Social welfare and social services

In Missing Us: Re-Visioning Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Community, Ryan LaMothe questions the ways in which psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theorists and clinicians have historically relied principally on a two-person psychology to understand psychosocial development and practice.

Why do most people never have sex with close relatives?

Print version of the book includes free access to the app (web, iOS, and Android), which offers interactive Q&A review plus the entire text of the print book!

Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations.

Praise for the first edition "e;Finally, a social work practice text that makes a difference!

Person-Centred Teams provides much-needed guidance on person-centred working following the roll out of personalisation and personal budgets across health and social care.

The Neglected Childprovides everything educators and caregivers need to know to identify and intervene in neglectful situations, while also creating a safe, nurturing, and protective environment for young children.

This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts.

A New Era in U.

This practical handbook will empower activity coordinators and carers to run safe, rewarding and health-giving dance and movement sessions with older people, including with those who are frail, who have limited mobility or who are living with dementia.

To competently serve families, social work students must understand the theories and issues surrounding family violence.

The challenging teen years can be even more difficult for adopted teenagers, many of whom have unanswered questions that may result in fear, anger, and low self-esteem.

What is Solution-Focused Therapy?

This state-of-the-art textbook illustrates paradigms for professional practice, provides an overview of current knowledge and future trends in rehabilitation counseling, and aims to stimulate thinking that will lead to new research initiatives.

This volume of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics helps readers see the local problem and concern of aging as a global epidemic affecting all areas of the health care workplace.

This timely resource is the first handbook to give nurse practitioners guidance to prescribe, monitor, assess, educate, and advocate for patients taking psychiatric medications and promote safe practice outcomes.

Suicide is an event that cannot be ignored, minimized, or left untreated.

As a supervisor, how do you best support growth, learning and improved practice?

In second edition, social work and mental health students and practitioners across the full spectrum of social service settings gain essential knowledge into cutting edge issues in the assessment and treatment of families from diverse cultural backgrounds.

For anyone who has ever cared for a person with Alzheimer's, coping with the emotional, financial, and day-to-day issues can be grueling.

This book provides a theory-to-practice breakdown of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and what its implications are for health and social care workers.

Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity.

Updated and revised, this text advocates a proactive stance for health care social workers.

Presenting an empowerment-oriented management approach, this ground-breaking how-to guide covers the most recent innovations and current theories you need to create a successful social service organization.

Exploring concepts of ageing, personhood, capacity, liberty, best interests and the nature and ethics of palliative care, this book will help those in the caring professions to understand and engage with the thoughts and arguments underpinning the experience of dementia and dementia care.

Now fully revised and updated, See You in Court is an accessible guide for social workers on being a witness in care proceedings.

Communication skills are fundamental to effective social work practice.

Placing the experiences of victims at its heart, this book provides an authoritative overview of disability hate crime - explaining what it is, how it happens, its legal status, the impact on victims and how individuals and agencies should respond.

A sensitive picture book to help ease the anxieties of foster children aged 4 to 10 entering placement.

This book should be read by research students, early career researchers, social work practitioners as well as doctoral supervisors new to IPA, who will all find it helpful and insightful.

Just because children have been fostered or adopted, it doesn't mean they can't grow up to be happy, healthy and successful.

A Stirring Memoir on Parenthood and the Invisible Threads that Bind Us to Those We Are Meant to Love The obstacles, surprises, and moments of grace that Jennifer Grant experienced, working through the adoption process to bring home her daughter from Guatemala, forever changed her life.

In Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform.

Featuring a spectrum of families from diverse backgrounds, this book reveals the joys and challenges of adoptive and foster parenting.

Addressing the fact that under-representation has been a concern for medical educators, medical councils, and the government for some time, this book presents the first evidence-based monograph for pedagogies that can be applied to all aspects of widening participation, tackling chronic under-representation in medical settings.

Jungian Counseling and Play Therapy is both an introduction to Jung's theory and a practical guide to Jungian-informed practice.

This book provides an overview of China's distinctive community governance, examining its 2000-year history and describing its recent development under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

Emergencies wreak havoc on businesses and governments on a daily basis.

Hiring highly qualified people is crucial to every company, and Background Screening and Investigations is an essential guide to succeeding in a turbulent business environment.

The first book to tell the whole story of SNAP and to explain why all Americans should support it.

Transforming Teen Behavior: Parent-Teen Protocols for Psychosocial Skills Training is a clinician's guide for treating teens exhibiting emotional and behavioral disturbances.

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery.

This book presents a critical chronology of the modern slavery survivor journey in the UK, from intervention by the authorities to long-term recovery.

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Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques believably answers the question, How do you know when someone is lying?

Prepare for Your Police Officer Exam with Top Experts in the Field-and Join America's Finest!

International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc.

In a context of increased politicization led by state and federal policymakers, corporate reformers, and for-profit educational organizations, The Politics of Education Policy in an Era of Inequality explores a new vision for leading schools grounded in culturally relevant advocacy and social justice theories.

This comprehensive overview of research and clinical practice in PTSD includes new insights into assessment with regard to DSM-5 and ICD-11, discussion of ongoing controversies in the field as to what constitutes safe and effective care, and new research as to assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of PTSD.

This authoritative book serves as an invaluable resource for policy advocates, program planners, and service delivery agents.