Social work

Though much has been written about twins, very little research has been done into their everyday lives, both postnatal and prenatal.

The second and completely revised edition of the Routledge Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood draws on the work of leading academics from four continents in order to introduce up-to-date perspectives on a wide range of issues that affect and shape youth and young adulthood.

Treating Traumatic Stress in Adults is a resource for therapists of all disciplines for use in the treatment of adults suffering from post-traumatic stress.

Use these ideas in your social work practice to help the whole person--including your client's spiritual side!

Praise for the First Edition: `All readers will be drawn to the style of the book as well as its content.

Based on data collected through in-depth fieldwork observation and interviews in Bai Township, this book examines how women with disabilities in rural Southwest China compensate for their disability identity through marriage.

Originally published in 1941 and written in an attempt to dispute the popular assumption at the time that a 'bit of discipline' is what is needed for the correction of young men who show delinquent tendencies, this book is much more than that.

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide.

Several thousand years ago Indo-European culture diverged into two ways of thinking; one went West, the other East.

In Changepower!

Existiert in einer Familie chronische – körperliche oder psychische – Krankheit, so wirkt sich das auf die ganze Familie aus.

Diese qualitativ-rekonstruktiv angelegte empirische Studie zeigt, dass die Konstruktionen von ‚Behinderung‘ und ‚Normalität‘ in ihren Erscheinungsformen von den Handlungsorientierungen frühpädagogischer Fachkräfte abhängig sind.

Going Local explains how social work students and practitioners can develop approaches to neighbourhood work, to engage communities and neighbourhoods more purposefully and to work with citizens and other mainstream and community service providers to build the capacity of neighbourhoods to tackle social problems on their own.

This book creates a scope for achieving mental wellbeing apart from the currently dominant mental health practices, critiqued for their damaging effects on individuals and families.

In the past 20 years, the progressive uncovering of child sexual abuse in institutional settings has reverberated across the globe with simultaneous investigations across Europe and the English-speaking world.

With each chapter representing a session, this engaging book is a guide to working collaboratively with individuals and incorporating recovery principles into your therapeutic practice.

Critical social work encourages emancipatory personal and social change.

The characteristics of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) present unique challenges, not only to people themselves affected, but also to counselling professionals.

Widely regarded as the definitive practitioner reference and teaching text, this book provides a complete introduction to doing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with 6- to 18-year-olds.

En este estudio, el profesor José Navarro Góngora aborda la violencia en las relaciones de pareja y entre hijos y padres, desde el punto de vista de la salud mental.

Outlaw bikers represent a very small percentage of motorcycle riders who join motorcycle clubs, but they receive disproportionate attention due to their mystique, unconventional behavior, and violence.

This new edition of Mental Health Social Work in Context continues to be an authoritative, evidence-based introduction to a core area of the social work curriculum.

We all want to be happy, and there are plenty of people telling us how it can be achieved.

Mit diesem Band lenken Rainer Zech und Claudia Dehn die Aufmerksamkeit auf einen oft vernachlässigten Aspekt der Arbeit von Organisationen.

Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers.

For children growing up in foster care, the role of their birth parents is an important factor in the success of their long-term placements.

Transform and enhance your working relationships through mindful co-working.

Everyday work for many specialists in the social professions is characterized by stress and overwork.

Record Keeping in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Ethics, Practice and Supervision, grounded in contemporary challenges, emphasizes protecting the therapeutic and supervisory relationship through offering an essential framework for thoughtful record keeping within legal, ethical, supervisory, and clinical contexts.

This book focuses on the nature of cross-cultural practice, an inevitable aspect of working as a youth and community worker in multicultural Britain today.

Maligned as "e;deadbeat dads"e; or sexually and financially irresponsible inner-city fathers and overlooked in discussions of poverty and family policy, economically vulnerable nonresident fathers are a greatly misunderstood population.

Gain new insight into panic and anxiety-related disorders!

Within this accessible volume, Nelson and Delmedico apply a Jungian approach to provide fresh ways of thinking about couples therapy, and the profound unconscious forces at play when couples create a life together.

If you are interested in making your practice solution-focused quickly and effectively, look no further than this text.

This innovative, interdisciplinary course textbook is designed to provide the who, what, where, when, why, and how of the intersections of language, inequality, and social justice in North America, using the applied linguistic anthropology (ALA) framework.

For anyone considering a career in one of the many counseling professions but undecided on which one to pursue, this book will be an excellent resource.

Over 5 million copies sold worldwide and translated into seven languages!

Sociology can help students understand why and how so many of the problems their service users face occur in the first place, helping them choose effective ways to communicate and make informed decisions on how their needs can be fully met.

Increase the effectiveness of the services you provide to clientsSocial Work Visions from Around the Globe examines the fundamental principles and dilemmas of social work with people whose health is under threat.

This popular textbook gives students a practical understanding of the broad range of skills they will need during the course of their studies and throughout their youth work career.

Presenting a collection of classic and recent papers reprinted from the Journal of Individual Psychology and Individual Psychology that represent the purpose, methods and spirit of techniques in Adlerian psychology.

Vivons-nous aujourd’hui face à la volonté hégémonique des populismes, des nationalismes identitaires et des autocraties guerrières totalitaires, dans une époque de l’éclipse totale des utopies ?

Nature-Based Play Therapy brings a theoretical basis to arguments for including nature in play therapy and provides tools for that inclusion with a prescriptive model.

Following a life shattering experience, a child enters upon a confusing emotional journey that can be likened to a prism of many colors of dark feelings like sadness and fear, but also warm feelings of love and courage.

This new book explores the historical development of mediation (conflict resolution) from a cultural and existential perspective, and considers the cultural challenges involved for a mediator.