Violence and abuse in society

This book is a challenge to the silos in our human services that an 'atomised' focus gives rise to.

A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationA nation of great resources, the United States is confronted all too often with headlines about shootings in schools and with the unsettling reality that homicide rates for juveniles far exceed that of other industrialized nations.

Sex Therapy: The Basics offers an introduction to modern sex therapy and is essential reading for anyone working professionally with sexual issues or just interested in sex.

In 1977, Jeanne’s German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he’s gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate.

This book aims to help therapists understand the challenges gay men face in their sex lives, providing professionals and gay men with evidence-based interventions and clinical tools to help them heal and live overall healthier lives.

When we think of child abuse, we imagine several different forms of harmful parenting and injuries to children.

Medieval Violence provides a detailed analysis of the practice of medieval brutality, focusing on a thriving region of northern France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.

The chapters in this two-part volume deal with a range of gender-based violence issues that are making news headlines daily.

'In many ways we were an ordinary family: mum, dad, two kids, three dogs, one rabbit, two guinea pigs.

A groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors.

Der Band untersucht die starke Priorisierung des Studiengangs Soziale Arbeit durch Bildungsaufsteiger*innen als ein soziales Phänomen und leistet einen Beitrag zur zentralen Diskussion.

This important text shows how child development theory applies to professionals' working practice.

Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery.

Due to the demand for flexible working hours and employees who are available around the clock, the time patterns of childcare and schooling have increasingly become a political issue.

In this gripping and provocative ethnography of death,National Book Award winner and MacArthur Genius Fellow Jason De Leon sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our timethe human consequences of US immigration and border policy.

Chronicling horrific events that brought the 20th century to witness the largest number of systematic slaughters of human beings in any century across history, this work goes beyond historic details and examines contemporary psychological means that leaders use to convince individuals to commit horrific acts in the name of a politial or military cause.

A range of leading philosophers set the best resources of the philosophical tradition to the task of interpreting violence in its diverse expressions.

FIVE STAR AMAZON REVIEWS for the first edition:Every community practitioner caring for children and families should carry this book with them.

This handbook brings together the relevant literature on children and their developmental characteristics, the legal venues in which they may appear, and the systemic issues practitioners must consider to provide a thorough guide to working with children in the legal system.

Guangxi, a region on China's southern border with Vietnam, has a large population of ethnic minorities and a history of rebellion and intergroup conflict.

Das Buch "Was wir wirklich sind - Die Erkenntnis für ein glückliches und erfülltes Leben" weist auf eine für das menschliche Auge unsichtbare geistliche Existenz im Menschen und im gesamten Universum hin.

Killing as punishment in the USA, whether ordained by lynch mob or by the courts, reflects a paradox of the American nation: liberal, pluralistic, yet prone to lethal violence.

Appropriate for both sex therapists and art therapists, When Art Therapy Meets Sex Therapy explores sexuality and gender through the use of art making, connecting relevant theories and research from both fields.

Exploring both the intrapersonal (moral) and interpersonal (ethical) nature of death and dying in the context of their development (philosophical), Dying in a Transhumanist and Posthuman Society shows how death and dying have been and will continue to be governed in any given society.

In the country's changing threat environment, homegrown violent extremism (HVE) represents the next challenge in counterterrorism.

A global discourse regarding gender and violence is emerging as feminists, media experts, and social scientists consider the place of gender in episodic acts and chronic conditions of violence.

Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly.

Drawing on the author's unusual background as a seminarian turned scientist and business executive, Boys of the Cloth presents a unique analysis of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.

Das Ziel, Verurteilte wieder in die Gesellschaft einzugliedern, ist so alt wie der moderne Strafvollzug selbst.

Wounded Angels: Inspiration From Children in Crisis uses vignettes of children in crisis situations to portray how troubling behaviors can act as clues for ways children can grow stronger after traumatic stress.

In its essence, this is a practical book that focuses on aiding recovery from trauma over a carefully structured timeframe.

The Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence is a modern reference from the leading international scholars in domestic violence research.

This book draws international attention to the autonomy of the child accompanying incarcerated mothers, and those they leave behind in the community, despite being dependent on the convicted caregiver.

Sex Therapy with Religious Patients is a comprehensive guidebook for mental health professionals who work with those struggling with sexual issues within a religious context.

How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe?

A father's account of the story that captivated America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his inspiring fight for commonsense gun laws in the aftermath.

Despite changes to laws and policies across most western democracies intended to combat violence to women, intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) remains discouragingly commonplace.

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This book explores a range of contemporary conflicts in which culture has become an explicit issue: ethnic nationalism, religious fundamentalism, the militarization of civilian life, opposition movements in authoritarian states, political resistance to redistributive reforms, and racism in racial democracies.

First published in 1989, Dan Allender's The Wounded Heart has helped hundreds of thousands of people come to terms with sexual abuse in their past.

Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care provides a comprehensive overview of good practice in caring for terminally-ill children, young people and their families.

Experts from a variety of fields join forces to show what fuels a most horrific violation of trust-sexual abuse by priests-and how the Church and church structure play a role in this abuse.

Sexual harassment is degrading and illegal.

Finding Your Sexual Voice promotes the genuine understanding of strong female sexuality and empowers women to value desire, pleasure, eroticism, and satisfaction.

Challenging Child Protection offers a ground-breaking new perspective which will illuminate and improve the professional understanding and practice of social workers and child protection workers.

Dreizehn Geschichten mit dem Erlebnis sexueller Gewalt werden aus der Sicht der Autorin und Jugendgynäkologin geschildert.

Violence is an inescapable through-line across the experiences of institutional residents regardless of facility type, historical period, regional location, government or staff in power, or type of population.