Social work

This book aims to explore the evidence supporting the therapeutic community (TC) modality as a uniquely effective approach to care of individuals living with opioid use disorder and other addictions, and also to identify salient mediators of improved outcome, including long-term treatment and removal from the opioid-associated environment.

The fourth edition of this textbook offers a scientific and practical context within which to understand and conduct clinical assessments of children's and adolescent's personality and behavior.

This book is a reassuring guide both for novice therapists and those further along in their journey, normalizing, validating, and empathizing with the human aspects of the profession and supporting readers to feel empowered and confident managing real-life situations with real-life clients.

This unique volume demonstrates the effectiveness of applying an evidence-based practice process to the solution of selected social problems.

In this monograph, the ethical implications of engaging in research with vulnerable populations is explored and demonstrates how Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) both enhances the research while addressing these ethical complexities.

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 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 book investigates the ways in which context shapes how cognitive challenges and strengths are navigated and how these actions impact the self-esteem of individuals with dementia and their conversational partners.

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

Drawing upon insights from feminist new materialism the book traces the complex material-discursive processes through which women's recovery from depression is enacted within a gendered biopolitics.

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.

This is the first book to explain the many synergies between solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) and harm reduction (HR).

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 title offers an in-depth analysis of the causes, consequences and treatments of illicit drug abuse.

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 book represents a simple, practical resource for all healthcare professionals working with dermatological patients with psychological aspects to their disease.

This Brief discusses research about gifted education in Lebanese schools.

Based on the lived experiences of incarcerated persons and staff, this book explores the symbolic significance of prison foodways to normalization, autonomy, identity construction, power, group formation and security.

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 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.

This volume deals with the construction of categorizations of health at work on the basis of individuals' perceptions and analyses of the psychosocial health effects at their work.

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease that manifests with a myriad of clinical and laboratory features.

This book addresses the impact of HIV on populations of men who have sex with men in Africa and local responses to the issue.

"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 edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners to consider the ways in which policing organisations approach vulnerability and the strategies they develop to reduce victims, offenders and police officers' susceptibility to increased harm.

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.