Social Work category: 3462 books
by John Burton
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Designed as a practical guide, The Handbook of Residential Care presents a unique combination of real examples and case studies, analysis, guidance and reflective discussion. It brings together all areas of residential work and all levels of involvement in it, with an emphasis of direct personal work...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Written with the practicing psychotherapist in mind, this invaluable book presents cutting-edge knowledge on adult attachment and explores the implications for day-to-day clinical practice. Leading experts illustrate how theory and research in this dynamic area can inform assessment, case formulation,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This widely used practitioner resource and course text, now significantly revised, is considered the most comprehensive guide to working with children who have experienced major losses, family upheavals, violence in the school or community, and other traumatic events. Leading experts present a range...
Behavior Change in the Human Services
Behavioral and Cognitive Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Behavior Change in the Human Services, Sixth Edition continues to provide a systematic introduction and overview of behavioral and cognitive principles and their applications to a wide range of problems and situations encountered in the human service professions. Designed for students and practitioners,...
Mindfulness-Oriented Interventions for Trauma
Integrating Contemplative Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Grounded in research and accumulated clinical wisdom, this book describes a range of ways to integrate mindfulness and other contemplative practices into clinical work with trauma survivors. The volume showcases treatment approaches that can be tailored to this population's needs, such as mindfulness-based...
The School Services Sourcebook
A Guide for School-Based Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
This comprehensive sourcebook covers every aspect of school service delivery, arming practitioners with the nuts and bolts of evidence-based practice. Each of the 114 chapters serves as a detailed intervention map, beginning with a summary of the problem area and moving directly into step-by-step...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2008
There is currently a lively debate ongoing in society about the nature of trust and the conditions necessary to establish and sustain it. Given the role of trust in bridging uncertainty, it is perhaps not surprising that as our consciousness of risk has increased, the role and nature of trust in social...
The Emotional Experience of Adoption
A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Adoption is an extremely complex and emotionally demanding process for all those involved. This book explores the emotional experience of adoption from a psychoanalytic perspective, and demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding and treatment can contribute to thinking about and working with adopted...
Understanding and Working with the Spectrum of Autism
An Insider's View
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
To many of the people who live or work with an individual with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the processes by which those with autism make sense of the world around them may seem mysterious. In Understanding and Working with the Spectrum of Autism Wendy Lawson demonstrates these processes using...
Latino Families in Therapy, Second Edition
A Guide to Multicultural Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This acclaimed work--now in an extensively revised second edition--provides an up-to-date conceptual framework and hands-on strategies for culturally competent clinical practice with Latino families and individuals. Practitioners and students gain an understanding of the family dynamics, migration...
by Maritza Montero
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Improve decision-making skills for community organizations and their leaders-from a participatory perspective!
This book will show you how (and why) participatory communities come into being and what they can accomplish, regardless of the current political climate. It also examines leadership-and...
by Christiane Sanderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Counselling Skills for Working with Shame helps professionals to understand and identify shame and to build shame resilience in both the client and themselves.
Shame is ubiquitous in counselling where there is an increased vulnerability and risk of exposure to shame. While many clients experience...
Adult Drug and Alcohol Problems, Children's Needs, Second Edition
An Interdisciplinary Training Resource for Professionals - with Practice and Assessment Tools, Exercises and Pro Formas
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Parental drug use can cause serious harm to children. Adult Drug and Alcohol Problems, Children's Needs supports practitioners in their work with families where parental drug use leads to concerns about children's welfare.
The training resource contains:
· summaries of the key messages...
Dark secrets of childhood
Media power, child abuse and public scandals
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Over the last few decades, public opinion has been traumatised by revelations of child abuse on a mass scale. It has become the major human rights story of the 21st century in Western society. This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between the media, child abuse and shifting adult–child...