Social welfare and social services

Foster well-being in an institutional setting Human services workers are consistently discovering more about how important adult well-being is as a foundation of positive human development.

Maternity Discrimination is an ever increasingly important area of the law around the world, affecting both women and men as they juggle parenthood and the workplace.

In this persuasive study, social welfare and policy expert Paul Spicker makes a case for a relational view of poverty.

Despite their institutional preparation and lived experiences, new school social workers encounter numerous practices, political considerations, community engagement strategies, and seemingly fundamental elements involved in the learning curve needed to move from entry-level to proficiency.

The role of psychotherapists in creating change for survivors of sexual violence can extend far wider than the rooms in which appointments are provided.

The standard bearing guide for multicultural counseling courses now enhanced with research-based, topical, and pedagogical refinements Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, 7th Edition is the new update to the seminal work on multicultural counseling.

Wer Vielfalt in Innovationskraft umwandeln möchte, muss unbewusste Vorurteile und Stereotype aufdecken.

This handbook for clinicians focuses on the impact of religion and spirituality on the client, using the clinical sociological theory of identity empowerment.

Die geschlechtliche Segregation in dem frauendominierten Berufsfeld Soziale Arbeit, d.

This book examines the central structures in medicine-medical knowledge, economics, technological innovation, and medical authority-from the perspective of an ethics of care.

This book provides a comprehensive, accessible and research-informed approach to personal development issues associated with the role of a counsellor, therapist or mental health practitioner.

Trotz aktuellem Fachkräftemangel gibt es eine Vielzahl von vulnerablen Gruppen, die Schwierigkeiten am Arbeitsmarkt haben können.

Child protection and family support is a major social issue and there is a continuing debate about how policies and practices in relation to child protection integrate with those in family support and child welfare more generally.

This handbook is a comprehensive text on social work education based on the narratives of social work educators, practitioners, and researchers from Asia and the Pacific, North and South America, Australia and Oceania, and Europe.

In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force.

Group Therapy and Group Dynamic Theory offers an innovative approach to group therapy with an integrated and highly practical method.

The Grieving Child in the Classroom integrates the latest research on children's bereavement and adapts it for use in the classroom.

This book reflects the reality of most taxpayers.

Your needs as a caregiver are just as important as those your family member with Alzheimer's Disease or dementia.

How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states?

Students often experience assessment courses, and subsequently the textbooks used for the course, as a statistics-heavy class accompanied by an encyclopedia of a variety of assessments.

Public awareness of the topic of dementia is steadily increasing.

Making Education Work for the Poor identifies wealth inequality as the gravest threat to the endangered American Dream.

This book focuses on the implications of population aging in Asia.

Finalist in the Professional Books category of the 2018 Nursery World Awards.

Violence against women is a pervasive problem in society and responding appropriately to those who experience it and those who perpetrate it is a constant challenge for social work, health and related professions today.

Too often professional staff are thrust into the role of manager without preparation or subsequent guidance over what becoming a manager entails.

Social Work With Groups describes continuity and change in group work.

The compelling true story of Nelly Benatar-a hero of the anti-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed the course of history for the "e;last million"e; escaping the Second World War.

This handbook addresses behavior problems and mental health disorders in persons with intellectual disabilities.

How can we help children make a difference, allowing them to shape their communities, locally and globally?

Social construction addresses the cultural factors and social dynamics that give rise to and maintain values and beliefs.

This volume constitutes the first solidly research-grounded guide for practitioners wending their way through the new maze of self-help approaches.

This book provides a timely synthesis and discussion of recent developments in mindfulness research and practice within mental health and addiction domains.

Junge Menschen haben das Recht auf ein gesundes, gewaltfreies Aufwachsen und die bestmögliche Gesundheit (Art 24 UN-KRK), was durch das sozialstaatliche Unterstützungssystem verwirklicht werden soll.

Der Anteil hochaltriger Menschen an der Bevölkerung steigt.

Simon Cavicchia has oriented Clarkson's seminal work of Gestalt Counselling in Action within a more contemporary context, adding voices of significant and divergent thinkers as counter-point and extensions of the author's work.

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.

Principles of Medical Law is the leading practitioner text in its field.

Der Sammelband vereint eine differenzierte Auseinandersetzung zum Nexus von freiwilligem Engagement und sozialer Inklusion und zeigt auf, dass beide Phänomene in vielfältigen Interdependenzen stehen.

This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK.

First published in 1975, Daily Experience in Residential Life, based on questionnaires completed by students during their residential placements, breaks new ground with fresh implications for social work training and practice.

Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability provides the practical knowledge that professionals need in order to understand common intellectual disabilities and how they might affect parenting capability.

Originally published in 1973, The Welfare State traces the historical roots of the Welfare State and considers the problems to which it gives rise, especially in the allocation of resources.