Steve Myers: 12 books
by Steve Myers
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Like baseball itself, DREAMING .400 exists outside of time; past, present, and future merge. Its 11 short stories are a rally cheer for the magic of the game—in the seductive swing of a girl who turns tinsel into gold; in the passion of an orphan on a quest to reach the Astrodome; in a vision of...
Working With Violence
Policies and Practices in Risk Assessment and Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
Assessing and managing violence places a heavy burden on practitioners in social work, criminal justice and health care settings. Milner and Myers examine current explanatory theories of violence and how these influence assessment and intervention. Using case studies and a variety of agency documents,...
Working With Violence
Policies and Practices in Risk Assessment and Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
Assessing and managing violence places a heavy burden on practitioners in social work, criminal justice and health care settings. Milner and Myers examine current explanatory theories of violence and how these influence assessment and intervention. Using case studies and a variety of agency documents,...
by Steve Myers, Judith Milner
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Solution focused practice offers proven ways of helping adults overcome a range of life difficulties, from physical and mental illness to learning disability and the challenges of old age.
This book outlines the basic principles and techniques which can be used to identify people's strengths...
Working with Violence and Confrontation Using Solution Focused Approaches
Creative Practice with Children, Young People and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
An authoritative, interdisciplinary book which outlines how solution focused practice is particularly effective in addressing violent behaviour in clients and service users, encompassing work with both adults and children.
Solution focused approaches have been used successfully with a range...
by Steve Myers, Judith Milner, Patrick O'byrne
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Assessment is a crucial social work task. Yet there is so much to consider that it can sometimes feel overwhelming. This core text book gives you structured, practical guidance on how to approach this vital professional skill. In a clear and accessible style, the authors provide both the theory behind...
Creative Ideas for Solution Focused Practice
Inspiring Guidance, Ideas and Activities
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Exploring creative ways to implement solution focused practice, this book is packed full of ideas to inspire ways of working with clients which focus on their strengths as a means to finding solutions.
Outlining how and why strengths-based interviewing for solutions is effective, the book provides...
by Morana Alac, Rachel Prentice, Michael Barany
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent theoretical perspectives on representation.
Representation in Scientific Practice, published by the MIT Press in 1990, helped coalesce a long-standing interest in...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Southern Illinois University at 150 Years
Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major...
Social work
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2008
Social work in the UK has recently undergone its biggest change for 30 years. As new regulatory bodies are working to consolidate social work's professional status, a new training programme, now at degree level, expects increased in-practice learning. Yet until now, students have struggled to find...
Social work with sex offenders
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. It addresses the emotional impacts of ‘facing the sex offender’, the importance of values and ethics in practice, and reviews popular and academic understandings of sex...