Social work

Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to the thinking and practice of this exciting approach, which enables people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively.

Trauma-Informed Music Therapy is a timely volume that combines theoretical perspectives on trauma-informed practice with real-life applications in music therapy practice.

The Social Worker Speaks charts the motivations, work activities and attitudes of social workers across the country from 1904 to 1989.

The homeless person is thought to be different.

Critical testing information and key clinical protocols in the palm of your handMcGraw-Hill's Manual of Laboratory & Diagnostic Tests focuses specifically on what you need to know to understand the test, educate the patient, and provide safe, effective care before, during, and after the test.

Suicidal Behaviour: Underlying dynamics is a wide ranging collection of articles that builds upon an earlier volume by the same editor (Suicidal Behaviour: Assessment of people-at-risk, 2010) and delves deeper into the dynamics of suicide by synthesizing significant psychological and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The move to multidisciplinary teams in primary care and the emphasis on joined-up working across the human services make it increasingly necessary for health and social care professionals to take on a variety of leadership roles in teams made up of people from different professional backgrounds.

Dual Pandemics: Creating Racially Just Responses to a Changing Environment through Research, Practice and Education commits to promoting and disseminating knowledge that calls for the dismantling of systemic racism and creating racially just responses to the dual pandemics.

Human trafficking is a thriving business around the world.

Learn the public health implications of shifting drug-related risks among the inner city poorInner city drug use behavior shifts and changes, leaving past drug treatment programs, drug prevention efforts, health care provisions for drug users, and social service practice unprepared to effectively respond.

Dubbed “the little French Bill Gates” in his native country, Alexandre Mars quit the startups that made him rich, transforming himself from entrepreneur to philanthropist.

First published in 2002.

How can you make necessary professional judgments without being judgmental?

This manual provides clinicians with guidance to conduct compassion focused group therapy with patients suffering from severe forms of mental illness.

Managed care is rapidly making traditional marketing strategies for mental health services obsolete.

The fourth edition of this textbook offers a scientific and practical context within which to understand and conduct clinical assessments of children's and adolescent's personality and behavior.

Give Sorrow Words gives an overview of children's attitudes toward death and considers the moral and ethical issues raised by treatments for life-threatening illnesses in children.

Humanistic Sandtray Therapy: The Definitive Guide to Philosophy, Therapeutic Conditions, and the Real Relationship provides a comprehensive exploration of the underlying theory, necessary skills, and practical applications behind Humanistic Sandtray Therapy (HST) based on a person-centered gestalt model.

Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship is the newest incarnation of Garry Landreth's comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play.

This step-by-step guidebook offers a range of contemporary and popular brief treatments, suitable for a range of client groups and professional settings.

How can someone determine whether to implement an evidence-supported intervention?

Chaplaincy for a Plural World provides a theoretical foundation for an inclusive understanding of chaplaincy and lays out key chaplaincy methods for providing spiritual care in a modern context.

Bring your students the latest developments in community organization!

The SAGE Handbook of Coaching presents a comprehensive, global view of the discipline, identifying the current issues and practices, as well as mapping out where the discipline is going.

This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - those which perpetuate human privilege and human exceptionalism.

In this third edition of Poetry Therapy, Dr.

The use of violence within relationships, families or communities is a major public health issue across the world.

Building upon the author's integrative and interactive ideas about human services fields, this book presents an intercultural perspective of social work education, practice, and research with culturally-linguistically-relationally underprivileged minority groups in the local and global communities, to show how the synthesis of theories from postmodern social constructionism, multiculturalism, and international organization empowerment can be applied when working with Asian immigrant families.

The human-animal bond may be described as a dynamic, mutually beneficial relationship between people and the animals they care for.

An exploration of the newfound connections between mental illness and trauma For decades, the idea that serious mental illnesses (SMIs) are almost exclusively biologically-based and must be treated pharmacologically has been commonplace in psychology literature.

Entrepreneurship is the result of various contextual factors in the community, which are shaped by social challenges and business needs.

This study was conceived in the winter of 1984, in response to the profession's efforts to achieve counselor licensure.

This fully updated Reader provides a comprehensive review of recent research and legislation relating to domestic violence and its consequences for children, and identifies the implications for practice.

When an individual or couple is considering a difficult choice such as IVF treatment or third party assisted conception, the moral and ethical basis for their decisions may often be informed by their particular faith traditions.

This book will enlarge our grasp of global migration phenomena, offering insights into the fascinating, at times startling, realities of human migration in Asia.

Grounded in current knowledge about bipolar disorder and its treatment, this book presents an empirically supported therapy program with step-by-step guidelines for implementation.

This book provides pertinent and practical information about how to create, work, and thrive in an Integrated Care (IC) setting.

Family estrangement and the stigma attached to it are complex phenomena affecting a great number of people in various ways.

With 75% new material, the fully revised third edition of this clinical reference and text describes ways to integrate motivational interviewing (MI) into evidence-based psychotherapy and counseling.

Chronic pain has a multitude of causes, many of which are not well understood or effectively treated by medical therapies.

Are you a social work student looking to understand how the law, ethics and social policy interrelate in practice?

Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children details the application of IFS in child psychotherapy.

Social Services for Senior Gay Men and Lesbians is an important new reference that provides those in the helping professions with practical information on how to work with the older gay and lesbian population.

Reflects ASWB's revised 2018 test blueprint used for test construction.

Multicultural Counseling and Psychotherapy, 6th ed, offers counseling students and professionals a distinctive lifespan approach that emphasizes the importance of social justice and diversity in mental health practice.

This book systematically reviews the experiences and problems encountered in the development of China's rural areas over the past three decades since the start of the country's economic reform.

The Invisible Brain Injury recounts, in her own words, the experience of Aurora Lassaletta, a clinical psychologist who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a traffic accident.

Public and academic interest in youth and community violence has grown with school shootings, horrific cases of child abuse, and reports of domestic abuse becoming regular news features.