Social work

An excellent source of information and ideas on the relationship between disability and spiritualityand how to improve itThis one-of-a-kind collection explores the relationship between spirituality and disability from a variety of Australian religious and spiritual viewpoints.

This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels.

It is widely acknowledged that many healthcare, behavioral health, and social service organizations provide less-than-optimal services and that the challenge of improving services depends on successfully changing organizational culture and climate.

This is history at its best.

La Paix Maintenant est la chronique d'une œuvre militante sortie des deux grandes guerres mondiales les plus cruelles commises au XXème siècle.

Teachers, counselors, therapists, parents and caregivers can use this engaging novel and guidebook to help to promote resilience within children, families and communities that have experienced traumatic stress.

Chronic Sorrow explores natural grief reactions to losses that are not final and continue to be present in the life of the griever.

Therapy with Men after Sixty is a breakthrough book for professionals that helps them open their clients' minds to new ways of thinking, behaving, and feeling about the aging process.

An invaluable resource for social work students, educators and practitioners, written by an author team with extensive professional experience.

Single Session Thinking and Practice teaches readers how to implement single session approaches by encouraging practitioners and clients to collaborate in making the most of every encounter.

Practising Welfare Rights aims to improve awareness among people working in social work and advice agencies about the skills required for effective welfare rights work, and offers guidance for managers and other professionals about how to develop a welfare rights service.

Children who come into conflict with the law are more likely to have experienced violence or adversity than their non-offending peers.

Here is a unique text that examines the lives of middle-aged and old women.

Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual impact of police work on police officers, administrators, emergency communicators, and their families.

Praise for the first edition "e;Finally, a social work practice text that makes a difference!

This text is a step-by-step, exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical social work problems.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013- 17) was one of the largest public inquiries in Australian history and one of the most important investigations into child abuse internationally.

Die AutorInnen dieses Bandes gehen der Frage nach, wie eine komplexe, aufeinander abgestimmte öffentliche Erziehung der Heranwachsenden gestaltet werden kann und welche Reformschritte dafür notwendig sind.

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has facilitated the understanding that disability is both a human rights and development issue.

Creating Meaning in Young Adulthood explores the ways in which young adults are creating meanings in life through their relationships with the world.

The number of sexual abuse disclosures by children has been increasing at a steady rate.

Available in paperback for the first time, Welfare Policy from Below is the most comprehensive study available of social exclusion in contemporary Europe.

Concise and practical yet comprehensive, this unique book provides a clear framework and a range of up-to-date tools for assessing patients with eating disorders.

Medical social work in Singapore traces its roots to the post-war period.

This book guides therapists trained in EMDR in the successful integration of the creative arts therapies to make the healing potential of EMDR safer and more accessible for patients who present with complex trauma.

Social workers must develop a sensitive yet informed approach when working with service users from different social and cultural groups.

In today's rapidly changing world, new social and human service problems emerge constantly, and in order to make good use of resources that are often limited, social service agencies must ensure that their services are truly needed.

There's so many different types of abuse, and it all comes down to the same thing.

This practical and important book offers ideas, examples, and suggestions that address the challenges inherent to developing and sustaining a successful family business.

This book integrates research on the causes, responses and protective strategies for vicarious trauma that are recognised in a range of human services and argues their relevance to the legal profession.

The Attachment-Based Focused Genogram Workbook is a hands-on guide for clinicians looking to integrate attachment research and family systems theory into their practice, with particular attention to intergenerational transmission processes.

The Reflective Practice Guide offers an accessible introduction to engaging effectively in critical reflection, supporting all students in their development of the knowledge and skills needed to enhance their professional practice.

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.

This book provides an introduction to social work practice in the field of health care.

First published in 1974, then reissued in 1986 with a long introduction by the author, which developed the analysis in the light of recent theory and related it to work done in the field since its first publication.

Highly accessible and user-friendly, this book focuses on helping K12 teachers increase their use of classroom management strategies that work.

This indispensable resource provides a flexible framework and a wealth of engaging tools for teaching mindfulness to children and adolescents with varying needs in school or clinical settings.

Justice and Legitimacy in Policing critically analyzes the state of American policing and evaluates proposed solutions to reform/transform the institution, such as implementing body-worn cameras, increasing diversity in police agencies, the problem of crimmigration, limiting qualified immunity, and the abolitionist movement.

This work is designed to bring together encyclopaedic information on social work.

This book describes how young Black men on a disadvantaged housing estate in London navigate the estate's expectations for their behaviour as they operate within a street code that endorses violence, knife-carrying and challenging masculinity.

Ministry With the Aging--the one most frequently used textbook in seminary courses that deal with ministry and aging--is now available from The Haworth Press.

In today's rapidly changing world, new social and human service problems emerge constantly, and in order to make good use of resources that are often limited, social service agencies must ensure that their services are truly needed.

Physicians and other helping professionals have created a practical, hands-on book that will aid in the identification and reduction of job stress.

Moral Injury After Abortion delves deeply into the psychospiritual responses that some women experience when an abortive act conflicts with their moral beliefs and values.

How do you apply the principles, structures and processes of the law to everyday practice?

Some of the most frightening and harmful violence in modern society takes place inside the family.

There has been a recent focus on how practitioners can engage with continuing professional learning and development.

Sexual offenders - arguably the most hated and feared of all offenders - commit their crimes in our communities and are then hidden from public view as they serve long prison sentences.

As a practising social worker, you will need to be able to make sound judgments in complex contexts and when you are under pressure.