This book explores the discrepancies among what protections Title IX provides to pregnant and parenting students, what colleges communicate, and what pregnant and parenting students actually experience.
This volume synthesizes cutting-edge research on natural processes of resilience and recovery, highlighting implications for trauma treatment and prevention.
Endangered Private Practice explains how health care reform, driven by the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010, affects and will be affecting those providers within the delivery system section of health care.
The recent review of the Diploma in Social Work highlighted the fact that children and young people who are in care have less successsful records of educational achievement than their peers.
This edited book gives voice to previously unheard narratives on wellbeing in higher education and provides novel implications for higher education policy and practice.
Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience.
This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region's spectacular experience of economic growth in decent decades.
When social workers draw on experience, theory, or data in order to develop new strategies or enhance existing ones, they are conducting intervention research.
Today's high recidivism rates, combined with the rising costs of jails and prisons, are increasingly seen as problems that must be addressed on both moral and financial grounds.
This book provides a rich synthesis of research and theory of nascent and emergent critically engaged work examining changing welfare structures, regimes and technologies and the social suffering that is generated in everyday lives.
Using Social Emotional Learning to Prevent School Violence is an essential resource that seeks to close the existing gap in literature on ways to mitigate school violence, as well as to advocate for the integration of social emotional learning in schools.
This book highlights current knowledge, best practices, new opportunities, and difficult challenges associated with promoting emotional intelligence (EI) and social-emotional learning (SEL) in educational settings.
While promoting access to resources and systems of support for those affected by gender-based violence is absolutely crucial, this new book focuses attention on the important question of how communities can take action to prevent violence and abuse.
An effective coach can help the business leader make sense of the challenges and complexities of modern international business, unlocking the potential of both leader and organization.
The second edition of this handbook incorporates the latest theory, research, and best practices in serving gifted and talented children and adolescents.
Get a detailed overview of the social services provided for HIV-infected midlife and older adults, and find out where social work practice with this growing population is headed!
Arbeitsvermittlungsorganisationen, öffentliche wie private, agieren seit knapp zwei Jahrzehnten vor dem Hintergrund eines dominanten Aktivierungsparadigmas, das die unbedingte Arbeitsmarktintegration zentral stellt.
This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families.
This insightful book offers an authoritative yet accessible introduction to the development of visual abilities and motor skills in infants and children.
In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic marginalisation, cultural devaluation and political disempowerment.
School Counselling in an Asian Cultural Context focuses on the ways in which cultural setting influences the practice of school counseling, its effectiveness, and the experience of young people as they engage in counseling in schools.
Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents offers mental health professionals an integration of creative and playful approaches and solution-focused therapy.
When domestic abuse and children are involved, divorce and custody can be the epitome of high-stakes conflict and frustration and all too frequently protective parents lose custody of their child to a named abuser.
School Counseling and the Student Athlete explores empirical, theoretical, and practice-based issues that demand consideration by school-based counseling and educational professionals working at the pre-collegiate level.
Vorwort Vorwort Im Hinblick auf die „allenthalben diffuse Diskussion um die wissenschaftlichen und theoretischen Kerngedanken sowie um das begriffliche und funktionale Selbstverständnis der Sozialpädagogik/Sozialarbeit“ (Schmidt 1981, III) hat Hans- Ludwig Schmidt in seiner Dissertation den Versuch unternommen, unterschied- che sozialpädagogische Entwürfe und Konzepte unter wissenschaftstheoretischen Aspekten und nach eigenen kritischen Überlegungen zu systematisieren.
Clinical Disorders of Social Cognition provides contemporary neuroscientific theories of social cognition in a wide range of conditions across the lifespan.
Produced in conjunction with Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect), Australia's largest provider of services with people on the autism spectrum, this new text explores the experiences, needs and aspirations of adults on the spectrum.
