Social welfare and social services

Social Work and the Arts: Expanding Horizons is a collection of writings that explores how expressive methods are used in social work education, practice, research, and community action.

Privatization of education has become a prevalent global trend, representing a significant shift from viewing education as a public good to considering it as a private commodity.

This may be the single most important book you ever buy during your medical training.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This may be the single most important book you ever buy during your medical training.

The loss of a loved one can be very painful, with the mourner losing an important source of safety, connection, and life balance.

The loss of a loved one can be very painful, with the mourner losing an important source of safety, connection, and life balance.

What should you expect when you're expecting to foster?

This new book from life work expert Joy Rees explains the value of effective and meaningful life work with children who are fostered and adopted, and how best to carry this out.

The period following the death of a friend or loved one can be tumultuous for anyone, but can be especially difficult for children, with lasting effects if the loss is not acknowledged or supported.

Written for professionals spanning children's services, this must-read guide provides an authoritative overview of what shapes the psychological wellbeing of children and young people - from perinatal care and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) through to their socioeconomic circumstances, schools and the wider community.

Poetry is an engaging and inclusive activity for older people that can help develop memory, imagination and identity.

Exploring specific experiences, circumstances and events that can put children at risk, this book provides practical guidance for early years practitioners working with vulnerable children.

There are growing numbers of youth who identify as transgender, and as a result, clinicians and counselors are in need of an informed resource that covers the basics of gender identity and expression.

Providing a nuanced and authoritative understanding of the fields of gender variance, gender identity and gender dysphoria, this book provides the ideal starting point for the knowledge and skills that you need.

Working with older people in care can be challenging and frustrating, especially when they behave in ways that seem irrational, aggressive, or unreasonably repetitive, and nothing you can do seems to help.

Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame.

Fear of anger can ultimately be as destructive as expressed rage, fomenting social isolation, injustice, and misunderstanding.

Fear of anger can ultimately be as destructive as expressed rage, fomenting social isolation, injustice, and misunderstanding.

In the past thirty years, it has become evident that the U.

Patients in psychiatric care can behave in ways that can be alarming for staff, and difficult to respond to.

In A Genealogy of the Good and Critique of Hubris, Phillip Dybicz employs a deep historical analysis to the field of social welfare in a highly untraditional manner.

This guide to Adaptive Interaction explains how to assess the communication repertoires of people with dementia who can no longer speak, and offers practical interventions for those who wish to interact with them.

Exploring creative ways to implement solution focused practice, this book is packed full of ideas to inspire ways of working with clients which focus on their strengths as a means to finding solutions.

Theraplay(R) is an attachment-focused model of parenting that helps parents to understand and relate to their child.

In A Genealogy of the Good and Critique of Hubris, Phillip Dybicz employs a deep historical analysis to the field of social welfare in a highly untraditional manner.

With its effective outcomes, relative speed and reduced costs, the group format is becoming increasingly popular for work with children in counselling and educational settings.

Psychology and theater have often intersected in the most interesting ways to describe characters, situations, and interactions.

Psychology and theater have often intersected in the most interesting ways to describe characters, situations, and interactions.

This book is an original study of the youth organizations in London, Toronto, and Vancouver that offer creative and arts programs mainly to youth from diverse and socially marginalized backgrounds.

Nobody is coming to save us, so we will lead a revolution to save ourselves.

Dealing with a rapidly changing world is the purview of all professions.

Children's participation in child protection has become a burgeoning field of interest for scholars and practitioners in the field of social work, and yet there is no edited volume that weaves together recent international contributions on the topic.

In this ambitious book, the authors challenge mainstream economic theory by reconsidering the principle of individualism as its foundation.

Children's participation in child protection has become a burgeoning field of interest for scholars and practitioners in the field of social work, and yet there is no edited volume that weaves together recent international contributions on the topic.

134 pages, 85 images, 8 contributors

Adolescent and Adult Sexual Assault Assessment, Second Edition allows readers will have the opportunity to analyze 15 case histories of sexual assault and accompanying photographs of the patients’ physical examinations.

444 pages, 174 images, 64 contributorsThe Third Edition of Child Abuse Quick Reference is completely revised and expanded, with new and emerging science for the multidisciplinary response to child abuse.

576 pages, 170 images, 43 contributorsThis latest edition of Nursing Approach to Child Maltreatment is an invaluable resource to nurse and other professionals in a position to identify and report child maltreatment.

The Juvenile Justice Anger Management (JJAM) Treatment for Girls is a manualized anger management and aggression reduction treatment designed for adolescent girls and young women placed in residential juvenile justice facilities.

Over the last decade, many industrialized countries shifted from passive unemployment and welfare benefit regimes and traditional active labor market and social policies to activation strategies by making benefit receipt conditional upon accepting job offers or participation in active labor market schemes.

"e;We must be actively against instead of passively for sexual violence.

In this practical guide, Shannon Hodges draws on his 40 years of experience as counselor, clinical supervisor, consultant, author, and trainer in sharing information to help clinicians and clients in the healing journey of treating PTSD, anxiety, phobias, and stress.

Further serious offences committed by those released early from custody is the subject of intense media scrutiny .

This book explores how social work can navigate and shape the rapidly evolving dynamics of race, ethnicity, and culture.

577 pages, 1613 images, 22 contributors
Child Maltreatment: A Comprehensive Photographic Reference Identifying Potential Child Abuse include forensic photodocumentation from physical examinations of abused children, crime scene documentation and recreations taken by law enforcement officials, and autopsy photos demonstrating fatal physical trauma.

In Activating Youth as Change Agents: Integrating Youth Participatory Action Research in School Counseling, editors Amy L.

UN peace operations increasingly deploy police forces and engage in policing tasks.

Current knowledge about the public social welfare sphere is vast, but fragmented.

Success and promotion within Toronto's public transportation system come at a price.

Patients in psychiatric care can behave in ways that can be alarming for staff, and difficult to respond to.