Msw: 191 books
Transformational Reminiscence
Life Story Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2007
"[A]s recently as fifty years ago people believed that reminiscing was a sign of senility....Today, along with a greater understanding of the significance of reminiscence we have seen the rising popularity of private memoirs in various forms, from oral histories by universities to audio and videotapes...
ACT for Adolescents
Treating Teens and Adolescents in Individual and Group Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In this much-needed guide, a clinical psychologist and a social worker provide a flexible, ten-week protocol based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help adolescents overcome mental health hurdles and thrive.
If you’re a clinician working with adolescents, you understand the challenges...
Introduction to Research - E-Book
Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Bridge the gap between research and practice with Introduction to Research: Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies, 5th Edition. This easy-to-read edition covers all the major research design strategies: qualitative, quantitative, naturalistic, experimental-type, and mixed method. And with...
Role Reversal
How to Take Care of Yourself and Your Aging Parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
• 45 million people are currently caregivers to aging family members. • A growing number of baby boomers today are finding themselves “sandwiched” between caring for their own family and their parents. • The author weaves her personal experience taking care of her father with her professional...
Mindfulness-Based Sobriety
A Clinician's Treatment Guide for Addiction Recovery Using Relapse Prevention Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Too often, clients with substance abuse and addiction problems achieve sobriety only to relapse shortly after. As a clinician in the addiction treatment field, you are undoubtedly familiar with this common scenario, and it can be a source of extreme frustration. To make matters worse, clients may...
Direct Practice Skills for Evidence-Based Social Work
A Strengths-Based Text and Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Featuring an evidence- and strengths-based approach to practice methods, this new text teaches students how to apply social work skills in a variety of settings. Designed to enhance self-awareness, professionalism, ethical reasoning, cultural sensitivity, and an appreciation for social justice issues,...
Advocating for Children in Foster and Kinship Care
A Guide to Getting the Best out of the System for Caregivers and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
This book is the first to provide strategies for effective advocacy and placement within the foster care and kinship care systems. It also takes a rare look at the dynamics of the foster and kinship relationship, not just among children and the agency workers and service providers who intervene on...
Concurrent Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
An Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
A person with a mental health problem has a higher risk of having a substance use problem, just as a person with a substance use problem has an increased chance of having a mental health problem.
This guide:
explains the symptoms and causes of concurrent disorder
outlines the different...
The Nerve of Diabetes
My Journey as Told by a Woman of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
It has been my lifelong dream to write a booknot just any book but a book to encourage and inspire anyone who has been given a devastating diagnosis that this is not the end of it all. As long as you have breath in your body, always fight to survive whatever the trial or tribulation, pain, and suffering...
by Joseph C. Baginski MSW
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The author returned to the People's Republic of Vietnam after forty-three years and experienced a near total, catastrophic collapse of his psychological defense mechanisms through flashbacks. This book was written with combat veterans of the Vietnam War in mind, of whom, Joe Baginski, is one. The central...
I’Ll Take God
Hold the Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
Ill Take God-Hold the Religion is compelling, funny, raw and wise. This Jewish girl loves what this Catholic girl wrote and the way she wrote it. I came home to parts of my own story in a new way. We all have a relationship with this experience called Life. Irene challenges us to live our experience...
by Arie Louise Forshe PhD MSW
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Gods Character The Son of Gods Character Ruths Purpose, Spiritual Gifts, and Strengths King Davids Purpose, Spiritual Gifts, and Strengths John the Baptists Purpose, Spiritual Gifts, and Strengths Marys Purpose, Spiritual Gifts, and Strengths (John Mark) Bereavement Ministry Leadership Never Too Old to Be Used by God
Learning the Hidden Curriculum
The Odyssey of One Autistic Adult
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Drawing from her personal experiences, Judy Endow, author of the 2009 and 2010 Hidden Curriculum Calendars, provides lots of hidden curriculum items that pertain to most areas of adult life. In relating how she personally has learned to more successfully maneuver social interactions, she also presents...
by Reverend Sherrylyn D. Womble M.Div., MSW
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
This is a seven-day devotional that allows for self-study and devotion on how to wage spiritual warfare to battle and slay the enemy. This is a book for prayer warriors and those who want to become one. You will discover more about putting on the full armor of God; truth and righteousness; peace;...