Social work

Discover how to better help those in your community in need of servicesCommunity Action Research comprehensively explores models for community action research, incorporating quantitative and qualitative research to highlight the advantages to community members as well as the volunteers/paraprofessionals who implement the services.

For those developing and teaching Counselor Education courses in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and School Counseling programs, this unique text will be a valuable resource.

In social sciences, education, and public health research, researchers often conduct small pilot studies (or may have planned for a larger sample but lost too many cases due to attrition or missingness), leaving them with a smaller sample than they expected and thus less power for their statistical analyses.

Spirituality, religious belief and inclusive faith communities are important for mental well being but mental health practitioners have few guidelines for acknowledging these issues when working with service users.

Emerging Perspectives in Art Therapy aims to document newly emerging trends in the field of art therapy and to offer a vision of the future practices.

Internet gambling has emerged as the most radical change to gambling in recent years.

The Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement sets issues of death and dying in a broad and holistic social context.

Most leadership development activity in health and social care has been intra-organisational or confined to a particular sector.

This book looks at innovative tools developed by Japanese and Korean researchers and practitioners to tackle cyberbullying and internet-related problems (addiction, cybercrimes, etc.

Safeguarding is a serious and complex area of social work, and demonstrating an understanding of important theory, law, policy and skills for practice is essential and it is vital that this understanding extends across the lifespan.

The growth of AIDS has focused renewed attention on the institution of prostitution.

Since the late 1960s, community work had emerged in its own right as an occupation with an increasingly important contribution to make both to ways of thinking within the field of social policy, and to day-to-day social work practice and the resolution of pressing community issues.

Stress is a fact of modern life.

Led by both children's rights perspectives and methodological arguments, there is an increasing emphasis on children and young people's participation in health and social care research by researchers, policy makers and funding bodies - with many now considering the active involvement of children and young people a requirement.

Residential treatment for children and youth (RTCY) programs not only need to be explored for the efficacy of the programs, but also in the actual assessment of various aspects of those programs.

Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy focuses on the creation of the therapist as healing presence rather than technique administrator-in other words, how to be rather than what to do.

This book is an update of Paradigms of Personality Assessment by Jerry Wiggins (2003, Guilford), a landmark volume in the personality assessment literature.

Sous l’égide de Gisèle Halimi, des Femen, d’Albertine Sarrazin, d’Aung San Suu Kyi, de Madeleine Riffaud, de Rosa Parks, et sous la présidence d’Alima Boumediene Thiéry s’est tenu en 2023 le 13e colloque de l’association Mix-Cité 45.

"e;Reading the book Spiritual Competency in Psychotherapy was like having a series of extended conversations with a good friend about what really matters in psychotherapy and life.

Learn to reach out to these hidden Christians!

Die Beiträge des Sammelbands zeigen, wie der fachwissenschaftliche und praxisrelevante Diskurs das Fachkonzept Sozialraumorientierung mittlerweile zu einer Handlungstheorie Sozialer Arbeit weiterentwickelt hat.

How to Integrate Spirituality in Psychotherapeutic Practice: Working with Spiritually Minded Clients enables mental health professionals to acquire the skills they need to diagnose and treat religious or spiritually minded clients.

Filling a vital need, this is the first comprehensive guide to supporting K12 teachers in effective implementation of classwide positive behavioral interventions and supports (CWPBIS).

How Much is Enough?

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

Voices From the Field is the book to challenge you from your cozy position of complacency!

If your son begs to stay home from school to avoid speaking in front of the class, should you be worried?

Learn the latest practicaland bisexually affirmativeapproaches to helping bisexual clientsClinical work with bisexual clients has conceptually shifted beyond the exclusive emphasis on either straight or lesbian and gay issues.

This major text addresses the relevance of sociological concepts to social work practice, arguing that lack of understanding of the ways in which social work fits into society's structures and is informed by its relationship with these can lead to impoverished social work practice.

Now updated in its second edition, Handbook of Clinical Issues in Couple Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of emerging issues that impact couple therapy.

School cyberbullying, bullying and violence have reached epidemic levels.

This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations.

This book focuses on providing information and guidance for professionals involved in the newly emerging multi-agency, interdisciplinary children's workforce.

Learn to get the most out of therapy to unlock your best self.

This unique text is both an accessible introduction and specialist review of contemporary dramatherapy practice today.

Current statistics on child abuse, neglect, poverty, and hunger shock the conscience-doubly so as societal structures set up to assist families are failing them.

Groundbreaking information for caregivers-and those receiving care It is more common now than ever before for partners, family members, and friends to provide informal care, yet caregiving in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities has received little attention.

Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care.

'Essential reading' DIVA MAGAZINE'Highly accessible and important' EUGENCE ELLIS'A deeply helpful and engaging read' MEG-JOHN BARKERProviding an accessible and authoritative introduction to issues around People of Colour (POC) trans inclusion, this book uses case studies, tips, checklists and anonymous survey results to set out best practice for any professionals working with trans people to create safer spaces, support and awareness.

This vital new book examines how healing encounters might further the horizons of practice and extend innovation in professional interpersonal relationships.

Youth civic engagement efforts have become common across the globe.

Addressing a key social policy problem, this book analyses modern voluntary organisations through the lens of a new theory of hybrid organisations, which is tested and developed in the context of a range of case studies.

A shocking reminder of the cruel history of childhood that has been largely hidden and forgotten.

Winner of the 2020 R.

Wenn die Liebe hinfälltIn eine Paartherapie kommen nicht nur rationale erwachsene Partner: innen, die miteinander ihre Probleme diskutieren und lösen.

This accessible and practical guide de-mystifies the Mental Health Tribunal for health and social care professionals.

Single-Session Therapy: Distinctive Features provides a general introduction to the field of Single-Session Therapy (SST).

In this age of accountability, and irrespective of whether they work in health-care settings or conventional mental health settings, all therapists will be increasingly expected to provide effective psychosocial treatment to individuals and families who face co-morbid medical conditions.

First published in 1993.