Social work

Multifamily Therapy Group for Young Adults with Anorexia Nervosa describes a new and innovative family-centered outpatient Multifamily Therapy Group (MFTG) approach called Reconnecting for Recovery (R4R) for young adults with anorexia nervosa that is based on a relational reframing of eating disorders.

This newest edition of the classic book shows how anyone can align and integrate values, passions, and dreams for their communities and families into their plans.

This handbook offers a theoretical foundation for the adaptation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families.

This book provides analyses of many aspects of mother-daughter relationships, starting from the premise that daughters and mothers both take an active part in shaping their relationship.

Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies is rooted in the instability, inequality and liquidity of the post-industrial era.

More and more people are considering a career in nursing or healthcare, but the thought of undertaking an academic degree at university can be intimidating.

When Lou Henry married Herbert Hoover in February 1899, she looked forward to a partnership of equality and a life of adventure.

Ecotherapy in Practice reflects the growing interest and research in this field.

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.

Ending therapy in an appropriate and meaningful way is especially important in work with children and adolescents, yet the topic is often overlooked in clinical training.

Don't let your own reaction to stress negatively affect the children in your care!

More than 50 years ago, President Kennedy gave an address to Congress that launched the community mental health movement in the U.

Everything you always wanted to know about theories, meta-theories, methods, and interventions but didn't realize you needed to ask.

Learn to treat a variety of diagnostic disorders through various psychospiritual treatment models!

There are many different models of marriage and family therapy; the challenge for students and beginning practitioners is deciding which one best suits their individual purposes.

Narrative Therapy with Spanish Speakers provides counselors, social workers, and other mental health professionals with a variety of culturally responsive bilingual activities developed for use with clients of all ages.

Children are born into a social context that is not of their choosing.

Active killer attacks frequently dominate the headlines with stories of seemingly random mass killings in school, campus, and workplace settings.

The 1990's will be remembered in Europe as the period in which `privatization' assumed significant proportions in the field of welfare policies.

Helping Children Cope with Trauma bridges theory and practice in examining emerging approaches to enhancing resilience and treating traumatised children.

A practical guide to the challenges and successes of global fundraising, written by an international team of highly respected philanthropy professionals and edited by two of the leading nonprofit thinkers, Global Fundraising is the first book to genuinely offer a global overview of philanthropy with an internationalist perspective.

Young adult men in their late teens and early twenties are statistically the least happy of any group of males surveyed.

The process of dementia makes the experience of day-to-day living an acute challenge.

This authoritative manual presents an accessible 18-step program widely used by clinicians working with challenging teens.

The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives.

Un ouvrage en deux tomes, autonomes et complémentaires, qui tient compte de paramètres actuels comme la mutation des valeurs, le retrait de l'État-providence, la précarité de l'emploi ou la mondialisation dans l'analyse des nouvelles formes d'expression des problèmes sociaux.

Working with lesbians and gay men is a largely neglected area of social work practice.

Intended to help readers succeed in academia by increasing their scholarly productivity, this book provides strategies for getting articles published quickly in reputable research journals.

Drawing on deep reserves of experience and theoretical and research knowledge, Nancy McWilliams presents a fresh perspective on psychodynamic supervision in this highly instructive work.

First published in 1999, this volume explores how the principle of normalisation informs British learning disability services by instructing them to help service users acquire behaviours and characteristics which are as 'culturally normative as possible'.

Explores what couple and individual stories say and do not say about the child's dying and death and about parent grief.

'[This] is essential reading for all who aspire to professional practice to ensure that knowledge and skills are up to date in order to best serve their clients.

A definitive and evidence-based guide for psychologists, teachers, coaches, HR personnel and all professionals who must understand and work with dyslexic adults.

Animal-Assisted School Counseling (AASC) is a hands-on resource that provides invaluable information for school counselors interested in partnering with a therapy animal on campus to help students meet social and emotional goals.

Millions of people and their families are affected by mental illness; it causes untold pain and severely impairs their ability to function in the world.

This expertly written book provides an accessible framework for culturally competent practice with children and families in child maltreatment cases.

This title was first published in 2003.

Child maltreatment professionals from all disciplines struggle to find better ways of understanding and treating the families and children affected by maltreatment.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based communication style that has applicability to diverse professions ranging from mental and physical healthcare to criminal justice.

Real Life Heroes: Toolkit for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Families, Second Edition is an organized and easy-to-use reference for practitioners providing therapy to children and caregivers with traumatic stress.

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 Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy, Jan Jordan asks why, despite decades of feminist activism, does rape culture remain so endemic within contemporary society.

This first-of-a-kind analysis will focus exclusively on unavoidable and mandated multiple relationships between clients and psychotherapists.

Disability Management is perceived and understood to be an important approach to reducing the negative impact, for workers and the company, of absence due to illness and accidents, and to assisting those with disabilities to enter or re-enter the workplace.

The Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling is a comprehensive lexicon of existential terms, their meaning and application.

First published in 1985, this book is designed to help professionals in caring professions understand and deal with the problem of violent behaviour.

It is widely recognized that current HIV intervention models are falling short of their goals.

This book outlines the key findings from the ADVOST project and other international projects that examine how educational practitioners have utilised theoretical notions of voice and agency to enhance the social inclusion and wellbeing of children within their settings.

Interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescents (IPT-A) is a comprehensive guide for clinicians.

This user-friendly workbook provides adults with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), the tools they need to move beyond their disorder using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and it also serves as compact text for clinicians/practitioners to use with clients suffering from OCD at any point in treatment.