Human Services category: 778 books
Exploring Existential Meaning
Optimizing Human Development Across the Life Span
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1999
Both implicit and existential meaning are important constructs in fully understanding human experience. The editors of this volume present a forum for an array of viewpoints and recent research that address the notion of optimal human growth.
by Dr. Ralph Brody, Dr. Murali D Nair
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Now in its Fourth Edition, Effectively Managing and Leading Human Service Organizations continues to provide invaluable creative ideas for achieving managerial success. Authors Ralph Brody and Murali Nair dissect and diagnose common workplace dilemmas, offering current and future managers the skills...
The Biafran Humanitarian Crisis, 1967–1970
International Human Rights and Joint Church Aid
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This book focuses on the Biafran humanitarian crisis of 1967–1970 which generated a surge of human rights anxieties and attracted the attention of world humanitarian organizations. For the first time in recent history, different church groups and humanitarian activists around the world came together...
Teeth
The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A debut in the tradition of Mary Roach by a prize-winning journalist: Mary Otto is the leading U.S. journalist covering oral health and dentistry, has won major industry awards, and is the recipient of national fellowships to support her work.
Opportunities: Dental care access burst onto the...
by Rod Purnell
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
We live in very uncertain times. One only needs to turn their thoughts to 9-11 to witness just how uncertain the world has become.
Not only are we facing disaster on a global level, individually thousands of us experience our own forms of disaster every day. Fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes,...
by Alfred Kadushin, Daniel Harkness
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the field and the place, function, and challenges of supervision in social work practice.
This fifth edition takes into account the sizable number...
Australia's Welfare Wars
The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia.
by Donna Hardina, PhD, Jane Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
Presenting an empowerment-oriented management approach, this ground-breaking how-to guide covers the most recent innovations and current theories you need to create a successful social service organization.
This all-in-one guide to service organization management best practices will help you...
by kolawole olawale
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
GONE INTERNATIONAL!!! BEST SELLING AFRICA-AMERICAN BOOK "THE FACK" a prolific- motivational and inspirational book, which gives Africans a new label and all human a new sense of belonging. love for nature and humanity would just make you a true fack even after reading through this rich book....
The Interpreted World
An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2005
Praise for First Edition:
`This book is highly recommended to a wide range of people as a clear and systematic introduction to phenomenological psychology... the book has set the stage for possible new colloquia between the phenomenological and other approaches in psychology' - Changes
`As...
Proposing Prosperity?
Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
"Fragile families"—unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially—are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship...
Critical Suicidology
Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
This book is a must-read for practitioners, policy makers, and researchers working in mental health services, psychology, counselling, social work, psychiatry, medicine, philosophy, sociology, suicidology, feminism, anthropology, critical disability studies, and cultural studies.
The Life Model of Social Work Practice
Advances in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Originally published in 1980, this seminal work was the first to introduce an ecological perspective into social work practice. The third edition expands and deepens this perspective, further developing the basic premise that, by being situated within the people:environment interface, the social work...
Baby Boomers of Color
Implications for Social Work Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Because researchers often treat baby boomers of color as belonging to one group, quality data on the individual status of specific racial populations is lacking, leading to insufficiently designed programs, policies, and services. The absence of data is a testament to the invisibility of baby boomers...