Msw: 191 books
The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia
Helping Your Loved One Get the Most Out of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Will the person you love ever get better? Chances are you've grappled with the question. With care and support from their families, people with schizophrenia can and do make vast improvements. Noted therapists Kim Mueser and Susan Gingerich deepen your understanding of the illness and cover a wide...
by Caroline O'Grady, RN, MN
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2007
Concurrent substance use and mental health problems affect the person experiencing the problems, and also his or her family members and friends. Families need help to deal with the impact of concurrent disorders, but families are also a key to finding effective solutions. This guide can help families...
Post-Traumatic Stress Derailment
A Trauma Survivor’S Guide to Getting Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
No matter where trauma comes from, its always violent.
It breaks hearts and shatters shields regardless if its caused by an earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane, abuse, a car crash, murder, or something else. Those who suffer from trauma often wonder if theres something wrong with them.
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by Rose Anna Miller, Rose Anna Miller. MSW
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Let me start by saying I LOVE TEENAGERS! Considering my age you might chalk this off to dementia, but the truth is the more rebellious a teen, the more I love them. Rebellion is misdirected energy. What a challenge to guide that energy into positive channels. The fun and reward comes in the journey...
Healing of Soul, Healing of Body
Spiritual Leaders Unfold the Strength & Solace in Psalms
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
A source of solace and a healing resource for those who are facing illness, as well as those who care for them.
For centuries, people have turned to the Book of Psalms for solace, comfort, and catharsis, seeking guidance, meaning, hope, and reassurance—in short, spiritual healing.
This...
Healing and the Jewish Imagination
Spiritual and Practical Perspectives on Judaism and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin.
Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the...
How God Shows Up
A Compelling Story Following the Sudden Death of a Child and a Mother’S Determination to Find and Know Her Daughter’S Eternal Expression of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This deeply revealing and clutching true story portrays a single-parent woman who seeks her own death after experiencing the piercing pain of the sudden loss of her eleven-year-old daughter. She struggles a dual reality of consciousness as she bears the rivalry with her mind and emotions and wavers...
by Mary Louise Fleming, PhD, MA
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This text introduces students to the core concepts and principles of public health: the nature and scope of public health; its history; an introduction to health determinants and epidemiology; evidence-based practice in public health and understanding public health data plus more.
The Courage to Change
Personal Conversations about Alcoholism
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 1984
The classic New York Times bestseller: Real-life stories from prominent people talking about their experiences as alcoholics.
As an alcoholic himself, PBS host Dennis Wholey set out to collect the powerful stories of well-known people who have struggled with this disease. Included in this volume...
Stop Giving It Away
How to Stop Self-Sacrificing and Start Claiming Your Space, Power, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
• National statistics on the twenty most common occupations for women and men show a huge gender disparity in the type of professions where women dominate: caring and service jobs are held predominantly by women. • The value that women provide in informal care to spouses, parents, parents-in-law,...
by Daniel Weisman, MSW, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
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Many social work students today lack the basic writing skills they will need to practice effectively with clients. This user-friendly guide to effective writing skills focuses specifically on the types of writing social work practitioners are required to do—agency reports, client documentation,...
What in the World Are Your Kids Doing Online?
How to Understand the Electronic World Your Children Live In
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Texting. Blogging. IMing. Technology that has become second nature to our children remains uncharted territory for many parents. What in the World Are Your Kids Doing Online? tells you everything you need to know to navigate the parenting issues technology raises, and arms you with the tools you need...
The Anxiety Workbook for Kids
Take Charge of Fears and Worries Using the Gift of Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Anxiety in children is on the rise, and recent research has uncovered a link between highly imaginative children and anxiety. Using engaging illustrations and fun activities based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), one of the most proven-effective and widely used forms of therapy today, this Instant...
Resilient Widowers
Older Men Speak For Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2001
ìThis is a most impressive work on a much needed and neglected area of older men who lost their spouses. Moore and Stratton listened to what these men had to say and presented us with such a rich mosaic of feelings, experiences, and hypotheses for future research.î
- Leonard Poon, PhD, Dr Phil hc
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