Violence and abuse in society

On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops.

Powerful tools for spreading peace in your communityUnfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence are threatening to pull the world apart.

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

With statistics showing that 1 in 5 women have experienced some form of sexual abuse, it is likely that all birth professionals will support a survivor of such abuse at some point during their career.

New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives, Third Edition focuses on new and cutting-edge therapy paradigms as alternatives to conventional clinical strategies, challenging practitioners to expand our thinking about how to deal with sexual concerns.

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.

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.

The Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals, 3rd Edition, builds on the authors' authoritative first person voice on sexual matters of the previous editions.

Coverage of recent world events has focused on violence associated with Islam.

Domestic violence is encountered by disabled women more frequently than non-disabled women, yet disabled women are less likely to receive appropriate services, and there has been little research on their experiences and how this problem can be addressed.

In this galvanizing book for all educators, Kristin Souers and Pete Hall explore an urgent and growing issue--childhood trauma--and its profound effect on learning and teaching.

A powerful feminist examination of the deeply ingrained roots of rape in our shared cultural valuesRape is the most frequently occurring violent crime in America.

The histories of the Dirty Wars in Mexico and Argentina (1960s-1980s) have largely erased how women experienced and remember the gendered violence during this traumatic time.

This text examines human sexuality through psychoanalytic theory and modern ego psychology, which looks at emotional meaning and its organization in symbolic representations of affect as organized by the ego.

Growing attention has focused on the education of children in the child welfare system, particularly those in foster care, but ninety-two percent of children in the child welfare system stay with their parents and their educational needs receive little attention.

"e;Consent is not the absence of 'NO', it is an enthusiastic YES!

The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children's rights terminology into various public and private arenas.

Coverage of recent world events has focused on violence associated with Islam.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Kayla Harrison has always been a fighter--yet as a young teen, no one knew she was also a victim.

It is difficult to imagine how orphan asylums and children's homes - often depicted as places where abuse, deprivation, and cruelty were commonplace - once presented a viable solution to child neglect.

Child abuse and neglect are intractable problems exacting a terrible toll on children and rending the very fabric of our society.

Assessing and managing violence places a heavy burden on practitioners in social work, criminal justice and health care settings.

Focusing on how rape, sexual assault, and harassment relate to underrepresentation of women in public authority, this book provides an insightful exploration of the policy context that impedes women's advancement to positions of power.

Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of ordering.

One of the world's top experts on betrayal looks at why we often can't see it right in front of our faces If the cover-up is worse than the crime, blindness to betrayal can be worse than the betrayal itself.

When Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an accident during her senior year of high school, she could have retreated from life and let her disability become her defining quality-and no one would have blamed her for it.

The reality of international relations and its academic study are still almost entirely constituted by men.

Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world.

The Story-Takers charts new territory in public pedagogy through an exploration of the multiple forms of communal protests against the mafia in Sicily.

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.

From Global to Grassroots looks at how transnational activism aimed at combating violence against women is used to instigate changes in local practice.

Assault on the Soul: Women in the Former Yugoslavia sheds light upon women's wartime experiences and makes sense of their coping strategies in the face of the innumerable atrocities committed against them.

This acclaimed work describes a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss.

"e;Pence and Paymar are right on target again.

Intended primarily for mental health professionals, Demystifying Love deals plainly with topics rarely written about for clinicians.

Is medication the right choice for treating your childs emotional or behavioral problems?

A time of great hardship, the Second World War became a consequential episode in the history of Soviet childhood policies.

This groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications.

A comprehensive look at the many types of male and female sex offenders who victimize children, adolescents, and adultsComprehensive Mental Health Practice with Sex Offenders and Their Families presents practitioners, professionals, and policymakers with effective, user-friendly practice methods for working with all types of sex offenders.

The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.

Build a strong foundation on the principles and procedures of modern forensic science.

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline.

Tout est calme, tout va bien, et soudain l’intolérable surgit et avec lui la peur et la panique… L’irruption de la violence a toujours un air d’apocalypse.

This informative and thoughtful book demonstrates the value of social group work concepts applied to domestic and other forms of violence.

The helping professions and social scientists traditionally seek concepts and paradigms that can be used in shaping research and services focused on marginalized populations in the United States.

Third volume of the first world history of violence, providing original and authoritative contributions on a universal theme in history.

This book takes a comprehensive look at the understanding and treatment of child sexual abuse in psychoanalytic theory and practice, and in society as a whole.

Increasingly, social, cultural, and political discourse is deeming Black women and girls to be a critical group to engage.

"e;This innovative book examines an important, timely topicOThe content will greatly enhance practitioners' and students' understanding and skills in working with men of color.