Social welfare and social services

Practitioners today are confronted by a bewildering array of therapies as 'cure alls.

This book argues that the factors contributing to obesity as a product of food insecurity have risen largely from the exploitation of vulnerable communities.

For years anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive practice have been embedded in the social work landscape.

This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.

This important text promotes understanding of the complexities and diversities of African family life.

Recent Serious Case Reviews into child deaths have concluded that social workers attention is drawn away from the child by demands placed on them by the adults, organisational structures and systems.

Integrative Therapy is a unifying approach that brings together physiological, affective, cognitive, contextual and behavioural systems, creating a multi-dimensional relational framework that can be created anew for each individual case.

Falling somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 'Youth' is a key period of transition.

When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures introduces several new ideas about trauma and trauma treatment.

This handy book is a one-stop introduction to research and evaluation for social workers.

The Needs ABC Therapeutic Model for Couples and Families: A Guide for Practitioners shows readers how to successfully tailor a therapeutic approach to meet the needs of couples and families.

A fun, streamlined way to learn the major concepts and theories of critical care nursing - and how to apply them to real-world patient situationsValuable to professional nurses who wants to transition into critical care nursing or students seeking to excel in their advanced studies, Critical Care Nursing Demystified, Second Edition is the book they need to quickly and easily understand the key concepts and advanced trends of this specialty.

An expert guide to the complex, yet vital transition from student to employed nursing practitionerThe transition from nursing school graduate to professional nursing practitioner can be stressful and confusing.

This thematically structured text offers an ideal introduction to the positive and negative effects of globalization on human welfare in industrial and developing societies.

Most of us find ourselves listening to other people's problems at some time or another - either our friends' or, in the course of our work, patients, pupils, clients, colleagues.

Communication is the basis of so much of what happens in the workplace and indeed in our private lives.

Be proud to be a lazy radical!

This major reference work breaks new ground as an electronic resource for students, educators, researchers, and professionals.

A practical guide to advise Baby Boomers how to deal with the daunting task of facing a parents' eventual passing as it relates to residential contents, heirlooms, and the often difficult family interactions and feuds that accompany them.

Uncle Sam's Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poorand what Americans must do to stop it.

In this book the author attempts to explain how to master one of the most difficult skills in psychotherapy: the art of listening.

A young mother suspected of abusing her toddler, a severely behavior-disordered teenager who faces expulsion from his community residence, a depressed and illiterate homeless man who fears psychiatric evaluation.

'The third in a series explicating the criminal mind, this volume summarizes observations, interpretations, and conclusions derived from a study of 121 criminal men who used drugs and/or alcohol to excess.

The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot be explained by sociologic or psychologic explanations alone.

Calling on a decade of participant observation at a residence for mentally retarded adults, anthropologist Michael V.

Now in a significantly revised sixth edition with 70% new material, this comprehensive handbook has introduced tens of thousands of practitioners and students to the leading forms of couple therapy practiced today.

Autism is a complex multifaceted disorder affecting neurodevelopment during the early years of life and, for many, throughout the life span.

This book examines ten key issues-poverty, housing, taxation and the economy, child welfare, education, health, criminal justice, civil rights, and global issues-confronting social work professionals and places them in their larger context.

This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind.

Community service and learning experiences are booming as we enter the 21st century.

False charges of racial profiling threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last decade, especially in America's inner cities.

System Kids considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves.

Jacqueline Morineau a introduit la médiation pénale en France à la demande de Robert Badinter, alors ministre de la Justice en 1983.

The Health of Staff in Hospitals aims to provide some help and guidance to nurses, doctors and hospital administrators who are concerned with improving or creating staff health departments.

After directing the organization NGOabroad: International Careers and Volunteering for 20 years, the author wrote this guidebook to help both prospective and active social and humanitarian workers pursue their careers in international development.

Dilemmas and Decision Making in Social Work is a collection of stories to help social workers work with dilemmas, weigh up options and make good decisions.

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s.

Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) is now recognized as one of the most common forms of dementia in individuals under age 65, second only to Alzheimer's.

Evaluation of Quality of Care in Psychiatry covers the proceedings of the symposium on Quality of Care in Psychiatry.

In its updated and expanded second edition, this helpful guide offers a wealth of information for people living with HIV and for people caring for HIV-positive loved ones.

As World War II drew to a close, America's premier fire apparatus builder--the American-LaFrance Foamite Corp.

Adult Protective Services (APS) is the social service system charged with aiding older people and disabled adults who are being mistreated by others or cannot meet their own basic needs for health and safety (self-neglect).

This thrilling story memorializes one of the most dangerous--and successful--series of undercover operations conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Millions of people experience symptoms of central sensitization (CS) and central sensitivity syndromes (CSS) such as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivities.

There are more senior citizens in the U.

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At a time when mass shootings in schools and other public spaces have become commonplace, it might seem surprising that American college campuses are not magnets for murderers but sanctuaries from them.

Ethnic Factors in Health and Disease discusses ethnicity from a medical perspective.

Judith Love Schwab had many duties as an international volunteer, but some of the most memorable were following meerkats in the Kalahari Desert, collecting data on early gardens and buildings for archaeologists on Easter Island, helping care for underserved babies in Romania, teaching English in Poland, sifting for bones and shells in Portugal and working with severely disabled adults at an institution in Greece.