Social welfare and social services

Winner of the 2011 AASECT Book Award!

Das Buch befasst sich mit dem ressourcenorientierten Pflegekonzept der Aktivierend-therapeutischen Pflege, das geriatrische Patientinnen und Patienten bei ihrer Alltags- und Lebensgestaltung unterstützt.

In this book, Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson turn their well-polished therapy microscopes onto the subjects of lying, falsehood, deceit, and the loss of trust in the counseling room.

Written by a collection of experts in the field, this important new text provides a critical and constructive analysis of the ways in which service users and carers engage with health and social care services.

This book uses a case study of a low-cost home ownership initiative at the margins of renting and owning provided by social landlords - known as shared ownership - to challenge everyday assumptions held about the 'social' and the 'legal' in property.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to existential psychotherapy.

A shocking reminder of the cruel history of childhood that has been largely hidden and forgotten.

Building on the concept of Transpersonal Leadership, Leading Beyond the Ego offers a practical approach to becoming an authentic, ethical, caring and more effective leader.

This wide-ranging and accessible survey of poverty in America examines every important facet of the issue, from historical and socioeconomic contributors to poverty to programs, policies, and ideas crafted to reduce income inequality and poverty across the USA.

How much is acceptable to consume?

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health considers the role of forgiveness in mental life, concerning both forgiving and being forgiven.

This book draws together writers from various backgrounds to discuss issues that affect those working in rural social work settings, on themes ranging from current issues that are common to rural localities (including those arising from the Covid-19 pandemic) to future challenges.

Why are Americans so bad at marriage?

This handbook explains the science behind nutrition and its effects on mental health, in a clear, accessible way.

Demenz ist eine neurologische Erkrankung mit einschneidenden sozialen Folgen.

Nurses, midwives and health visitors have a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.

Listening to the bereaved-really listening-brings into sharp focus two things: their pain and their questions.

This book is a distinctive collection of narratives of female Solution Focused practitioners, from across six continents, sharing their unique ways of using the approach at personal, professional, and social levels.

'"e;I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush.

Bringing insights from linguistics to those without a background in this field, An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions enables readers to better appreciate the ways in which language functions simultaneously as an instrument to encode and communicate meaning, build and sustain interpersonal relationships, and express identity.

La capacité à vivre les sentiments et la sexualité donne sa coloration à l'existence, participe au plaisir, au désir de vivre, et contribue à la socialisation et à la richesse du langage.

This book explores key issues on the relational and operational dimension of the professional actions aimed at ensuring the well-being and inclusion of migrants in the reception system.

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SSCS0208 - ATENCIÓN SOCIOSANITARIA A PERSONAS DEPENDIENTES EN INSTITUCIONES SOCIALES".

This book analyzes racism in Communist and post-Communist contexts, examining the 'Red' promise of an end to racism and the racial logics at work in the Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, Cuba and China, placing these in the context of global racialization.

Investigating Child Exploitation and Pornography provides the historical, legal, technical, and social background for the laws prohibiting child exploitation, in particular, child pornography.

Die Auseinandersetzung mit pflegerischen, medizinischen und sozialen Versorgungsstrukturen für Menschen, die aufgrund ihrer körperlichen und seelischen Konstitution bei der Alltags- und Lebensbewältigung vor besonderen Herausforderungen stehen, hat unmittelbaren Einfluss auf deren Lebensqualität, ihr Wohlbefinden und die Chancengleichheit.

This practical guide shows practicing psychotherapists and other helping professionals how to make the healing benefits of psychodynamic ';talk therapy' available to any client, including those limited in available sessions by insurance, financial restrictions, or agency policy.

This contributed volume offers a comprehensive and multifaceted understanding of the current forensic innovation, landscape, enablers, road blockers, and barriers to implementation.

What if your new client, a man in his early 40s, cannot answer basic questions in your initial assessment interview?

Bringing contemporary couple therapy to life, this casebook candidly illustrates the whats, whys, and how-tos of leading clinical approaches.

How and why does restorative practice (RP) work?

Kollegiale Beratung spielt in der Sozialen Arbeit eine bedeutsame Rolle.

Managers and professionals involved in implementing change, whether it is a strategic change initiative or operational adjustments to day to day practice, this practical resource is to be used as a guide to understanding some aspects of the change process, from a preliminary assessment of the need for change, through to implementation and evaluation.

The Managing Stress Practice Manual, 2nd ed, provides the ideal stress management tool for practitioners across the public sector and professionals at all levels in business and management.

Attempted suicide began to increase inexorably in western societies following World War II.

This book explores the alleged uniqueness of the European experience, and investigates its ties to a long history of LGBT and queer movements in the region.

With unparalleled access to some of the world's most reflective and thoughtful philanthropists, this book explores the philanthropic journeys of 48 high net worth individuals (HNWIs) and ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) to uncover the person behind the giving.

Features ASWB test-taking strategies and in-depth rationales for every question!

This is the only advanced practice guide to provide an overview of the major DSM-5 disorders across the lifespan and complete clinical guidelines for their psychopharmacologic management.

Kinship care is one of the most prevalent forms of placement used for maltreated children and youths.

Originally published in 1967, Social Policy and the Young Delinquent is an account of a process: of the way in which the treatment of the child delinquent has developed from the days when a boy of nine could be sentenced to be hanged for stealing two penny worth of paint (though the sentence, imposed in 1833, was not actually carried out) to the controversies of the time concerning the desirability of replacing the legalistic and penal framework of the services for young offenders by a service more appropriate to their educational and social needs.

This book is a series of twelve profound conversations with some of the foremost elder changemakers in the fields of aging and longevity, and it captures the essence of their wisdom and perspectives.

My Tree Had No Leaves is the true story of an adoptee's struggle to find his true self.

This book investigates public medical insurance reform in China and studies its effects from both institutional and empirical study perspectives.

This book examines how fifty police officers in South Australia keep well and "e;bounce back"e; from duty-related traumatic experience in the absence of practical, accessible and timely organisational support.