Social work

This book offers a comprehensive overview of resilience across immigrant and refugee populations.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the history, definition, causes, effects, impacts and implications of climate change on young people globally, with a focus on Small Island Communities (SIDS) in particular.

This updated and expanded second edition of Resilience in Aging offers a comprehensive description of the current state of knowledge with regard to resilience from physiological (including genetic), psychological (including cognitive and creative), cultural, and economic perspectives.

A real eye-opener, this riveting anti/critical psychiatry book is comprised of original cutting-edge dialogues between Burstow (an antipsychiatry theorist and activist) and other leaders in the "e;revolt against psychiatry,"e; including radical practitioners, lawyers, reporters, activists, psychiatric survivors, academics, family members, and artists.

Entrepreneurship is the result of various contextual factors in the community, which are shaped by social challenges and business needs.

This book explores the opportunities and limitations of campus-community partnerships in Israel.

This book provides a research-based analysis of the dynamics of several types of violence in families and close relationships, as well as a discussion of theories relating to the experiences of victims.

This handbook offers a comprehensive review of the research on emotional development.

This book is the first to systematically describe the key components necessary to ensure successful implementation of Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) across mental health settings and non-mental health settings that require behavioral management.

This book is a psychobiography on the life of Viktor Frankl and a unique exploration of his life from a positive psychology perspective.

This book will advance readers' understanding of the knowledge development, building and/or management process within human service organizations, informed by the author's experience in human service organizations, as consultant, and practitioner.

This brief explores how the "e;person"e; of the therapist is developed when training and working in medical settings.

This book considers the responses of states to migrant girls who are separated from family and enter state care systems as unaccompanied or trafficked young people.

The entire world is in crisis with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and other lifetime trauma at an all-time high.

This inspiring volume presents a unique and ethical professional framework for engaging in spiritual discussion in the context of family therapy.

This book explores one of the most pressing public policy questions for the 2020s: how should we regulate cannabis?

This book explains the psychological assessment process and reviews the origins of psychological testing, referral and testing processes, and prominent psychological assessment instruments.

This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and well-being of different groups: children, young people, older adults, migrants.

This timely book presents a vital analysis of the politics, policy and practice of youth work services in England and the impacts of the austerity agenda introduced after the 2007-08 financial crisis.

This Brief discusses research about gifted education in Lebanese schools.

This book is focused on relational processes in supervision for counselling and psychotherapy.

This volume provides an understanding of how systems of child protection evolve in disparate cultural, social and economic contexts.

The book addresses the issue of disease diffusion across the geographical span of India during the colonial period.

Drawing on data from 340 municipalities in the Netherlands as well as ethnographic fieldwork, this book presents original research on neighbourhood watch groups to illustrate how their actions contribute to collective efficacy and lower crime levels.

This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children.

This handbook brings together the knowledge on juvenile imprisonment to develop a global, synthesized view of the impact of imprisonment on children and young people.

This accessible guide introduces systemic mirroring, an innovative approach to understanding and managing the disruptive presence of shame in family therapy.

This edited collection explores the concept of social entrepreneurship in sport, examining how it has been used in Swedish society to date.

This volume provides a close look at the ways in which LGBTQ2 people form familial bonds.

This volume aims to critically engage with constructs and experiences of disabled sexualities through Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

"e;If a child falls victim to a crime, or becomes witness to it, they may well be questioned by the police.

This book weaves together critical components of student development and community building for social justice to prepare students to engage effectively in community-campus partnerships for social change.

In 2008, the European Commission relaunched the policy idea of active inclusion, with the aim of facilitating the integration of people into sustainable and quality employment.

This collection presents strategies for trauma-informed teaching and learning in higher education during crisis.

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This handbook provides a comprehensive review of the numerous factors associated with treatments for children, youth, and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

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.

This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces.

This easy-access guide summarizes the dynamic specialty of rehabilitation psychology, focusing on real-world practice in the medical setting.

This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development.

This book is the seventh volume in a series covering best practices in community quality of life indicators.

This book discusses preventive actions that have led to reduction in the prevalence of child labor across the world over the 21st century.

This contributed volume reflects on the collective wisdom and ongoing efforts of the social work profession that has been in the forefront of the global pandemic of COVID-19.

"e;Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in the U.

The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique.

This book examines research using anti-oppressive, arts-based methods to promote social change  in oppressed and marginalized communities.

This book responds to the needs that arise at the intersection of people and animals, focusing on human-animal interaction, human-animal studies, the emotional work of caring for animals, and animal-assisted interventions and therapies.

This edited volume builds on existing alternative food initiatives and food movements research to explore how a systems approach can bring about health and well-being through enhanced collaboration.

This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country.

The primary goals of this brief are to invoke alertness and solidarity among the public in earthquake prone areas of India, and to empower the community to prepare themselves to face and manage the aftermath of an earthquake.