Human Services category: 778 books
by C. Joanne Grabinski, MA, ABD
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
"101+ Careers is rich with useful information. I highly recommend the book for any student, emerging, or re-careering professional exploring their options for a career in gerontology and the resources they may need to go about pursuing it."
Jarmin Yeh, Institute for Health and Aging...
by Dr. Stephen Barton, Peter Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This book introduces an approach to CBT for depression that integrates cognitive-behavioural models, evidence and therapies. Rooted in evidence-based practice and practically focused, it draws on components of first, second and third-wave CBT to help readers tailor therapy to the needs of individual...
Getting the Best Out of Supervision in Counselling & Psychotherapy
A Guide for the Supervisee
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Getting the Best Out of Supervision in Counselling & Psychotherapy doesexactly what it says on the tin! Supervision is an essential part of counselling training and ensuring you know exactly how to get the very most out of supervision is important, whatever their level of study. Exploring how...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Forensic psychiatry and psychology involve specialized practice with unique patients, including children, the incarcerated, and involuntary clients, presenting practitioners with specific ethics challenges. In this volume, Ezra E. H. Griffith offers a selection of engaging essays that guide practicing...
Power and Welfare
Understanding Citizens' Encounters with State Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
In the welfare provision of today, power takes both the shape of juridical sanctions and of attractive offers for self-development. When state institutions punish criminals, remove children at risk, or enforce sanctions upon welfare recipients the question of power is immediately urgent. It is less...
The Politics of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Access to Medicines
World Pharmacy and India
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The book studies the pharmaceutical industry of India. It is one of the most successful stories of economic expansion and improvements in public health. Indian firms have made access to quality medicines possible and affordable in many developing countries. Indian pharmaceuticals are also exported...
Specialist Communication Skills for Social Workers
Developing Professional Capability
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book gives students a solid understanding of the key issues involved in effective communication within social work settings. Now going into its second edition, it combines practical examples with a clear theoretical approach and demonstrates the subtleties of communication with specific and diverse service users and carers.
by Marina Van Geenhuizen, Piet Rietveld
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Interdisciplinary contributors from across Europe and the USA join together in this book to provide a timely overview of the latest theories and policies related to transport networks. They cover topical issues such as: environmental benefits of substitution of aviation by high speed trains; incident...
Promoting Young People's Wellbeing through Empowerment and Agency
A Critical Framework for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The terms ‘wellbeing’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘agency’ are common parlance in policy and practice with children, young people and families (CYPF), yet are often misused or not fully understood. Further, there is a disconnect between these abstract concepts and tangible practice with CYPF.
This...
An Introduction to Helping Skills
Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Readers will be introduced to the three core approaches of counselling, coaching and mentoring, and shown how they work across a variety of settings, including therapy, teaching, social work and nursing.
Part 1 takes readers through the theory, approaches and skills needed for helping work,...
Change for the Better
Personal development through practical psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This bestselling book has helped thousands of people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also supported practitioners and trainee psychotherapists in their work with patients. This fifth edition features up-to- date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy...
Qualitative Journeys
Student and Mentor Experiences With Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Qualitative Journeys: Student and Mentor Experiences with Research takes a fresh approach to teaching qualitative research. Authors Victor Minichiello and Jeffrey Kottler share stories of student qualitative research experiences that reveal the struggles, the joys, the discoveries, and the surprises...
Applied Helping Skills
Transforming Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
With its practical, experiential approach, the Second Edition of Applied Helping Skills: Transforming Lives covers the basic skills and core interventions needed to begin seeing clients. By approaching therapy as an art rather than from a prescriptive diagnostic position, this text encourages readers...
Fostering Resilience
Expecting All Students to Use Their Minds and Hearts Well
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
This guide identifies the characteristics of resilient learning communities, revisits schools from the first edition, and offers case studies, sample questionnaires, strategies, and tools for self-evaluation.