Social welfare and social services

An essential desk reference for all helping professionals Social Work in Mental Health: An Evidence-Based Approach is a comprehensive and contemporary guide to the delivery of evidence-based care.

The number of older people in our society is increasing rapidly and as they age, the demand for safe, effective care is growing.

The book is based on two research projects on emergency intervention, which were carried out by the author and her colleagues.

A master class in family therapy--now updated with an additional ten years' case experience Few people have had as profound an impact on the theory and practice of family therapy as Salvador Minuchin.

Teaching Mental Health This essential inter-professional volume is aimed at those teaching or training the mental health workforce of the future.

Mental health care provision can be complex and the approach the carer uses can have a detrimental effect on the health of the person being cared for.

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This book provides practitioners with the foundations onto which they can build their own understanding and practice within housing.

This book is a collection of pointers that professionals can use in order to advise on parenting skills.

Intermediate care has become a buzzword within health and social care over the last few years.

This text will help students understand fundamental aspects of clinical practice in order to provide safe and effective care to children and their families in various situations.

Supervision is a prerequisite for all counsellors, and for most psychotherapists, yet until recently it has been assumed that any experienced counsellor or therapist could become a supervisor without any special expertise.

Social Exclusion and the Way Out focuses on the key issues which promote an understanding of the development of integrative models of care and resettlement.

According to the World Health Organization s World Health Report 2001, one family in four worldwide has at least one member currently suffering from a mental disorder.

The growing incidence of mental health problems and offending in adolescents suggests that preventive work with parents remains a critical area.

Founded in 1963, Dartington Social Research Unit conducts scientific research into child development within the context of children's services with a view to informing interventions for children in need.

This book focuses on children's journeys through the care system, from voluntary admission into care, through complicated and often long court proceedings, in pursuit of Care or Freeing Orders.

Educator Patti Lather and psychologist Chris Smithies observed and chronicled support groups for women diagnosed with HIV.

Educator Patti Lather and psychologist Chris Smithies observed and chronicled support groups for women diagnosed with HIV.

This book provides the history, theory, and practice of work discussion as developed at the Tavistock Clinic.

Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches to community mental-health which have always been strongly influenced by psychoanalysis.

With chapters written by psychoanalytic psychotherapists from across Europe, and from different analytic traditions, this book shows the common thread that weaves through these different traditions and the serious challenges facing psychotherapists dealing with the future adult generations of Europe.

Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society.

This book explores the importance of effective multi-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership work for the mental health of children and young people in care and adoption.

This book describes and analyses two dialogic network practices: 'Open Dialogues' - developed for use in psychiatric crisis situations - and 'Anticipation Dialogues' - used in less acute situations such as multi-agency muddles where the helper systems are stuck.

This book describes the development of the Child-Centred Attachment Therapy (CcAT) model of working with children with attachment difficulties.

This book provides the history, theory, and practice of work discussion as developed at the Tavistock Clinic.

Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches to community mental-health which have always been strongly influenced by psychoanalysis.

With chapters written by psychoanalytic psychotherapists from across Europe, and from different analytic traditions, this book shows the common thread that weaves through these different traditions and the serious challenges facing psychotherapists dealing with the future adult generations of Europe.

Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society.

Immer mehr Menschen erkranken an Demenz.

"Wie lässt sich verhindern, dass man sich nach zehn oder zwanzig Jahren nichts mehr zu sagen hat?

This book explores the importance of effective multi-agency and multi-disciplinary partnership work for the mental health of children and young people in care and adoption.

This book describes and analyses two dialogic network practices: 'Open Dialogues' - developed for use in psychiatric crisis situations - and 'Anticipation Dialogues' - used in less acute situations such as multi-agency muddles where the helper systems are stuck.

This book describes the development of the Child-Centred Attachment Therapy (CcAT) model of working with children with attachment difficulties.

Dramatic cases of child abuse and neglect are featured with tragic regularity in the news.

The news of teenagers and even younger children committing ever more serious and violent crimes continues to shock and baffle.

In December 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on "e;intensi?

'Like an Adam Kay for psychotherapy' - Frankie Boyle'Profound and piercing recollections' - The Sunday TimesAt the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies and Steph is coping with rejection.

Discover a thorough overview of today's social work profession with a realistic glimpse into social problems in contemporary society with Zastrow/Hessenauer's best-selling INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE: EMPOWERING PEOPLE, 13E.

Considering a career in the helping professions?

Develop original, clear interviewing skills with the hallmark microskills approach within INTENTIONAL INTERVIEWING AND COUNSELING: FACILITATING CLIENT DEVELOPMENT IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 10E.

Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how?

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing'Brilliant .

'Necessary and illuminating' Times Literary Supplement'A writer of genuine accomplishment' Good Book GuideA story of adoption and queer parenting from the award-winning author of The Spring of Kasper Meier, The Other Hoffmann Sister and An Honest ManI'm calling because we have a little boy, four weeks old, who needs a family.

From the presenter of ITV1's Long Lost Family and the bestselling author of One of the Family, comes a moving and honest book about Nicky Campbell's own search for his birth parents.

Fast fünf Millionen Menschen in Deutschland sind pflegebedürftig.

Breastfeeding and Food Policy in a Hungry World documents the proceedings of the International Conference on Human Lactation held by the New York Academy of Sciences in March 1977.

Cereals for Food and Beverages Recent Progress in Cereal Chemistry and Technology covers the proceedings of an international conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 13-17, 1979.

SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall.