Social welfare and social services

The analysis of social and public policy and professional practice has become increasingly theoretical in recent years.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of evidence-based relationship and marriage education (RME) programs.

Still the definitive book on the subject, this volume has been thoroughly revised to cover rapidly changing aspects of the economics of aging.

This comprehensive volume brings to light little known implications of legal, economic, and custodial factors following a divorce.

First published in 1991.

This volume provides the basic psychological knowledge that is essential for social work.

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This accessible textbook on transactional analysis (TA) provides a comprehensive overview of TA theory, with a strong emphasis throughout on practical application.

Filled with current, practical, and useful information for professionals and individuals, this second edition of An ADHD Primer summarizes the literature concerning ADHD across the lifespan.

This book offers a new framework for providing psychological services in schools at the individual, group, and systemic levels.

The mental health of teachers in school is just as important as the well-being of the pupils they support.

Working with the Wealthy and Well Known takes a nuanced look at these two overlapping groups and offers evidence-based guidance for treatment plans and strategies.

Pastors and ministers have one of the most challenging jobs on earth.

This title was first published in 2001.

After reviewing related theories on stigmatisation of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), this book applies social exclusion theory, actor theory and stigma theory to the study of social mechanisms of stigmatisation of PLWHA in China to show the influence and mechanism of stigmatisation on them, and tries to construct the policy framework to tackle stigmatisation from the perspective of welfare pluralism.

Make sure your clients get the best possible care throughout their livesContemporary Issues of Care presents the latest research findings on human behavior and the social environment for social workers practicing at the individual, family, and community levels.

This is the first book to provide a multidisciplinary, critical, and global overview of evidence-based parenting education (PEd) programs.

Overcoming Teenage Low Mood and Depression: A Five Areas Approach uses the tried and tested Five Areas(TM) model of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to equip and empower young people experiencing low mood or depression with the key life skills they need to overcome these conditions.

Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare but not on how to do it.

Taking a holistic and multidisciplinary approach this book identifies and analyzes the factors which promote or discourage social inclusion of young people in today's society.

Policing and police practices have changed dramatically since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and those changes have accelerated since the summer of 2014 and the death of Michael Brown at the hands of then-police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.

This title was first published in 2000: Caring for Older People provides a unique insight into the world of community care in the 1990's.

When Love Is Not Enough relates how a multitude of factors--the competence of staff; the safety, nurturing, and protective elements of the emotional, physical, and political setting; and all overt and covert organizational dynamics--determine whether or not a treatment setting accomplishes its therapeutic aims.

This book brings together leading researchers on wellbeing science to provide a multidisciplinary approach to psychological wellbeing with implications for the interconnected societal challenges we face today, including loneliness, neoliberalism, inequality and anthropogenic climate change.

This volume is a concise, convenient, and clearly written book for those who wish to study, master, and teach the core competencies of cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Many social workers, probation officers and others in the human services are employed in positions where they deal with involuntary clients.

Trygve Johnson invites us to consider a new metaphor of identity of The Preacher as Liturgical Artist.

Adult social care was the first major social policy domain in England to be transferred from the state to the market.

Paradigms Lost challenges key paradigms currently held about the prevention or reduction of stigma attached to mental illness using evidence and the experience the authors gathered during the many years of their work in this field.

This state-of-the-art information on social groupwork with children and youth provides theoretical guidelines and suggestions for practice.

When a loved one has OCD, its a constant struggle.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Adolescents is an essential, user-friendly guide for clinicians who wish to implement DBT for adolescents into their practices.

Professional Skills for Psychology covers key professional, ethical and career development issues.

Drawing on the legacy of Paulo Freire and the insights of Antonio Gramsci, this book provides new ways of working with communities which put people at the heart of the development agenda.

In this widely used course text and practitioner resource, Froma Walsh provides a state-of-the-art framework for understanding resilience in families and how to foster it.

Emotions, rather than simply being the result of random or disordered biochemical processes, are adaptive mechanisms that are often overly relied upon as a function of basic learning processes.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of evidence-based relationship and marriage education (RME) programs.

When Cuba's centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities.

This handbook provides a meaningful overview of topical themes within family sociology as an academic field as well as empirical realities in various societal contexts across Europe.

Jana Demski untersucht in der vorliegenden Studie das Hilfeplangespräch aus der Adressat*innenperspektive.

As demand for counselling from students across Higher Education (HE) increases year on year, counselling services are continually seeking to explore creative ways of working under the pressure that results from this rise in client numbers.

Turn menopause and midlife into a positive experienceDealing with the Psychological and Spiritual Aspects of Menopause examines the emotional toll of menopause, offering help for the worry, anxiety, stress, and depression women can face during the midlife years.

Advance praise for Heart of the Storm"e;Col.

Ruben Martin is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Kent, where he was previously Director of Studies for the BA (Hons) Social Work programme for seven years.

Ein Klassiker der Psychotherapie – aktualisiert und erweitert- Ein erfolgreicher psychotherapeutischer Ansatz wurde auf den neuesten Stand gebracht- In alle Richtlinienverfahren integrierbar- Zur Teile-Therapie finden große Kongresse und Tagungen stattDie Arbeit mit Persönlichkeitsanteilen bereichert seit gut 25 Jahren den "Werkzeugkoffer" von PsychotherapeutInnen und beratenden PsychologInnen.

This book attributes American poverty to consequences 19th Century social welfare policies within an economy stretching to meet its 21st Century economic potential, arguing that American poverty persists as economic and political structures have moved into the world of fiscal planning but social welfare remains in its Depression-era structure.

This book discusses preventive actions that have led to reduction in the prevalence of child labor across the world over the 21st century.

A trusted, comprehensive resource, this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating childrens emotional reparation and recovery from trauma.

Preachers often think of prophetic preaching in the caricature of the prophet as the lonely outsider confronting the congregation, often angrily, with the congregation's complicity in social injustice and with a bracing call for repentance.