Social services and welfare, criminology

Domestic violence experienced in childhood continues to have an enduring emotional impact into adulthood.

Breaking new ground in the areas of attachment and child development, Sue Jennings introduces the concept of 'Neuro-Dramatic-Play' exploring the sensory experiences that take place between mother and child during pregnancy and the first few months after birth.

This accessible guide to Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), an effective therapeutic approach which focuses on strengths and achievements, provides a practical introduction to what SFBT is and how to use it with clients.

Across Europe young people in public care are around five times less likely to attend tertiary education than those who have not been in care.

Children deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them?

Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma is a practical, introductory guide to counselling survivors of child abuse, neglect, rape, sexual violence, sexual trafficking, religious sexual abuse, and domestic abuse.

More than any other challenging behaviour, the sexual abuse of one child by another generates anxiety, puzzlement and confusion.

Psychiatry in Prisons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, problems and development of psychiatric health care in prisons, focusing particularly on the UK.

Child protection systems differ across the four countries of the United Kingdom, and understanding the differences provide important opportunities for learning and improving day-to-day practice.

This book chronicles gang and gangster history using profiles to tell the rise of the gangster and history of crime in Miami.

In the 1980s, a multi-million dollar drug distribution and contract murder syndicate led by murderous gangsters Johnny Attais rose to prominence in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan.

Less obvious than perhaps Al Capone, but perhaps even more vicious are the names of John Mushmouth Johnson, Jeff Fort and Larry Hoover from the Chicago underworld.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAs seen on This MorningBack in the day, I was Governor of Security and Operations for HMP Wormwood Scrubs.

'There's water in the engine,' he said.

Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the illness.

Poetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing.

Parents, teachers and other professionals often struggle to know how to deal with disruptive, abusive or aggressive behaviour.

Child Protection and Child Welfare draws on the knowledge of child protection experts and social care professionals to provide an authoritative international overview of child protection strategy and policy.

Child well-being, which covers everything from family relationships to their material well-being, is now increasingly being talked about in policy and practice nationally and internationally.

After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old.

The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept remains ambiguous.

A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together.

This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children.

In this century the central and quintessential correctional facility program ought to be the library.

This textbook features a groundbreaking collection of chapters co-written by Aboriginal authors.

Latinos in the U.

This is the third edition of Barbara Bassot's hugely popular book, a uniquely inspiring introduction to critically reflective practice.

This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children.

Success for Modern Day Relationships: Working with Dating, Engaged, and Married Couples by Barbara R.

The Disappearing Male by Joan Lachkar, PhD, provides a psychoanalytic/psychodynamic description of eight different kinds of men who "e;disappear"e; from relationships without warning or explanation.

In Philosophy's Role in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Peter Raabe argues that philosophy is an effective method in treating mental illness.

Supervision has been a major component of initial training and an important element for professional development in the very wide field of mental healthcare.

This new textbook offers a systematic introduction to a wide array of cybercrimes, exploring their diversity and the range of possible responses to them.

In Relating to God: Clinical Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Theism, Dan Merkur conceptualizes religious discourse within psychoanalysis.

Psychotherapy in the Wake of War presents the ways in which differing views of various psychoanalytic schools and traditions-spanning developments for more than one hundred years-may affect theoretical and technical issues in psychoanalytic treatments.

Working to safeguard adults is a complex area of practice that requires careful balancing of autonomy, protection and risk.

The scope of this research focuses on a sample of undergraduate university students who attended the Westchester campuses of Pace University in New York to determine the relative significance of ethnicity in the educational and professional options perceived by Italian-American vs.

Social work law is at the foundation of all social work practice, from shaping professional boundaries to determining the level of intervention.

Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the U.

From three leading authorities in the field, this re-visit to a classic text demonstrates how groupwork can be used as a flexible tool for service user empowerment and participation across a range of contexts.

Social workers often have to handle a great deal of negativity in their working lives.

Gun Violence In American Society: Crime, Justice, and Public Policy provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary investigation into one of society's major social, public health and political concerns-death, injury, and destruction from the use of firearms.

The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions.

A glimpse into the extraordinary world of ambulance driving from the man behind the wheel.

This new edition has been updated to reflect recent shifts in community and social care whilst still providing the authoritative account of its historical development.

Introducing key psychodynamic theory, concepts and techniques, this text examines the challenges and opportunities of counselling adolescents and children.

A contemporary reflection on current practice, this book gets to the heart of what 'youth work' is about.

Building upon the author's integrative and interactive ideas about human services fields, this book presents an intercultural perspective of social work education, practice, and research with culturally-linguistically-relationally underprivileged minority groups in the local and global communities, to show how the synthesis of theories from postmodern social constructionism, multiculturalism, and international organization empowerment can be applied when working with Asian immigrant families.

A peacemaking approach to criminology is a humane, nonviolent, and scientific approach to the treatment of crime and the offender.

This book provides a clear and engaging description of group dynamic processes.