Social work

Disability and Impairment introduces professionals working with families to the everyday issues faced by disabled people of all ages in family life.

Over the past decade, several major natural disasters have had devastating impacts throughout the United States and the world.

Very stimulating and intellectually exciting.

Using a diverse set of successful alternative programs as case examples, professionals who have been involved directly in the organization and development of alternative social programs explain the complicated process of planning and implementing new agencies.

This book will help students develop their understanding of how the internet is impacting on social work education and practice in 21st century.

First published in 1999, this second edition of Values in Social Work has been extensively revised from the first edition, incorporating new case study material and extended areas of analysis.

Examine a meaningful, integrated, systemic, and pragmatic view of hospital ministry!

Professional Behaviors and Dispositions teaches counselors in training (CITs) how to cultivate counselor competencies and critical thinking skills in support of lifelong professional development.

The Awakened Therapist is an accessible introduction to gestalt therapy through the lens of transpersonal counseling, one that offers a clear and profound account of how to bridge the gap between traditional counseling and spiritual transformation.

Today, in a period of economic crisis, public sector cuts and escalating class struggle, Marxism offers important tools for social workers and service users to understand the structures of oppression they face and devise effective means of resistance.

This seminal textbook on Gestalt therapy refreshes the theory of Gestalt therapy revisiting its European roots.

This book tackles the challenges that arise from infidelity by helping couples heal through the initial experiences of discovery, providing tools to help partners disclose the details of the affair, manage triggering experiences and obtain forgiveness and reconciliation.

Learning about Learning Disabilities, Fourth Edition continues to provide equal attention to the intellectual, conceptual, and practical aspects of learning disabilities.

Mick Cooper and John McLeod pioneer a major new framework for counselling theory, practice and research - the 'pluralistic' approach.

This textbook addresses existing gaps in police research, education, and training, and provides guidance on how to respond to and address the vulnerability that arises in policing practice.

"e;This book describes violence risk assessment in both juveniles and adults, incorporating dynamic and static factors, along with treatment alternativesO.

Now fully updated and with up-to-the-minute guidance, this is the only book you will need to make sense of the key elements of law involved in social work with children and families in England and Wales.

The Heart of Coaching Supervision takes us on a journey that starts with understanding who we are, and why we do what we do the way we do it, so that we can help those we work with understand themselves and their practice.

Written by experienced coaching supervisors, this book offers a kaleidoscope of wisdom drawn from a complex professional field.

The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s.

Valuable contributions on different aspects of sexual and reproductive health among young people are presented in this book, with a focus on developing country contexts.

A practical approach to understanding social work concepts in action that integrates theory and practice In this updated edition of the classic social work text, students and instructors have access to real-world demonstrations of how social work theories and concepts can be applied in practice.

Anstaltsskandale, revoltierende Zöglinge sowie die drei großen Fürsorgeprozesse waren Ausdruck der Krise der Fürsorgeerziehung Ende der 1920er Jahre.

Comprehensive in its coverage, the text examines the core areas of childcare practice, considering the various strengths and weaknesses of both policy and practice.

This one-of-a-kind theoretical and practical workbook provides couples with tools to work towards healing their relationships and experiences of trauma.

Designed for psychotherapists and counsellors in training, An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame clarifies the concept of the frame - the way of working set out in the first meeting between therapist and client.

A primary role of student affairs professionals is to help college students dealing with developmental transitions and coping with emotional difficulties.

The Handbook of Women, Stress and Trauma focuses on the stresses and traumas that are unique to the lives of women.

With a focus on skills development, this book provides guidance on how to navigate transitions between career stages in higher education and how to maintain wellbeing in the process.

This third edition of a popular text introduces healthcare students and professionals to a wide range of health beliefs and practices in world religions.

Counselling psychology, a rapidly expanding mental health discipline, is rooted in academic psychology and therefore has unique potential of develop and sustain a powerful model for the integration of research and practice.

This practical guide provides support for mental health practitioners as they develop their approach to clinical supervision, drawing on the authors' extensive experience of counseling and psychotherapy to bring readers into the "e;real world"e; of clinical supervision.

Formal education has finally ended, you've passed your exams and you're getting started as a newly qualified social worker (NQSW).

This is the first textbook to offer a clear, concise articulation of the dimensions of constructivism relevant to social work practice and research.

Stigma leads to poorer health.

This comprehensive guide covers all aspects of action learning, one of the most widely used development methods in health, social and community care.

This best-selling, practical, evidence-based guide to the cognitive behavioural approach takes you step-by-step through the process of counselling, from initial contact with the client to termination and follow up.

Die meisten von Gewalt betroffenen Frauen verfügen wider Erwarten über vielfältige soziale Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten.

Offering a concrete framework and practical methods for working from an existential perspective, the bestselling Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy is now in its third edition.

This book examines and analyses the experiences of older people as both victims and perpetrators of crime.

This practical, evidence-based guide provides a comprehensive introduction to the coaching of secondary school students.

Originally published in 1979, this successor volume to Dorothy Pettes' earlier Supervision in Social Work volume aimed to provide supervisors and team leaders with the information they needed to function more effectively as either staff or student supervisors in both individual and group supervision.

This fully updated fourth edition of Children in Difficulty explores some of the most common, yet incapacitating, difficulties often encountered by young children and adolescents.

Nutrition and Lifestyle in Neurological Autoimmune Diseases: Multiple Sclerosis discusses important discoveries relating to the types of, and efficacy of, nutritional and lifestyle responses to symptoms and reoccurrence of MS.

This book critically analyzes both the negative and positive impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, focusing on changes in families, gender developments, and the evolution of social inequality structures.

This collection of David H.