Social work

Psychotherapists are increasingly expected to incorporate the spiritual as well as the psychological dimension in their professional work.

Are you troubled by hearing voices or seeing visions that others do not?

Attachment: Expanding the Cultural Connections is an exciting exploration of the latest trends in the theory and application of attachment within cross-cultural settings.

Black Lives Are Beautiful is a workbook explicitly designed to help members of the Black community counter the impacts of racialized trauma while also cultivating self-esteem, building resilience, fostering community, and promoting Black empowerment.

In Very Brief Cognitive Behavioural Coaching Windy Dryden presents VBCBC: a unique approach to coaching from a cognitive behavioural perspective which takes place over the course of one to three sessions.

Where did professional social work originate from?

There is a tendency to assume that teams will naturally know how to self-organise and optimise their collective talents.

Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors offers inspiring, hopeful, creative resources for the millions of male and female adolescents and adults who struggle with eating disorders, addictions, any form of self-mutilation.

Written specifically for students on counselling and psychotherapy courses, this book gives an overview of the profession from its early beginnings in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis through the development of the different schools and approaches of talking therapies including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural and person-centred approaches.

Although mindfulness can be located in a number of different traditions and disciplines, it was originally an esoteric and powerful practice based on developing a capacity attainable only by certain people.

Many health and social care professionals today feel untrained, fearful and ill-equipped to support their disabled patients, clients and service users in their sexual lives.

Single Session Thinking and Practice teaches readers how to implement single session approaches by encouraging practitioners and clients to collaborate in making the most of every encounter.

Building Strong Communities is an introductory textbook that contains practical tools, down-to-earth frameworks and useful methods, a valuable resource for working with communities.

Is residential care 'inherently harmful'?

Critical Service Learning Toolkit offers a strengths-based, interdisciplinary approach to promoting social competence while enhancing emotional and academic skill development.

Arme, Kranke, Kriminelle, Behinderte oder hilfsbedürftige Familien stellen Kategorien der Betroffenheit von soziale Problemen dar, mit denen jeweils bestimmte Institutionen der Problemarbeit und der sozialen Kontrolle verbunden sind.

Juvenile Delinquency, Eleventh Edition, discusses delinquency as it relates to and emerges from the youths family, neighborhood, school, peer group, social class, and overall cultural and social environment.

This book sheds light on the communication of social support, language use, and therapeutic effects in the context of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression.

Combining psychology and spirituality, this practical book considers archetypes from Asian, Middle Eastern and European myths and explains how they can be used in therapeutic practice to help clients achieve personal or clinical goals.

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.

The social development approach seeks to integrate economic and social policies within a dynamic development process in order to achieve social welfare objectives.

Violence in its various forms is a concern for social work in all fields of action.

Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Menschen mit den Merkmalen Behinderung und Migrationshintergrund droht doppelte Diskriminierung.

Das Handbuch bündelt alle wichtigen aktuellen Themen- und Arbeitsfelder in der psychosozialen Versorgung geflüchteter Menschen: von stationären Behandlungskonzepten über diagnostisches Fallverstehen bis zu Social Trauma.

From Every Child Matters and the Munro Review, to changing shifts in thinking from Coalition government; the child protection system has seen dramatic political and policy developments over recent years.

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Providing tools to enhance treatment of any clinical problem, this book shows how integrating motivational interviewing (MI) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) can lead to better client outcomes than using either approach on its own.

In the years since it was first published, The Reality Game has become a classic text.

In recent years, resilience has become a near ubiquitous cultural phenomenon whose influence extends into many fields of academic enquiry.

This book examines the challenges in developmental assessment of infants and toddlers and provides best practices for implementing standardized assessments in early intervention settings.

An invaluable resource for social work students, educators and practitioners, written by an author team with extensive professional experience.

This book traces the journey of Mahatma Gandhi, from being a simple and truth-seeking human being, a satyarthi, to a committed, conscious and social human being, a satyagrahi.

Die Jugend – deren Gewalttätigkeit – in der Großstadt.

Effektive Lösung konkreter Probleme und Konflikte von Klienten ist das zentrale Ziel Sozialer Arbeit.

In den letzten Jahren ist ein regelrechter Gründungsboom von Infrastruktureinrichtungen für bürgerschaftliches Engagement zu verzeichnen.

In an era of globalization characterized by widespread migration and cultural contacts, psychologists, counselors, and other mental health professionals face a unique challenge: how does one practice successfully when working with clients from so many different backgrounds?

Do you want to understand how best to embrace the challenges, surprises, and successes of research?

This book explores how neoliberalism and austerity have affected older people living within a deindustrialised town, utilising a Foucauldian approach and an ethnographic methodology.

The most rapid and significant phase of development occurs in the first three years of a child's life.

This fully updated fourth edition of Children in Difficulty explores some of the most common, yet incapacitating, difficulties often encountered by young children and adolescents.

Coming Out, Coming In: Nurturing the Well-Being and Inclusion of Gay Youth in Mainstream Society describes the process of "e;coming in"e; to a welcoming and nurturing family, from both the teen's and the parents' perspective.

First published in 1995.

Fairness of wage distribution - or the perception of such - is a phenomenon crucial for the stability of new democracies.

Learning Disabilities raises issues which are of crucial importance to all health care professionals and students who work with people with a learning disability.

Inequalities in educational opportunity have been a persistent feature of all school systems for generations, with conventional explanations of differences in educational attainment tending to be reduced to either quantitative or non-quantitative 'list' theories.

School social work enters its second century as a profession still conflicted about its central mission.