Social work

Now in a revised and expanded fifth edition that reflects current research and best practices in direct assessment and intervention, this text addresses a perennial need for school practitioners and practitioners in training.

Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories is a groundbreaking treatment resource for trauma-informed therapists who work with abused and neglected children ages nine years and older as well as their caregivers.

For over two centuries, psychopathy has stood as perhaps the most formidable risk factor for antisocial behavior, crime, and violence.

Coming at a time of renewed interest in the developmental changes of the life cycle, Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient is a rich resource that examines the impact of a spouse's death on an individual's mental health.

This book examines assessment and treatment methods for anxiety disorders in four- to- seven-year-olds.

This unique text is both an accessible introduction and specialist review of contemporary dramatherapy practice today.

Windy Dryden's pluralistic approach to coaching informs this uniquely straightforward guide to the coaching alliance.

First published in 1997, A Feminist Clinician's Guide to the Memory Debate accomplishes four goals: it publishes a range of chapters which are explicitly feminist to empower feminists, activists, practitioners, scholars, and advocates to be knowledgeable and do the most competent work possible; it helps feminist-friendly clinicians become alert as to how a feminist analysis can expand and contextualize their understanding of the recovered memory controversy; it makes proactive statements of what constitutes ethical, healing treatment for the profoundly deforming experience of child sexual abuse; and it empowers the clinician to be effectively political outside the therapy setting.

From a seasoned scholar, clinician, and teacher, this lively, highly readable text probes where the field of psychotherapy is now and where it may be headed in the future.

Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure.

School violence is a burning issue these days.

Despite handicaps of low mental ability, deprived backgrounds or psychiatric and physical disability, most married couples with disabilities manage to give and receive much personal satisfaction and pleasure in their marriages.

From texting and social networking sites to after-school activities, young people have many opportunities to interact with one another, and yet loneliness and isolation trouble today's youth in increasing numbers.

Mindful Therapeutic Care for Children is an accessible guide to using mindfulness and reflection to improve the quality of care for vulnerable children.

Jennifer Buchna untersucht in dieser qualitativen Längsschnittstudie, wie pädagogische Fachkräfte einer Grundschule Migration im Kontext ihrer Organisation und umgekehrt ihre Organisation im Kontext Migration konstituieren und welche Rolle die migrationsspezifischen institutionellen Anforderungen an Schule darin einnehmen.

Durch das neue Sozialgesetzbuch II (Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende) ist nach 2005 mit den Jobcentern ein neues Arbeitsfeld für die Soziale Arbeit entstanden.

Die Frage nach den Menschenrechten in der Pflege ist eine Frage der angewandten Ethik.

The classic edition of Rhythms of Recovery sheds light on rhythm, one of the most important components of our survival and well-being.

In recent years the popularity of service learning and study abroad programs that bring students to the global South has soared, thanks to this generation of college students' desire to make a positive difference in the world.

This book considers how rurality interacts with the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in different regional settings.

Case Studies in School Psychology is the first textbook to comprehensively introduce the NASP Practice Model through active discussion of real-life, school-based examples of issues facing school psychologists.

It is 1992, and the Burmese government's current war on its indigenous people runs into its fourth year.

The third edition of this book is an updated and expanded presentation of the widely used Integrative Developmental Model of Supervision.

This book explores how many issues related to development and governance -including migration, disaster management, environmental justice, peace and security, sustainability, public-private partnerships, and terrorism - impact the practice of social work.

When it comes to talking to children and young people about sex and relationships, it is difficult to know what to say.

The third edition of this textbook has been thoroughly revised to meet the needs of today's social work students, professionals and service managers.

Written with the practicing psychotherapist in mind, this invaluable book presents cutting-edge knowledge on adult attachment and explores the implications for day-to-day clinical practice.

This text was developed as a manual for those employed in the emergency services ESP, those who deal with victims of trauma in the workplace, work in school systems or acute psychiatric settings, provide assistance to ESP, or who are employed in other settings where persons may experience trauma.

Learning Critical Reflection documents the actual learning experiences of social work students and practitioners.

Integrating cutting-edge relational theory with technique, this volume reveals the deeply personal nature of the intersubjective process of group therapy as it affects the group therapist and other group members.

Cultivating respectful and productive academic relationships is a priority within higher education.

Featuring a wealth of clinical examples, this book facilitates implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) in a range of contexts.

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This provocative and useful volume is a step-by-step guide to assist professionals in implementing valid and useful community research and creating preventive interventions that have positive and lasting effects on the development of the community.

Through a global, multidisciplinary perspective, this book describes how four factors influence parenting practices: a countries historical and political background, the parent's educational history, the economy and the parent's financial standing, and advances in technology.

This book brings together papers by voluntary sector scholars which were specially commissioned to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the LSE's Centre for Voluntary Organisation.

Highly practical and accessible, this unique book gives therapists powerful tools for helping patients learn to cope with feared or avoided emotional experiences.

Many people agree that prayer is a central feature of spiritual life.

This book collates and analyses the current research, debates, opportunities and practices in social work field education into one volume and contextualises this material within the broader context of social work.

Sexueller Missbrauch und sexualisierte Handlungen in pädagogischen Kontexten sind nicht einfach als Perversionen Einzelner abzutun.

Youth Work Process and Practice provides an overview of the central concerns in youth work today, exploring what youth work actually consists in and developing an authentic theoretical framework for practice.

Institutional Abuse brings together a number of different research studies and accounts of institutional abuse from leading academics and researchers.

This accessible text presents a comparative analysis of health and social care policy and practice from around the world, with learning points drawn out for the UK.

Most coaches today see their role as mainly non-directive, helping to uncover their coachee's own wisdom.

This text is a step-by-step guide for students taking a first course in statistics for social work and for social work managers and practitioners who want to learn how to use Excel to solve practical statistics problems in in the workplace, whether or not they have taken a course in statistics.

This step-by-step guide to the core skills and techniques of the cognitive behaviour approach is suitable for those with little or no prior experience in CBT.