The contributors to Grandparenting in the United States, edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer and Ynesse Abdul-Malak of Syracuse University, use a variety of quantitative and qualitative data sets to assess how grandparenting, and its impacts, vary by living arrangements, economic status, education, gender, race, ethnicity, and other stratifying variables.
The book intertwines several strands of scholarship in Indian Philosophy, contemporary psychology and the lived Indian psychological practice inclusive of Yoga, advaita, tantra and bhakti to engage in an exploration of consciousness, cognitive science and philosophy.
Many health and social care professionals today feel untrained, fearful and ill-equipped to support their disabled patients, clients and service users in their sexual lives.
This is a must-have companion for those on placement or in professional practice or indeed anyone who is being encouraged to reflect more deeply on what they do.
Social work as a profession and academic discipline has long centered women and issues of concern to women, such as reproductive rights, labor rights, equal rights, violence and poverty.
Providing a comprehensive overview of the benefits of mindfulness for children and adolescents, this edited collection offers an in-depth exploration of research, theory, and practice from international perspectives.
With overseas deployment scaling down in recent years, helping professionals need practical tools for working with servicemen and women returning from deployment.
In Resilience as a Framework for Coaching: A Cognitive Behavioural Perspective, Michael Neenan presents an in-depth understanding of resilience and shows how coaches can help their clients to develop and enhance their own resilience.
Attachment-Focused Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents brings together two powerful treatment directions that exponentially expand the knowledge and skills available to child and adolescent trauma therapists.
The first of the UN Millennium Goals was to reduce extreme poverty and in 2014 it was halved compared to 1990, and now the goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030.
Make sure your practice skills are up-to-date with the changes brought on by managed careAs a result of escalating costs, the focus of health care in the United States has shifted from inpatient, hospital-based care to outpatient care in the community.
This book presents a model of supervision that is based on both contemporary theory and research, which is strongly contextualized to child and family social work.
From foremost experts, this authoritative work offers a framework for helping children overcome obsessivecompulsive disorder (OCD) using the proven techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).
Privatisation was introduced into the probation service on the 1st June 2014 whereby work with medium and low risk offenders went to a number of private and voluntary bodies, work with high risk offenders remained with the State.
Originally published in 1970, Social Work is an introduction for students and others who are thinking of taking up social work, or who want to know what social work is.
Mentoring for Young People in Care and Leaving Care offers a rich exploration of the theory, research and practice relating to youth mentoring as a means of essential social support.
This book uses a strengths-based approach and resilience perspective to offer guidance on what works in creating effective stepfamily relationships, sharing findings and empirically supported best practices for stepfamily members and the family professionals that work with them.
In this new aggregated edition of Anissa Taun Roger's Human Behavior in the Social Environment, readers will find a comprehensive overview of the issues related to human behavior and the social environment.
In dem hitzig geführten Streit der Meinungen um das Für und Wider des Familien-Stellens nach Bert Hellinger vermag dieses nüchterne Buch wichtige sachliche Impulse zu geben.
In The Making of a Counsellor case studies illustrate work done with `impossible' clients; other essays about orphans and debtors, accountancy trainees and expatriate employees explore new ways of thinking about these groups of people.
Kuk and Banning offer readers a new lens for viewing leadership, one that goes beyond a focus on the behavior and values of leaders as individuals to examine how positional leaders interact with their environments to engage in leadership "e;in context"e;.
Dieser Tagungsband fokussiert die internationale dekoloniale Soziale Arbeit mit dem Schwerpunkt sozialer Diversität und greift Themen wie Gender-Diskussion, religiöse Pluralisierung, indigene Soziale Arbeit, Migration und Inklusion aus der Perspektive länderspezifischer Ansätze auf.
Child protection and family support is a major social issue and there is a continuing debate about how policies and practices in relation to child protection integrate with those in family support and child welfare more generally.
This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages.
Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy offers mental health professionals of all disciplines and orientations the most comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the art of integrating contemplative psychology, ethics, and practices, including mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment techniques.
A practical guide to providing home-based mental health services, Providing Home Care for Older Adults teaches readers how to handle the unique aspects of home-based care and apply and adapt evidence-based assessment and treatment within the home-based setting.
Diese kommentierte Quellensammlung eröffnet unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf einen bemerkenswerten Versuch, geänderten Bildungserfordernissen über die gedankliche Erarbeitung und die praktische Erprobung zeitgemäßer Schule gerecht zu werden.
The Routledge International Handbook of Sandplay Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of this therapeutic method, developed to provide a means of helping clients of all ages with mental suffering.
Evaluation is a large and growing field with applications to a wide range of disciplines - including sociology, social work, social policy, psychology, health, nursing, education, community development, etc.
Therapists have a unique opportunity and responsibility to provide a respectful environment for their clients, yet respect has not received adequate attention in the psychotherapy community and related research.
Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work.
This book offers speech and language therapists, and other allied health professionals, a practical resource for working in a distinctive way with children and young people, and their parents, to achieve their 'best hopes' from therapy.
