Social work

This book provides a comprehensive approach to the perspectives, lived experiences, and socio-cultural beliefs of Indigenous scholars regarding disabilities through a distinctions-based approach.

Social work with vulnerable adults is becoming increasingly centred on a key piece of legislation: the Mental Capacity Act.

Explore the cultural, familial, and community resilience and protective factors that are available to different youth populations in the U.

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What does it mean to practice youth work ethically?

Modern society is beset by a vast range of problems - such as poverty, homelessness and terrorism - that cause immense suffering for a significant number of people.

Examining and exploring new approaches to therapeutic observation in health and social care, this multidisciplinary guide discusses and analyses its uses in a range of practical contexts with children, families and adults.

Finally, a practical guide to mixed methods research has been written with health and human services professionals in mind.

Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents proposes an entirely unique approach to the field of gerontology, giving dependent care receivers a voice.

Families today often face a range of urgent problems, and practitioners need to intervene with the most effective methods possible, methods which have been tested and that have proven clinical utility.

This best-selling book explores the crucial role of social workers in securing a better future for vulnerable and disadvantaged adult service users.

Organized around the theme of child well-being, this book provides an overview of child welfare's past and present with consideration of its future.

The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas.

This unique and easy-to-use book offers a new paradigm to NGO managers in effecting policy change.

Based on culture-related themes derived from the author's psychotherapeutic work with young Chinese-American professionals, this important book relates personal problems and conditions to specific sources in Chinese and American cultures and the immigration experience.

Interpersonal violence has many faces and many names - domestic violence, child abuse, school bullying.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

Theraplay(R) is an attachment-focused model of parenting that helps parents to understand and relate to their child.

In addition to education and health care, many welfare activities are undertaken by the State.

Vor geraumer Zeit blätterte ich in einem Fachbuch, das sich mit Sozialer Arbeit im Handlungsfeld „Psychische Erkrankungen“ auseinandersetzte.

Navigating Life Transitions for Meaning explores the central human motivation of meaning making, and its counterpart, meaning disruption.

Feminist critiques of the social sciences are based on the assumption that because the social sciences were developed for the most part by white, middle-class, Western men, the perspectives of women were ignored.

This first-of-its-kind textbook surveys rehabilitation and vocational programs aiding persons with disabilities in remote and developing areas in the U.

After graduating, students in social work are faced with the daunting and stressful decision of choosing their specialty from the many that are available to them.

This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept.

This much-needed volume gives clinicians essential strategies for managing the complexities of bipolar disorder and tailoring treatment to each patients changing needs.

The study of 'risk' in social work involves complex interplay between human behaviour, emotion, evidence of fact, professional values and organisational systems.

One of Canada’s first social workers, Jane B.

This book offers a critical and empirical examination of gang life, using an intersectional framework considering race, class, gender, and other characteristics.

This new fourth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry is the essential, evidence-based companion to all aspects of psychiatry, from diagnosis and conducting a clinical interview to management by subspecialty.

Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of 'prison ecologies' - a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a 'product' of human, environment (social and physical), systemic, and societal influences - and how an ecological approach is helpful to prevention efforts.

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today.

Introduces a Powerful New Brief Therapy ApproachThis groundbreaking book is the first to provide a comprehensive model for effectively blending the two main postmodern brief therapy approaches: solution-focused and narrative therapies.

This fully-updated and revised third edition addresses the changes to law and practice in relation to adoption and permanency, the children's hearing system and the implications of the provisions of the Children and Young People (S) Act 2014 and other related matters, including the National Practice Model of GIRFEC.

This stimulating resource presents the Looming Vulnerability Model, a nuanced take on the cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of anxiety, worry, and other responses to real or imagined threat.

The use of the arts in psychotherapy is a burgeoning area of interest, particularly in the field of bereavement, where it is a staple intervention in hospice programs, children's grief camps, specialized programs for trauma or combat exposure, work with bereaved parents, widowed elders or suicide survivors, and in many other contexts.

Effective interventions for alcohol problems that devastate familiesAn individual's alcohol abuse can devastate the rest of his or her family in various ways.

Das Thema Wohnen prägt aktuell die Debatten in Politik und Stadtplanung.

Reimagining Narrative Therapy Through Practice Stories and Autoethnography takes a new pedagogical approach to teaching and learning in contemporary narrative therapy, based in autoethnography and storytelling.

Die vierte industrielle Revolution wird das allgemeingültige Verständnis von Arbeit neu definieren.

Psychosoziale Beratung umfasst jede professionell-unterstützende Form der Interaktion mit Klientinnen und Klienten in psychosozialen Arbeitsfeldern.

Case management is used across a diverse range of organisational settings, from child protection to aged care; disability services; acute and community health; courts and correctional services; employment services; veteran services; education; and immigration programs.

Originally published in 1971, this title describes a series of studies dealing with the upbringing of children in residential institutions.

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care.

Faith-Based ACT for Christian Clients balances empirical evidence with theology to give mental health professionals a deep understanding of both the "e;why"e; and "e;how"e; of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for Christians.