Social Work category: 3462 books

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Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy

Research and Practice in Health and Social Care

by Brian Sheldon
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been extensively researched and shown to be solidly underpinned by evidence. Broadly applicable across a wide range of personal and social problems – from depression and phobias to child behavioural problems – it is only now beginning to be used to its...
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Social Work Research Methods

Learning by Doing

by Reginald O. York
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019

Social Work Research Methods: Learning by Doing is a step-by-step journey through the process of conducting research. With over 30 years of teaching experience, author Reginald O. York helps readers discover how research can enable them to better serve clients in the field. Each chapter features a...
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Confronting Injustice and Oppression

Concepts and Strategies for Social Workers

by David Gil
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013

More urgent than ever, David G. Gil's guiding text gives social workers the knowledge and confidence they need to change unjust realities. Clarifying the meaning, sources, and dynamics of injustice, exploitation, and oppression and certifying the place of the social worker in combating these conditions,...
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by Dr E A Hoggarth, Bryan Merton, Ms Mary Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009

When people set out to qualify in youth work they do not anticipate that it's about managing themselves; aims, intentions and outcomes; programmes and projects; case work; educational experiences and environments; budgets; volunteers and staff; and young people's development. This book ensures...
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Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative

A Case Study in CPS Supervision

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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014

Developing an Empirically Based Practice Initiative documents practice techniques that were used during a three-year training/demonstration project for child welfare supervisors working in the frontlines of child protection services in the Southeastern United States. This unique book is a guide to...
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by Karen Healy, Joan Mulholland
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012

Social workers are required to communicate in writing for a range of purposes and audiences. The new edition of this best-selling book aims to raise the profile of writing skills in social work practice. It encourages the development of writing techniques which will stand the reader in good stead...
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Critical Supervision for the Human Services

A Social Model to Promote Learning and Value-Based Practice

by Lou Johnston, Carolyn Noble, Mel Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

Practitioners in the helping professions today operate in challenging settings where budgets have been cut dramatically, and progression and success are too often defined primarily by key performance indicators and strategic outcomes. Tensions arise when such pressures conflict with helping professionals'...
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The Pursuit of Permanence

A Study of the English Child Care System

by Claire Baker, Ian Sinclair, Jenny Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007

Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The Pursuit of Permanence explores this core issue for children's services. Based on the largest...
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by Jeffrey Kottler
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

For more than thirty years, On Being a Therapist has inspired generations of mental health professionals to explore the most private and sacred aspects of their work helping others. In this thoroughly revised and updated fifth edition, Jeffrey Kottler explores many of the challenges that therapists...
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Battered Women and Their Families

Intervention Strategies and Treatment Programs, Third Edition

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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007

With a foreword by Barbara W. White, PhD, University of Texas at Austin The definitive work on battered women is now in a timely third edition. Considered the complete, in-depth guide to effective interventions for this pervasive social disease, Battered Women and Their Families has...
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Behavioral Medicine

A Social Worker's Guide

by John S. Wodarski
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009

Health care costs and the effective management of health care are of primary importance and concern to federal, state, and local governments. Consequently, it is necessary to develop innovative, successful, and integrated cost-effective treatments and procedures. Behavioral Medicine presents a new...
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by Katharine Briar-Lawson, Joan Levy Zlotnik
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

Train-and keep-a child welfare workforce that will make a difference! Charting the Impacts of University-Child Welfare Collaboration addresses the challenges of implementing workforce development initiatives designed to recruit students into the public child welfare field. Edited by Dr. Katharine...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017

This important resource offers theoretical and practical approaches to understanding and working with cultural realities in training and supervision, particularly in family therapy. Clinical wisdom, empirical findings, real-world examples, and hands-on suggestions demonstrate the vital role of building...
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by William Meezan, James I. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Take an in-depth look at what works-and what doesn't-in research with GLBT populations! This essential book examines the usefulness of current frameworks for research with GLBT populations and highlights the necessity for greater complexity in the conceptualization and design of research with...
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