This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region's spectacular experience of economic growth in decent decades.
Das Buch ist eine Einführung in ‚Diversity Management‘ als strategisches Konzept zum Management von Verschiedenheiten und Gemeinsamkeiten, mit dem Ziel, Vielfalt in der Organisation zu fördern und für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg produktiv zu nutzen.
Comment l’autorité se manifeste-t-elle dans les pratiques de gestion de l’intervention sociale faisant l’objet de transformations autant au Québec qu’en Europe ?
This international and interdisciplinary collection argues for the use of clinical-based practices and research in social work, bringing together critical psychoanalytic ideas into social work practice to help tackle contemporary issues.
Based on the Handbook of Rehabilitation Counseling (Rigger/Maki 2004), this new volume has been completely revised and updated to accommodate the overarching changes that have recently occurred in the field.
In Using Mental Imagery to Enhance Creative and Work-Related Processes, Valerie Thomas explores the productive use of mental imagery skills to engage with the processes of creativity.
A leading professional resource and course text, this book provides practical guidance for treating clients with substance use disorders in a variety of contexts.
Published with the sponsorship of the Trainers of School Psychologists, this two volume handbook examines the essential tenets of the school psychology profession, critically reviews training and practice issues, and evaluates how the traditional and changing skills and issues translate into meeting the needs of children and the systems that serve them.
This master-class-in-a-book is designed to guide teachers of mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) in continuing to develop more competence while raising global standards of practice and pedagogy.
Coding and Documentation Compliance for the ICD and DSM provides professionals, professors, and students with a logical and practical way of understanding a difficult topic in healthcare for the clinician: coding.
Presenting best practices for assessment and intervention with older adults experiencing cognitive decline, this book draws on cutting-edge research and extensive clinical experience.
This seminal book in the literature of child protective services stimulates critical thinking and informed discussion for those professionals and educators concerned with the quality of children's protective services.
The Routledge International Handbook of Penal Abolition provides an authoritative and comprehensive look at the latest developments in the 21st-century penal abolitionism movement, both reflecting on key critical thought and setting the agenda for local and global abolitionist ideas and interventions over the coming decade.
Now in a revised and updated third edition reflecting a decade of changes in the field, this leading text prepares new practitioners to support all students academic, behavioral, and socialemotional success.
Make sure your clients get the best possible care throughout their livesContemporary Issues of Care presents the latest research findings on human behavior and the social environment for social workers practicing at the individual, family, and community levels.
Most of us find ourselves listening to other people's problems at some time or another - either our friends' or, in the course of our work, patients, pupils, clients, colleagues.
Following the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2020, and the creation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, there is increased interest in and a need to develop national human rights' bodies for children's rights.
Based on twenty years of intense qualitative research, Transcending Trauma presents an integrated model of coping and adaptation after trauma that incorporates the best of recent work in the field with the expanded insights offered by Holocaust survivors.
In An Existential Approach to Leadership Challenges, Monica Hanaway progresses us forward from a brief, introductory understanding of existential thought to considering how this approach can positively address the practical leadership challenges our twenty-first century leaders face today.
Bringing insights from linguistics to those without a background in this field, An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions enables readers to better appreciate the ways in which language functions simultaneously as an instrument to encode and communicate meaning, build and sustain interpersonal relationships, and express identity.
First published in 1999, in the light of recent moves towards deprofessionalisation and instrumentalism, Karen Lyons has conducted extensive research into the challenges facing social work training as a higher education discipline.
Theaterprojekte mit Inhaftierten sind wie eine Brücke in die Gesellschaft - sie fördern soziale und künstlerische Kompetenzen, verleihen den Teilnehmern eine Stimme und regen zu einem Perspektivwechsel diesseits und jenseits der Haftanstalten an.
Attachment: Expanding the Cultural Connections is an exciting exploration of the latest trends in the theory and application of attachment within cross-cultural settings.
In this revised edition of Strengthening the DSM, the authors use a comprehensive yet easy-to-grasp formulation of diversity and resilience to establish the most accurate diagnostic criteria for each psychiatric condition.
This book deals with key situations in social work and reflects on them from the perspective of the Gestalt approach, which has enormous potential for consulting practice.
In einer bundesweiten Untersuchung zur Offenbarungsbereitschaft nach sexualisierter Gewalt in der Kindheit wurden 58 qualitative Interviews mit Frauen und Männern geführt.
User involvement has become an important part of health policy initiatives during the last decade, but how realistic is the concept and do all users want to be involved?
Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview of international policy, legislation and offender management and treatment practice in the area of Internet child abuse.
