Social Work category: 3462 books
Partnership and Pragmatism
The German Response to AIDS Prevention and Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2003
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important themes in German HIV/AIDS prevention and care from the beginning of the epidemic to the present. Multidisciplinary in approach, it highlights the unique contributions of Germany to AIDS work, making available for the first time knowledge...
by Katherine Milewski Hertlein, Fred P Piercy, Joseph L Wetchler
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Help your clients’ relationships survive infidelity!
In the Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity, a panel of seasoned experts reflects on issues central to affairs, and on how to help couples heal and learn from them. First, editors Fred P. Piercy, Katherine M. Hertlein, and Joseph...
How Does Foster Care Work?
International Evidence on Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning,...
Change
What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Change is often a mystery, one that baffles doctors, therapists, teachers, coaches, parents--and especially those of us who struggle to alter our own bad habits or make lasting improvements in our lives. Why do we suddenly change for the better after years of failed efforts? Why do some of us never...
Becoming a Solution Detective
A Strengths-Based Guide to Brief Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
If you are interested in making your practice solution-focused quickly and effectively, look no further than this text. The authors, co-founders of the Brief Therapy Group, demystify the process of psychotherapy, making the concept of solution-based therapy accessible and relevant for newcomers to...
Night Call
Embracing Compassion and Hope in a Troubled World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Caring for our family members, friends, and others is a central part of a rewarding life. For those in healing and helping professions such as medicine, nursing, education, psychotherapy, social work, ministry, and the military, the potential for a meaningful way of being may even become more possible....
Evidence-Based Treatment with Older Adults
Theory, Practice, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Evidence Based Treatment with Older Adults: Theory, Practice, and Research provides a detailed examination of five research-supported psychosocial interventions for use with older adults: cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, life review/reminiscence, problem solving therapy, and...
by Bob Lonne, Maria Harries, Mel Gray
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
In their day-to-day practice, social work and human services practitioners frequently find themselves in confusing ethical quandaries, trying to balance the numerous competing interests of protecting children from harm and promoting family and community capacity. This book explores the ethical issues...
Research for Social Workers
An introduction to methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Research for Social Workers has built a strong reputation as an accessible guide to the key research methods and approaches used in the discipline. Ideal for beginners, the book outlines the importance of social work research, its guiding principles and explains how to choose a topic area, develop...
Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents:A Guide for School-Based Professionals
A Guide for School-Based Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Selective mutism, or refusal or unwillingness to speak in certain situations or settings, poses a particular challenge to educators and other school-based professionals. In many cases, school personnel are on the front lines of assessment and treatment for these children and must help them succeed...
Community Care Practice and the Law
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care.
It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of...
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Its Effective Use in Agency Settings
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Re-energize your practice!
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Its Effective Use in Agency Settings chronicles the lessons learned when a substance abuse counseling program switches its theoretical orientation from problem-focused to solution-focused. The book details the technical aspects of the...
by Roger Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Values and their application are a continuing area of concern for those involved in work with children and families. This book provides a means of understanding models of social welfare and children's services, and relating these to the challenges of practice. Key debates about values in children's...
The Challenges of Mental Health Caregiving
Research • Practice • Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Caring for the ill, disabled, very old, or very young requires a labor-intensive commitment that is not only essential to the well-being of individuals and to society as a whole, but also fraught with physical, financial, and psychological risks. And despite the critical nature of their job, caregivers...