Social Work category: 3462 books
Doing Couple Therapy, Second Edition
Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Now thoroughly revised, this practical, user-friendly guide has helped thousands of novice couple therapists and students to navigate the challenges of clinical work with couples in conflict. Robert Taibbi presents effective strategies for rapidly identifying a couple's core issues and conducting...
by Liz Tilly
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
If you are working within the learning disability sector and studying for the QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care, you will find this book invaluable in helping you to achieve the unit on Person Centred Approaches. It explains person centred values, how they must influence all aspects of your work...
by Anna Chesner, Sheila Ryan, Jane Read
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
This is a book that unashamedly brings love, spirit and soul into the heart of the supervision process but does so without becoming sanctimonious or precious. We see this through the various heart-felt experiences and stories of the different helping professionals that Robin Shohet has brought together'
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Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Prevention, Advocacy, and Trauma-Informed Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This is the first comprehensive text to critically analyze the current research and best practices for working with children, adolescents, and adults involved in sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). With a unique, research-based focus on practice, the book synthesizes the key...
Challenging the third sector
Global prospects for active citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This is the first book to explore the different relationships between active citizenship and civil society, particularly the third sector within civil society. In what ways can the third sector nurture active citizenship? How have the third sector and active citizenship been constructed and reconstructed...
by Martha Friendly, Susan Prentice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In Canada, early childhood education and care includes childcare programs, kindergartens and nursery schools. When these programs are well-designed, they support children’s development and accommodate parents who work or study. About Canada: Childcare answers questions about early childhood education...
They Still Pick Me Up When I Fall
The Role of Caring in Youth Development and Community Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2000
This book is a call to action to parents, youth workers, policymakers—anyone who works for and worries about the next generation—to recognize and promote the values of caring in public and private life. It is about teenagers—those who no longer need the care given to babies and children but...
Supporting adult care-leavers
International good practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Growing up in care is not just a part of childhood, but can have ongoing impacts across a person’s life. Various inquiries have revealed accounts of abuse and neglect, and a fracturing of family relationships. Organised thematically to allow comparison of different initiatives, this book considers...
In Care and After
A Positive Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Based on research from the Thomas Coram Research Unit, the contributors to this text look at the views and experiences of young people and provide an encouraging outlook of what those in care have the potential to achieve. Those factors that help to result in more successful outcomes are identified,...
Play in Healthcare for Adults
Using play to promote health and wellbeing across the adult lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
PLAY. We all do it: wordplay, love play, role-play; we play cards, play sport, play the fool, and play around. And that’s just the grown-ups! It features in every aspect of our lives, whether we call it by that or another name. We all do it, but why do we do it? What does it mean to play and what,...
Policy and Program Planning for Older Adults
Realities and Visions
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2007
This authoritative book serves as an invaluable resource for policy advocates, program planners, and service delivery agents. It provides an overview of the major pieces of legislation that currently impact the field of aging, and the lives of older adults; addresses the philosophical, historical,...
In the Shadow of Death
Restorative Justice and Death Row Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
The press called Martin's actions a "crime spree." Already convicted of armed robbery, Martin was facing the death penalty. In less than two weeks the jury would decide his fate. Terrified that his son would be sentenced to die, Phillip did the only thing he felt he could do: in an act of faith and...
Sexual Minorities
Discrimination, Challenges and Development in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Explore the crucial issues facing the GLBT population in their struggle for acceptance in contemporary America!
Sexual Minorities: Discrimination, Challenges, and Development in America examines the stumbling blocks that prevent gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and trangenders from living wholesome,...
A Million Missions
The Non Profit Sector in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
After the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi on 30 January 1948, there was a major thrust in favour of voluntary action in India. Six weeks later a few men and women met at Sewagram near Wardha in Maharashtra. They were seeking answers to various questions, including the role that...