Social work

This text is the first to provide a contextual understanding of the clinical issues that affect men and masculinity across a wide range of cultural and national settings.

Public speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art.

This publication titled, ';Social Research' provides readers with an introduction to social research.

Therapists intuitively know that the families, partnerships, and individuals they treat have strengths, but may not know how to identify or utilize them.

India's unique caste system continues to play a critical role in social relationships.

This work is designed to bring together encyclopaedic information on social work.

This publication provides readers with an introduction to social and psychosocial development.

Originally published in 1969, Sallie Trotter was the first woman social worker ever appointed in Britain to work inside an all-male prison - Wandsworth, in fact - with more freedom than had hitherto been offered to anyone not strictly of the prison staff.

How can philosophy guide our understanding of and approach to counseling ethics and techniques?

Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation.

This book explores the potential of Creative Coproduction as a recovery tool for severe mental disorder, using case study examples of service users with anorexia nervosa.

The book offers a comprehensive introduction to the field with a unique focus on the diverse groups to whom social workers provide services.

This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century.

Social work has its roots in the struggle of society to deal with poverty and the resultant problems.

This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress.

A comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary readings in the sociology of health.

This handbook presents an overview of studies on the relationship of active ageing and quality of life.

Whilst there are many texts that introduce trainees to the overarching theory, formulations, and interventions used in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), few describe the lived experience of being a CBT therapist and of making it through training.

The second edition of this handbook examines family life, health, and educational issues that often arise for the millions of children in the United States whose parents are in prison or jail.

This work is designed to bring together encyclopaedic information on social work.

Day-to-day tasks include goal setting, resource acquisition, problem solving, negotiation, team and coalition building, information management, assessment, and quality control.

The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children's views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it.

This volume covers the range of reactions that both patients and clients have to the circumstance of a child entering the therapist's family.

Counselling psychologists can play a fundamental and inspiring role in people's lives.

This fully updated third edition of Substance Abuse and the Family demonstrates what it means to view addiction through a systems lens by considering biology and genetics, family relationships, and larger systems.

The very notions of childhood and youth are intimately connected to contemporary norms, practices and spaces of care, caring and care-giving.

This text offers a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of globalisation, their impact on social work and the resulting challenges in practice.

Social work has its roots in the struggle of society to deal with poverty and the resultant problems.

Les interventions présentées dans ce livre se référent toutes à la sociopsychanalyse (et à l'oeuvre de Gérard Mendel) et s'appuient sur un dispositif unique (Dispositif Institutionnel Mendel).

Facilitated by developments in technologies, the non-consensual posting of sexually explicit images of someone else for revenge, entertainment or political motive - so-called revenge porn - has become a global phenomenon.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been extensively researched and shown to be solidly underpinned by evidence.

This book examines disability in post-war Sierra Leone.

Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes provides: an in-depth examination of death attitudes, existentialism, and spirituality and their relationships; a review of the major theoretical models; clinical applications of these models to issues such as infertility, bereavement, anxiety, and suicide; and an introduction to meaning managemen

This handbook addresses behavior problems and mental health disorders in persons with intellectual disabilities.

With lengthy waiting lists, reduced resources and demands for more clearly defined performance outcomes, more and more counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists are finding themselves under pressure to provide short-term treatment for their patients.

This book weaves together service users' lived experiences of mental health recovery and ideas about how creative activities such as art, music, and creative reading and writing can promote it, particularly within social and community settings.

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment.

Dieses Manual wurde speziell für die Leitung von Stressmanagement-Gruppen entwickelt.

This book adds to global knowledge of pathways out of crime (desistance) by exploring the desistance narratives of 15 women with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand (10 of whom identify as Maori, New Zealand's Indigenous population).

Le travail est source de vie, de développement et de culture, mais également vecteur d'usure, voire de mort prématurée.

The finding that working memory training can increase fluid intelligence triggered a great number of cognitive training studies, the results of which have been fiercely debated among experts.

Relata la historia de algunas mujeres que resistieron, fueron desplazadas y empezaron de nuevo, que amenazaron y llegaron a ciudades con sus familias, que se hicieron lideresas buscando las huellas de su destino y siguen buscando su país desaparecido

When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process?

Workouts for Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy is a companion to Stepping into Emotionally Focused Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change (2nd ed.

La loi de mars 2007 réformant la protection de l'enfance, confirmée par celle de mars 2016, a mis au coeur de son dispositif la notion d'intérêt de l'enfant.

This book should be read by everyone working in a helping profession.

This textbook aims to educate students across all mental health disciplines on the importance of using strengths-based resilience as a tool when working with military families.

Today, most substance abuse treatment is administered by community-based organizations.

Today, most substance abuse treatment is administered by community-based organizations.