Social work

This exciting new book is the first of its kind to offer an analysis of Service Navigation and provide a framework for understanding the role and its application across a range of fields of practice.

This brand new text examines power and inequalities and how these are central to our understanding of how policies are made and implemented.

Practitioners working within the people professions have a legal and moral responsibility to promote equality wherever possible.

Increasingly, therapy practitioners and researchers position themselves within a pluralistic perspective that draws on the value of multiple sources of knowledge.

AACN Core Curriculum for Pediatric High Acuity, Progressive, and Critical Care, Third Edition, provides content required to deliver the best care for critically ill or injured children.

"e;I believe social work students and social workers lucky enough to stumble onto a copy of this book will hang onto it.

Americans have a fierce spirit of individualism.

Blundo and Simon have successfully outlined how a solution-focused perspective can be a powerful tool for case managers.

"e;[A] concise and detailed description of a very complex issue.

Essays exploring how reformers and charities used the "e;magic lantern"e; to raise public awareness of poverty.

Poor Joshua!

Psychological and psychotherapeutic orientations often neglect the notion that the individual is not one unit, but rather a coalition of affects.

This short, powerful work is potentially life changing, for it is filled with simple solutions to the difficult problems that confront us ?

An innovative guide for social workers who are about to take the next step in their career to become a social work manager, or who may have recently taken on that role.

Many feel that work for Christian unity or ecumenism is not especially urgent or important in the complexities of our contemporary world.

In MiniMax Interventions, Manfred Prior presents therapeutic communication strategies that are designed to achieve a lot with just a few linguistic alterations: maximum results for minimal effort.

Richard Hill and Ernest L.

The theme of Islam and Judeo-Christianity is the relationship between these three faiths under three headings that are often promoted as a basis for commonality between them (sons of Abraham, monotheism, and religions of the book).

This book will help you develop a dynamic, motivated, reliable team of volunteers for your nonprofit organization.

Pediatric nursing is the niche area of nursing where one works solely with babies, toddlers and children.

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to make placements more enjoyable and less stressful for children's nursing students.

Activity For Mental Health explores all activities, including physical, social, natural, cognitive, art/hobby and music as a means to both preventing and treating mental illness.

The mission of the Research Methodology in Strategy and Management book series is to provide a thoughtful medium to comment, critique, and build knowledge relevant to techniques that advance the strategic management field.

Once upon a time, on grounds of both religion and common sense, people assumed that the earth was flat and that the sun literally rose and set each day.

This volume in the series Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order.

A comprehensive, A-to-Z set of task planners for more than one hundred psychosocial problems from alcoholism and anxiety to domestic violence and sexual abuse.

When the Voice of Shame Is All You Hear.

This handbook provides a succinct introduction to child mental health, covering the nature, prevalence, treatment and management of mental health problems in children and young people.

Assessing risk is a key challenge in child protection work.

How can professionals work together with foster carers to create stable and therapeutic foster placements?

Most children who are fostered or adopted have some level of contact with their birth family -- whether face-to-face or by letter -- yet most of the time the psychological impact of contact on the child isn't considered.

Providing an authoritative overview of the growing phenomena of child to parent violence - a feature in the daily life of increasing numbers of families - this book outlines what we know about it, what is effective in addressing it, and outlines a proven model for intervention.

This book focuses on one of the most innovative aspects of Irish social partnership, the Community and Voluntary Pillar.

When children learn about something big and bad - even when they hear only bits and pieces - their brains get busy trying to make sense of it.

Help children aged 4-12 to understand and manage their anxiety with this easy-to-use therapeutic toolkit.

Mediation and Dispute Resolution addresses contemporary challenges and new developments in mediation.

Emetophobia can have a huge impact on daily life, from avoiding certain foods and alcohol to worrying about travel, pregnancy, hygiene and caring for loved ones when they are ill.

Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be.

This practical book covers issues related to suicide risk, prevention and postvention in Higher and Further Education communities.

"e;What makes this book special is the richness of the illustrations of how symptoms of illness embody concrete events in a family and how family constellations can bring this to light with a respect that allows symptoms to recede and disappear.

People with autism are at a higher risk of developing OCD, with research showing that up to 37% of young people with ASD also have comorbid OCD.

Anger is a natural feeling - everyone gets angry at times!

The global population is ageing rapidly yet there is a shortage of skilled professionals able to support the wellbeing of older people in care.

Expert guidance for child welfare and youth care professionals looking to increase their knowledge about, and skills in, working with transgender and gender expansive youth and their families.

Exploring clinical examples of the lived experiences of trans people across the lifespan, this unique and authoritative book addresses topics such as attending school, puberty, employment issues, suicide, bullying, autism and intersecting identities.

Lifting Our Voices is the only book to explore the dual roles of professional social workers who are also family caregivers and the only collection on caregiving in which the majority of contributors are African American.

Cool Connections is an early intervention programme for young people aged 9-14, focusing on preventing anxiety and depression.

Drawing on expertise in both expressive arts and grief counselling, this book highlights the use of expressive arts therapeutic methods in confronting and healing grief and bereavement.

Nursing success begins with the fundamentals!