Social work

A Forensic Approach to Political and State Violence applies a forensic lens to the study of risk in relation to political and state violence.

Worldwide societal problems such as mass unemployment, growing social disparities, public and private poverty, social exclusion, environmental destruction and the evidence of climate change are increasing and becoming ever more visible.

Im Jahr 1980 erschien die erste Auflage dieses Lehrbuches unter dem Titel "Sozialpolitik - Eine problemorientierte Einführung".

Preventing the School-to-Prison Pipeline is the first book written to provide school psychologists and other K-12 mental health professionals with knowledge and strategies intended to help them disrupt the criminalization of historically oppressed learners in today's classrooms.

The exciting new edition of this well-loved textbook offers a fully expanded and revised account and analysis of the youth justice system in the UK, taking into account and fully addressing the significant changes that have taken place since the second edition in 2007.

Originally published in 1938, The Voluntary Citizen discusses the distinctive features of charity and voluntary social service and gives the author's views as to their scope and limitations, especially in relation to the public social services at the time.

Move through emotional triangles toward a natural systems view of the individual in the context of the family and society Triangles: Bowen Family Systems Theory Perspectives presents clear applications of Murray Bowen's concept of the emotional triangle in the family, the organization, and society.

Written by experts in the field, School-Based Family Counseling: An Interdisciplinary Practitioner's Guide focuses on how to make integrated School-Based Family Counseling (SBFC) interventions, with a focus on integrating schools and family interventions, in an explicit step-by-step manner.

Working in the Dark focuses on the authors' understanding of an individual's pre-suicide state of mind, based on their work with many suicidal individuals, with special attention to those who attempted suicide while in treatment.

Psychotherapists just starting out in the field often have more questions than answers: Am I really cut out for this job?

Social Work Practice with People with Dementia critically discusses the cultural and discursive contexts in which social work with dementia takes place.

Here is new information on the development of international and intercultural research on self-help groups.

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.

Wie sind Unternehmen in Caritas und Diakonie als christliche Organisationen zu erkennen?

Public health law isn't just for lawyers.

Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care provides a comprehensive overview of good practice in caring for terminally-ill children, young people and their families.

This ground-breaking book advances the fundamental debate about the nature of addiction.

Community care has long been the preferred policy for caring for dependent people.

An essential introduction to rights-based approaches in social policy, this text critically explores how social rights underpin human wellbeing.

Living with loss: From grief to wellbeing offers the latest research on adapting to and making sense of bereavement and non-death losses.

The concept of self-esteem is a fixture in the psychological and moral landscape of American society.

Concise, empowering, and inspirational, this introduction to promoting change offers practical knowledge, and features more than 150 guidelines brought to life with down-to-earth, often humorous language.

This therapist guide outlines a treatment program for couples wherein one partner has an alcohol use disorder.

When disaster strikes, our instinctive response is to make things better, not only as individuals but also as groups, organisations, communities and major institutions within society.

A landmark three-volume reference work documenting philanthropy and the nonprofit sector throughout American history, edited by the field's most widely recognized authority.

The literature on domestic violence will often treat homicide as its most extreme outcome.

Integrative psychotherapy is a groundbreaking book where the authors present mindfulness- and compassion-oriented integrative psychotherapy (MCIP) as an integration of relational psychotherapy with the practice and research of mindfulness and compassion.

Effective communication is a vital part of the social worker's job.

The popularity of using narrative, metaphor and building solutions in CBT has increased in recent years.

Take an in-depth look at what worksand what doesn'tin research with GLBT populations!

Caring for people with disabilities often becomes an all-encompassing responsibility for one or more family members.

This concise guide introduces the importance of executive function for social and emotional well-being and effective learning.

Global Perspectives on Interventions in Forensic Therapeutic Communities: A Practitioner's Guide explores the validity and effectiveness of secure settings as therapeutic communities (TCs).

This book explores contemporary debates on decolonisation and indigenisation of social work in Africa and provides readers with alternative models, values, and epistemologies for reimagining social work practice and education that can be applicable to a wide range of countries struggling with similar concerns.

Mit der Umsetzung der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention kommt der Inklusion im Förderschwerpunkt emotionale und soziale Entwicklung erhebliche Bedeutung zu.

This is an essential, practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding which supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide range of practice contexts in the UK.

This book underscores how, apart from bacteriological factors, human behavioural characteristics as well as the socio-cultural factors that affect people's lives contribute to the risk for and prevention of infection, with particular focus on malaria.

A 'tour de force' that integrates all of the major theoretical arguments and issues and empirical realities that pertain to case management and its diversity into one text that enables a reader to grasp the major aspects of case management practice.

Throughout time, people have explored the ways in which they can improve some aspect of their performance.

This bestselling book has helped thousands of people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also supported practitioners and trainee psychotherapists in their work with patients.

The Impossible Imperative brings to life the daily efforts of child welfare professionals working on behalf of vulnerable children and families.

Human Relationship Skills: Coaching and Self-Coaching presents a practical 'how to' guide to relationship skills, showing how readers can improve and, where necessary, repair relationships.

Much has been written about special education and about inclusive education, but there have been few attempts to pull these two concepts and approaches together.

College For Every Student shares best practices for raising college and career aspirations and increasing educational opportunities for underserved and diverse students in rural and urban districts.

The Art Therapist's Guide to Social Media offers the art therapy community a guide that addresses content related to social media use, its growing influence, and the impact social networking has on the profession and work of art therapists.

Researching, Reflecting and Writing about Work provides a guide to the research skills and critical thinking required to complete a research project for professional learning courses in counselling and psychotherapy.

Many societal and cultural changes have taken place over the past several decades, almost all of which have had a significant effect on the mental health professions.