Social work

Learn how to make elder housing more homelike!

Why have the minutiae of how parents raise their children become routine sources of public debate and policy making?

School Social Work: National Perspectives on Practice in Schools aims to provide a contemporary understanding of school social work practice given the changing educational context.

Psychodynamic therapy has a growing evidence base, is cost-effective, and may have unique mechanisms of clinical change.

Wer systemisch arbeitet, wird sich mit der Zeit sein Handwerkszeug passend zurechtlegen.

Good Practice in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy does exactly what it promises.

Originally published in 1971, volunteers in the social services were being asked to undertake increasingly demanding and responsible work, particularly in the field of prison after-care.

First published in 1991, Truants from Life is written by three child psychiatrists, three psychologists, two psychotherapists, a social worker, a bereavement counsellor and two specialist teachers.

Across the range of social care, health and welfare professions, it is essential that students and practitioners engage meaningfully with the communities and service users they work with.

This book presents a detailed description of a new group method called Planned Group Counseling (PGC).

Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Series, includes contemporary essays on the consequences of punishment during an era of mass incarceration.

This brief is a practical reference contextualizing social casework methodology in a specifically Caribbean cultural and historical context.

This collection of field research narratives from veteran social and behavioral science researchers acknowledges the unpredictability of managing a project and candidly illustrates real-world problems and solutions.

Overcoming Teenage Low Mood and Depression: A Five Areas Approach uses the tried and tested Five Areas(TM) model of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to equip and empower young people experiencing low mood or depression with the key life skills they need to overcome these conditions.

Filling a significant gap in the cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary literature within the field of Pasifika (Polynesian) and Maori identities and mental health, this volume focuses on bridging mental health related research and practice within the indigenous communities of the South Pacific.

Communication and relationships have become an increasing focus of attention in debates about the future of health and social care.

Loneliness can be a terrible experience.

This collection featuring chapters by leading international practitioners will offer an introduction to coaching psychology for those new to it, including students, trainees, psychologists, and coaches.

Winner of the "e;Outstanding Academic Title"e; recognition by Choice for the 2020 OAT Awards.

Unique in its dual focus on emotion and lifespan development, this text weaves together theory, research, and practical clinical implications for fostering childrens emotional well-being.

The Second Edition of Social Policy and Social Change is a timely examination of the field, unique in its inclusion of both a historical analysis of problems and policy and an exploration of how capitalism and the market economy have contributed to them.

This distinctive volume examines the psychological claims of spirit possession and psychosis as they are linked to child sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and poor mental health.

Children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) frequently experience co-occurring problems with aggression, mood swings, tics, anxiety, or depression.

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.

A comprehensive guide designed to enable CBT practitioners to effectively engage people from diverse cultural backgrounds by applying culturally-sensitive therapeutic techniques Adapts core CBT techniques including reattribution, normalization, explanation development, formulating, reality testing, inference chaining and resetting expectations High profile author team includes specialists in culturally-sensitive CBT along with world-renowned pioneers in the application of CBT to serious mental illness Contains the most up-to-date research on CBT in ethnic minority groups available

Do you have clients who do not want to be helped?

The book deals with urban reactivation, a particular form of regeneration intervention which in addition to the physical-spatial dimension of the places also-and above all-considers the social and relational dynamics that the intervention is able to activate.

Mit dem Buch werden die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie vorgelegt, die mit ihrer Fragestellung Neuland betritt:Wie werden Kompetenzen und Wissen im beruflichen Alltag von SozialarbeiterInnen im Gesundheitsbereich akquiriert und erweitert, wie wird die eigene Kompetenz in der Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Berufsgruppen eingeschätzt?

Although it is a natural and inescapable part of life, death is a subject that is often neglected in psychotherapeutic literature and training.

It is essential for social work students to know about social policy, to know why studying social policy is important in the social work degree, and to understand how social policy, when implemented, has a real impact on the everyday life of vulnerable people.

Wie präsentieren Pflegeheimbewohner sich im Pflegeheim als Männer?

This handbook addresses the delivery of high quality pediatric behavioral healthcare services that are multitiered, evidence-based, and integrated, involving interprofessional collaboration across child serving systems, such as pediatrician offices and schools.

This workbook should be used alongside A Clinician's Guide to Compassion Focused Group Therapy for the Severely Mentally Ill to aid participants throughout their group journey in compassion focused therapy (CFT).

Das Buch bereitet das Unterhaltsrecht für die Soziale Arbeit verständlich auf und arbeitet dabei die Besonderheiten der jeweiligen Handlungsfelder heraus.

This book offers a comprehensive and critical account of the changes introduced into the UK youth justice system by the 1998 Crime and Disorder legislation, and its implications for youth justice managers and professionals.

Measurement refers generally to the process of assigning a numeric value to, or ordering characteristics or traits of, entities under study.

This practical, evidence-based guide provides a comprehensive introduction to the coaching of secondary school students.

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

Be proud to be a lazy radical!

Grounded in theory, research, and extensive clinical experience, this pragmatic book addresses critical questions of how change occurs in couple and family therapy and how to help clients achieve better results.

The Latino presence continues to grow in traditional population enclaves and has tripled in areas that are not traditionally associated with this pan-ethnic group.

Developed for schools exploring the use of restorative approaches to conflict resolution, this manual explains how to set up and run a restorative peer mediation programme, to provide students with the skills needed to nurture a climate of care and co-operation.

Most North American colleges have programs that help students understand the harm done to victims of sexual violence and, if prosecuted, the potential consequences of their perpetrators.

Across the social welfare and human services fields, interest is growing in how to apply research to influence policy and practice; simultaneously, with globalization's advance, it is clearer than ever that an international perspective is vital in understanding how social, political, and institutional contexts affect research and dissemination practices.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to try to answer the question of how do we, as human beings, go from the socially neutral linguistic act of discriminating external stimuli to the socially loaded act of promoting social discrimination though language?