Over the past few decades, psychoanalysis and dynamic psychiatry have been steadily stepping back from a key role in the understanding and treatment of depressive disorders.
Portraits of Change is a deep, intimate look at the powerful impact of the women's movement and the widespread social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s on women's lives.
Using James Truslow Adams' definition of the American dream, this book investigates whether black African immigrants in Texas are achieving the American dream.
Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites, social status transition rites, and redressive rites.
This innovative book stresses the distinction of the human race from other species by using what the author calls Human Symbols (HS): language, thought, religion, knowledge/science, and cultural values and norms.
The Transformational Decade shows the transformation that took place in American life from the attack on the World Trade Center to the emergence of the Obama presidency.
This reader presents case studies from a number of sources that illustrate the mutual, reciprocal impact of technology on one hand and the social sciences, including government policy, on the other.
This book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power.
Arguably sociology's first classic and one of Durkheim's major works, The Division of Labour in Society studies the nature of social solidarity, exploring the ties that bind one person to the next so as to hold society together in conditions of modernity.
Having gone through 30 years of development, the new edition of this highly-regarded classic is the most trusted companion for understanding and promoting the potential for social work with disabled people.
Focusing on health and social care, this book shows how important the body can be to a range of issues such as disability, old age, sexuality, consumption, food and public space.
Emancipation and the citizenship that followed conferred upon former slaves the right to create family relationships that were sanctioned, recognized, and regulated by the laws that governed the families of all American citizens.
Hundreds of tribal libraries, archives, and other information centers offer the services patrons would expect from any library: circulation of materials, collection of singular items (such as oral histories), and public services (such as summer reading programs).
Women in America have come a long way in the last hundred years, from lacking the right to vote to holding some of the highest profile positions in the country.
Children and young people in care who have been traumatized need a therapeutic environment where they can heal and which meets their emotional and developmental needs.
Positive psychology focuses on building strengths and developing creative and positive thinking in order to boost happiness, well-being and achievement.
Tiger's Child, the deeply-moving sequel to Torey Hayden's Sunday Times bestselling first book, One Child, plus the first of four books from learning disabilities specialist Mary MacCracken, The Lost Children, combined in a single eBook volume.
Children and young people in care who have been traumatized need a therapeutic environment where they can heal and which meets their emotional and developmental needs.
Positive psychology focuses on building strengths and developing creative and positive thinking in order to boost happiness, well-being and achievement.
Now in a fully updated and expanded edition, Levy and Orlans' classic text provides a comprehensive overview of attachment theory, how attachment issues manifest, and how they can be treated.
"e;I'd die without my Blackberry"e; - one young person's comment sums up a generation of young people who are increasingly living their daily lives through their phones and the internet.
Children from abroad who are alone in the UK are vulnerable and at increased risk of harm without the care and protection of their parents or caregivers.
This fully updated second edition of Grief in Children provides an accessible overview of children's understanding of death at different ages and gives a detailed outline of exactly how the adults around them can best help them cope.
This accessible, foundational volume explores how modern art developed around the world by comparing contexts and artistic production in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa from the 1850s through the 1960s.
Since the Munro report (2011), a greater emphasis has been placed on the value of child-centred practice in social work with children, young people and families.
In the Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800) the word 'leisure' had a limited presence in intellectual discourse, but in public debates about related concepts such as pleasure and luxury modern practices of and attitudes towards leisure were increasingly discussed.
Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismaticteacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham, North Carolina.
The Marxian theory of fetishism is usually interpreted as a theory of false consciousness, alienation, or reification pertaining to commodities or culture.
The end of the first quarter of the 21st century invites us to revisit what gender means in society and how it has shaped our literal and cultural landscapes.
