Social work

This unique resource helps therapists build their skills in schema therapy (ST) by applying ST techniques to themselves and reflecting on the experience.

In the late 1960s the child care service had undergone considerable change, and was to change again after the Seebohm Committee had reported.

Social Work Live accesses multiple approaches to student learning: experiential, visual, and auditory.

Here is an indispensable book highlighting information on the problem of child sexual abuse for anyone concerned with the welfare of young children.

In this practical companion to the client manual, Windy Dryden draws on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) - an approach that focuses on identifying, examining and changing the rigid/extreme attitudes that largely determine emotional and behavioural issues - to encourage people to deal with their emotional problems.

This book presents a new model for conceptualizing and applying a social and cognitive perspective on therapeutic practice.

O'Brien and O'Brien and their collection of international contributors introduce the historical and current theory and practice of Corporate Analytical Psychology.

Now significantly revised with over 70% new material, this is the authoritative presentation of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, which is taught and practiced around the world.

Interrupting Racism provides school counselors with a brief overview of racial equity in schools and practical ideas that a school-level practitioner can put into action.

Published with the sponsorship of the Trainers of School Psychologists, this two volume handbook examines the essential tenets of the school psychology profession, critically reviews training and practice issues, and evaluates how traditional and changing skills and issues translate into meeting the needs of children and the systems that serve them.

Provide the most effective service possible to help victims of this growing social problemElder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date research on elder abuse and neglect.

Rural Education and Queer Identities: Rural and (Out)Rooted explores the facets and intersections of rural education and Queer identities.

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and England.

Healing the Heart and Mind with Mindfulness is a practical book that provides strategies using mindfulness to manage stress, anxiety and depression, as well as ways to cultivate psychological wellbeing.

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques presents 100 main features of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) to help therapists improve their practice.

This practical bestseller from leading expert Richard Nelson-Jones introduces the essential counselling skills for the helping professions.

Young children can erupt like little volcanoes when they are feeling angry.

Fostering is vitally important: the majority of looked after children are fostered, yet these children are often left out of the agenda and their voices are not heard.

Risk-Takers gives a comprehensive view of youthful involvement with drinking, smoking, drug use and sex.

The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance.

This book critically examines the psychology of gambling in Hong Kong and Macao.

Wherever contemporary therapists offer treatment, whether in social agencies or clinics, in outpatient or inpatient services, or even in private practice, they are likely to find themselves increasingly working with people whose histories are characterized by deprivation and repeated trauma-experiences that have left them feeling damaged, often short of basic trust in others, and lacking confidence in themselves.

Countertransference and the Therapist's Inner Experience explores the inner world of the psychotherapist and its influences on the relationship between psychotherapist and patient.

How common is child sexual abuse?

A Counseling Primer, second edition, introduces students to the profession of counseling, reviews its training curriculum, discusses current professional standards, and presents basic counseling skills.

Bridging the gap between spirituality and the recovering community, Rising from the Dead: Stories of Women's Spiritual Journeys to Sobriety tells the stories of alcoholic women in long-term sobriety whose faith-based rehabilitation healed and transformed their lives.

Use Frankl's insights and techniques to improve life for your aging clients or parishioners.

There are many different models of marriage and family therapy; the challenge for students and beginning practitioners is deciding which one best suits their individual purposes.

The aim of this book is to awaken creative desire and expand the imagination of the psychotherapist and, in turn, her patient.

Dans un contexte où l’éducation inclusive est affichée comme une priorité mondiale, les pratiques de formation, éducatives ou managériales révèlent un écart parfois saisissant entre les idéaux et les réalités.

In The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents, 2nd ed, you'll find the most powerful tools available for aiding children with their feelings, incorporating play techniques into therapy, encouraging appropriate parental involvement in family sessions, and providing group therapy to children.

Critical thinking values, skills, and knowledge are integral to evidence-based practice in the helping professions.

Some outstanding contributions to a better understanding of the issues of education for social work have been brought together in this volume, originally published in 1968.

Social Policy for Social Work provides a comprehensive, critical and engaging introduction to social policy for students and practitioners of social work.

Ce qu’on a appelé « libération sexuelle » au siècle dernier se trouve aujourd’hui de plus en plus remis en cause par des groupes de pression, des associations, des personnalités influentes, qui arguent de la nécessité de lutter conséquemment contre la pédocriminalité, l’inceste, les agressions sexuelles, voire le sexisme, pour liquider peu ou prou tout ce qui dans le domaine sexuel relèverait selon eux de l’indéfendable, de l’inadmissible et du criminalisable.

Society holds a popular perception that links children in public care with criminal activity, but this connection is largely assumed.

There are far more qualified counsellors and therapists than there are salaried posts, so many recently qualified practitioners face the challenges of working freelance.

Public awareness regarding the life-threatening nature and intense traumatic impact of domestic violence has substantially increased in the past decade.

This new edition provides essential reading on crisis intervention for social workers, mental health nurses and other human services practitioners and managers.

Le changement constant des formes de vie et de travail, l’évolution économique et le progrès technique entraînent de nouveaux défis pour la sécurité sociale : les lacunes concrètes sur le plan des prestations, l’administration et le financement du système à long terme, la possibilité même de financer.

Help children aged 4-12 to understand and manage their anxiety with this easy-to-use therapeutic toolkit.

This book takes a strengths-based approach to focus on different aspects of mental health.

Written for staff in schools and colleges, this book offers the challenge and support necessary to understand, analyze and adopt coaching, mentoring and peer-networking mechanisms as an essential part of the development of professional learning within an organisation.

This new book takes a detailed look at different disciplines as they relate to prevention.

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across 19 countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimisation, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices.

Through the author's experiences, investigations and discussions with artists, art therapists and inmates from around the world, Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity comprehensively explores the efficacy, methods, and outcomes of art and art therapy within correctional settings.