Social welfare and social services

This book addresses water privatization from a historical-sociological perspective and argues against the unrelenting imposition of neoprivatist water politics worldwide.

This is the first comprehensive volume to bridge the gap between the science of behavior and applied behavior analysis (ABA).

Quality supervision assists in quality service provision.

Trustworthy modern doctors, after considering the observations supported by experiments, stated that sleep is an innate nature in humans, and they likened this innate nature to food, saying: A person can abstain from food or sleep for several days, a maximum of which does not exceed twenty, although among the poor of India there are those who continue for more than That, but they are a rare few who cannot be reckoned with.

Dans un contexte tout à fait singulier, l’Université de l’Uélé (Isiro, RD Congo) s’est distinguée dans l’accompagnement du développement de toute une région.

This book explores social entrepreneurship in art therapy through case studies presented by contributing authors, highlighting the work of art therapists who have used innovative and collaborative approaches to increase access to art therapy services and promote system-level changes within the communities and institutions where they practice.

Face detection and recognition are the nonintrusive biometrics of choice in many security applications.

Humanistic Sandtray Therapy: The Definitive Guide to Philosophy, Therapeutic Conditions, and the Real Relationship provides a comprehensive exploration of the underlying theory, necessary skills, and practical applications behind Humanistic Sandtray Therapy (HST) based on a person-centered gestalt model.

This book explores the ethics around everything connected with setting up and running a therapy private practice.

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.

Pflegediagnostik ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil pflegerischer Arbeit.

This book focuses on how to provide social work services for elderly people living in poverty.

This book focuses on how to provide social work services for elderly people living in poverty.

In a rapidly evolving world where technology is increasingly integrated into our daily lives, security has become a top priority for individuals, organizations, and governments.

Originally published in 1977, this lively collection of papers by women involved in community work and community action explores some of the links between the women's movements and community action at the time, in terms both of the recent developments in women's thinking and of their practical experience of involvement in community organizations and groups.

This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which it does by explaining the saying 'a person is a person through other persons'.

Chris Heitzmans innovative book looks beyond the first principles of business and considers ways you may not have thought of to build on the basics to elevate your performance from merely good to the next level.

Four factors are rapidly converging into a "e;silver tsunami"e; that will soon challenge every aspect of American society: 1) the increasing number of people living with dementias; 2) the mounting number of people providing dementia care, whether they want to or not; 3) the spiraling healthcare costs of dementia care; and 4) the lack of geriatricians to provide medical care and oversight.

All parents agree that they want their children to have a happy childhood and a healthy upbringing.

This book problematises and then reshapes critical social work to bring a range of perspectives to what constitutes truly effective and ethical social work practice, moving beyond binary oppositions (where two states or concepts are defined as opposite to each other) to create new words and concepts to be inclusive of a range of identities, practice contexts, and groups or communities of service users.

Drawing on examples from clinical practice, this book presents evidence based psychological principles in an applied context to support effective practice in the helping professions.

As integrating spiritual concerns becomes commonplace in psychotherapy, this new edition of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy leads the way in describing and illustrating its effective clinical practice from the first through to the last session.

This book, which is aimed at the health care and social work/care field, looks at the relationship between different levels of research projects.

There has been a rebirth of interest in bringing community back into social work, but what does community social work mean when applied to practice?

This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focusing on youth gang activity.

A ';riveting, deeply compassionate' (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.

The COVID-19 pandemic radically altered the everyday worlds of children, young people and families.

The revolutionary book that has helped hundreds of thousands of readers find relief from chronic unhappiness is now in a revised and updated second edition.

This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism.

This unique text aims to cover the many variations of presentations that a mental health professional needs to address in order to conduct effective work with sex offenders and alleged offenders, their victims, as well as their families and children.

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

What does it mean to be 'vulnerable'?

Jede Kultur kennt Kinderverse.

La creación, por iniciativa del padre Jofré, del primer hospital de Europa para enfermos mentales, el Spital dels Ignoscents, es uno de los mitos más arraigados de la Valencia bajomedieval.

The Phenomenology of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood provides an ethical, social, and psychological investigation of the process of becoming a mother.

C’est la Sicile qui la voit naître dans l’ombre silencieuse de cette vieille bâtisse encerclée par le soleil et les oliviers.

In einer immer komplexeren und hochdynamischen Welt, in der ständig neue und kompliziertere Anforderungen an die Einsatzkräfte der Gefahrenabwehr gestellt werden, nimmt das Thema der Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung eine absolut zentrale Rolle ein.

Wie ein kräftiger Sturm wirbelt die Diagnose Demenz das Leben der Betroffenen, aber auch ihrer Familien durcheinander.

This book draws on the author's professional experience and published works in the areas of leadership, philosophy, psychology and management (amongst others) to discuss the 'softer' qualities of being a good lawyer - qualities which are not taught or widely documented, such as humility, confidence, personal relationships and our dreams and vision.

This innovative work tells the story of a unique partnership between a state prison administration and a team of incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, artists, and students known as The WoW Collective due to their joint efforts in developing a peer mentoring program called "e;Women's Words/Women's Worlds (WoW).

Our knowledge and awareness of mental health has never been greater.

Die reformierte Grundordnung des kirchlichen Dienstes (GrO) vom 22.