santé.

This groundbreaking book examines the ways in which questions of culture and diversity impact on the values and ethics of social work.

SchülerInnen ohne Ausbildungsplatz oder Schulabschluss soll durch ihre Teilnahme an einjährigen schulischen Bildungsangeboten zur Ausbildungsreife verholfen werden.

Grief and Addiction illuminates the role of grief work in addiction counseling, encouraging counselors to be more comprehensive in their treatment and to increase empathy for what the treatment process is asking of clients.

Too many juvenile delinquents persist in their offending into adulthood.

This stimulating resource presents the Looming Vulnerability Model, a nuanced take on the cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of anxiety, worry, and other responses to real or imagined threat.

This book bears testimony to the value of a progressive form of academisation of social work education in most European countries, including former communist countries which had to re-establish social work education.

This collection of articles by Constance T.

Dr Alistair Ross is a University of Oxford academic whose previous work has been described by Ruby Wax as very, very smart.

Complete with a foreword by the late Terry Bogg, this handy pocketbook provides accessible guidance to health and social care practitioners on the day-to-day aspects of using and applying the Mental Capacity Act.

This is the first manifesto for Health Humanities worldwide.

Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic Welfare State provides an ambiguous yet disturbing portrait of the inner workings of the Danish welfare state and its implications in a context of globalisation and migration.

The toll of America's gun violence epidemic is usually measured in lives lost-more than 35,000 each year.

Are cultural centers ethnic enclaves of segregation, or safe havens that provide minority students with social support that promotes persistence and retention?

Transforming Emotional Pain presents an accessible self-help approach to mental health based on Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der zentralen Frage nach einem wertorientierten und an Normen ausgerichteten Sozialen Handeln und dessen philosophisch-ethischer Grundlegung.

Anstaltsskandale, revoltierende Zöglinge sowie die drei großen Fürsorgeprozesse waren Ausdruck der Krise der Fürsorgeerziehung Ende der 1920er Jahre.

The Restorative Nature of Ongoing Connections with the Deceased is a guide to stimulating thought and discussion about ongoing attachments between bereaved individuals and their deceased loved ones.

Women have always played an important, and dominant, role in social work.

Supervision is currently a "e;hot topic"e; in social work.

Drawing on intersectional theorising, Homelessness and Social Work highlights the diversities and complexities of homelessness and social work research, policy and practice.

Spirituality and religion are fundamental to all human cultures.

In an era of rapid technological change, are qualitative researchers taking advantage of new and innovative ways to gather, analyse and share community narratives?

This title was first published in 2002: Why are rates of suicidal behaviour in Chinese adolescents so high?

Information and communication technologies have transformed the dynamics of contention in contemporary society.

An indispensable collection of real-life clinical cases from practicing experts in the field of multicultural counseling and psychotherapy Case Studies in Multicultural Counseling and Therapy is a one-of-a-kind resource presenting actual cases illustrating assessment, diagnostic, and treatment concerns associated with specific populations.

With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia.

Living with Mental Illness in a Globalised World systematically examines the manifold contributions to the burdens of living with mental illness in a developing and globalised world.

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Secondary Schools is a humanistic guide used to produce reliable human capital outputs while ensuring the promotion of socially just practices on campus.

Restorative practice (RP) has been successfully implemented in schools for decades and is primarily associated with improving behaviour and relationships, by changing the culture of problem solving in the school.

This handbook examines the wide-ranging applications of positive psychology in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

After family violence, very young children and babies benefit from child-led therapy, but how do you achieve this?

Awarded the book prize for 2012 by the Australasian Journal on Ageing!