Social work

Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective offers a clinically based framework through which adult survivors of early childhood trauma can re-engage with painful past events to create meaningful futures for themselves.

This is the first book to provide a multidisciplinary and global overview of evidence-based sexuality education (SE) programs and practices.

Learn to balance the professional demands of your ministry with your personal needsNo amount of research, study, or planning can prepare pastoral care givers for the stress placed on their personal lives by the demands of their ministries.

"e;David Jones has written a compelling book about the complex issues entailed in being family members of sufferers from mental illness.

The adult patient diagnosed with or at risk for a neurogenetic disease has many questions and concerns for the genetic counselor, the neurologist, and other practitioners.

This volume, which brings together chapters and journal articles published by renowned academic Ian Shaw, focusses on the practice/research relationship within social work - a theme that has preoccupied much of his writing over the last 40 or more years.

In a contemporary setting of increasing social division and marginalisation, Policing Hate Crime interrogates the complexities of prejudice motivated crime and effective policing practices.

This agenda setting text explores a broad range of value perspectives and their impact on and contribution to social work thinking on ethics.

Advancements in research in psychological science have afforded great insights into how our minds work.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality and Contemplative Studies provides the first authoritative overview of methodology in this growing field.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

Ce qu’on a appelé « libération sexuelle » au siècle dernier se trouve aujourd’hui de plus en plus remis en cause par des groupes de pression, des associations, des personnalités influentes, qui arguent de la nécessité de lutter conséquemment contre la pédocriminalité, l’inceste, les agressions sexuelles, voire le sexisme, pour liquider peu ou prou tout ce qui dans le domaine sexuel relèverait selon eux de l’indéfendable, de l’inadmissible et du criminalisable.

Critical Hospital Social Work Practice sheds light on the fast-paced, high pressure role of the hospital social worker.

Relating to Voices helps people who hear voices to develop a more compassionate understanding and relationship with their voices.

Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory and research into our understanding of the nature of change in child psychotherapy.

This manual for facilitators of teen grief groups and other mental health professionals, addresses the unique needs of adolescents experiencing traumatic reactions in the aftermath of violent death.

This groundbreaking volume presents a new conceptual approach to treating adults with eating disorders and their children.

Relational Ethics in Practice presents a new collection of narratives on ethics in day-to-day therapeutic practice.

This book offers a unique understanding of African American populations and their articulation of sexuality and race by introducing a comprehensive sexological model, Black Sexual Epistemology.

This book guides the reader through the international development of social work and discusses how aspects of globalisation are making it an increasingly international activity and profession.

'This is a timely and well crafted text which is to be commended, with strong chapters from knowledgeable and committed authors.

This book analyzes the impact of the U.

In dealing with individual problems and difficulties, critical social work (CSW) is an emancipatory practice which seeks to address social injustice.

Ein Klassiker der Psychotherapie – aktualisiert und erweitert- Ein erfolgreicher psychotherapeutischer Ansatz wurde auf den neuesten Stand gebracht- In alle Richtlinienverfahren integrierbar- Zur Teile-Therapie finden große Kongresse und Tagungen stattDie Arbeit mit Persönlichkeitsanteilen bereichert seit gut 25 Jahren den "Werkzeugkoffer" von PsychotherapeutInnen und beratenden PsychologInnen.

Drawing on ACT and CBT, this guide incorporates popular culture into evidence-based therapy, offering a unique approach for mental health professionals to better support clients dealing with anxiety and trauma.

This book draws on the author's professional experience and published works in the areas of leadership, philosophy, psychology and management (amongst others) to discuss the 'softer' qualities of being a good lawyer - qualities which are not taught or widely documented, such as humility, confidence, personal relationships and our dreams and vision.

This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective.

Find out how best to develop HIV prevention programs that workCommunity Collaborative Partnerships: The Foundation for HIV Prevention Research Efforts is a must read for anyone interested in developing prevention programs within high-risk urban environments.

The challenges facing military veterans who return to civilian life in the United States are persistent and well documented.

Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors.

This book provides a critical overview of the policy frameworks underpinning the contemporary practices of non-conviction information disclosure during pre-employment 'screening'.

One look inside Clinical Applications of Bowen Family Systems Theory, and you'll see that your most current clinical dilemmas are not as difficult to solve as you think.

Couples and families worldwide have a constant electronic connection to others, a fact that is influencing the concerns and issues they bring to therapy.

The aim of this book is to awaken creative desire and expand the imagination of the psychotherapist and, in turn, her patient.

Task centred social work is one of the best known and most strongly supported approaches to social work practice.

Understanding Grief is a comprehensive and accessible 'one stop' introduction to all the major models of grief.

This resource has been designed to support practitioners and caregivers with practical and creative ideas on how to use illustrated storybooks therapeutically with children.

There has been increasing attention in recent years, both positive and negative, on college student mental health and the provision of counseling services on campus.

Now in its seventh edition, this comprehensive text once again provides beginning social work students and practitioners with a proven, time-tested approach to help them understand and appreciate how to use basic evaluation techniques within their individual cases (case-level) and the programs where they work (program-level).

This book powerfully sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to protection and safeguarding designed to address the needs and behaviours of young people in their mid-teens to mid-twenties who are falling between gaps in current systems, with often devastating results.

Experiential Therapies for Treating Trauma offers 17 chapters, with 15 of them focusing on a different experiential psychotherapy for treating trauma, written by clinicians with expertise in that modality.

This hands-on volume is both manual and workbook, designed to be used alongside the Understanding Brain Injury Group.

This edited collection covers the role of the process observer - a position that enhances the effectiveness of group functioning by observing the process, summarizing the behavior of the group so that the group can learn and, if needed, improve its functioning.

Originally published in 1973, The Receiving End looks at the British welfare services for deprived children.

Following the rise of the zemiological movement, the concept of social harm has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention.

Global Leadership & Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work is a unique and personal look at coaching, leading and working internationally, bringing together inspiring, original and dramatic stories of leadership from around the world.

Hawkins and Turner argue that coaching needs to step up to deliver value to all the stakeholders of the coachee, including those they lead, colleagues, investors, customers, partners, their local community and also the wider ecology.