Human Services category: 778 books
by Justice V.R. Krishna Lyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2004
Rhetoric versus Reality, a volume in the series New Agenda for Humanity, is in fact a case for making a world where is respect for human entitlement to justice, equality dignity and liberty.
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,...
by Jim Struve, Dr. Michael G. Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 1997
Is the bias against touch in psychotherapy justified? Is ethical touch an oxymoron? Can the recovery process be complete without healing touch? Mental health professionals are entrusted with the awesome responsibility of providing appropriate treatment for clients in a safe environment that nurtures...
by Bertram S. Puckle
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Funeral Customs
by Bertram S. Puckle
"A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor....
StreetWays
Chronicling the Homeless in Miami
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Photographs by Lewis P. Wilkerson StreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami is a collection of interviews with 28 homeless individuals living in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Besides extensive photographs of these people and their lives on the street, the book also includes interviews with social...
by Cathy Costa, Nancy Pickering-Bernheim, Steven Soifer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Community economic development (CED) is an increasingly essential factor in the revitalization of low- to moderate-income communities. This cutting-edge text explores the intersection of CED and social work practice, which both focus on the well-being of indigent communities and the empowerment of...
Firing Up Regional Brain Networks
The Promise of Brain Circulation in the ASEAN Economic Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The goal of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) of encouraging intraregional mobility must be understood in the context of changing population dynamics, rising educational levels and aspirations, and increasingly dynamic---if complex---economic forces. This report explores the forces...
Tales from the Therapy Room
Shrink-Wrapped
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
These ten fictional short stories give students of counselling and psychotherapy a unique insight into what actually goes on in therapy. Exploring aspects of the client-therapist relationship, the reader is given a fly-on-the-wall view of the therapeutic process. Rather than suggesting a 'correct'...
Queering Tourism
Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated.
From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyses the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the public display of queer bodies -...
by Kathleen Stephany
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Research demonstrates that even if empathy the capacity to perceive or share emotions with other beings is not part of a person’s communication skill set, it can be taught. Empathy can, therefore be viewed as an acquired communication skill. Cultivating and practicing the skill of empathy among health...
Integration in Counselling & Psychotherapy
Developing a Personal Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Now in its second edition, this book is established reading for any practitioner or trainee wishing to develop their own personal style of working. As well as examining contemporary integrative approaches, the authors show how to develop an individual approach to integrating theories and methods from...
Carl Rogers' Helping System
Journey & Substance
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1998
`This book is a monumental achievement, and person-centred practitioners will be indebted to Goff Barrett-Lennard for many years to come. He has written no only a definitive study of the history of person-centred approach - what he calls a report of the "evolutionary course of a human science"...
Social Work
Value-Guided Practice for a Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This innovative textbook reconfigures generalist social work practice for the twenty-first century. Incorporating historical, ethical, and global perspectives, the volume presents new conceptualizations, definitions, and explanations for social work practice and principles in the areas of assessment,...
The Exodus is Not Over
Migrations from the Ruptured Homelands of Northeast India
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Economic deprivation, insurgencies and deadly ethnic clashes have driven thousands of impoverished men and women from the Northeastern region of India to seek a better life in the towns and cities of mainland India and further abroad. Some find themselves working amidst the unimaginable opulence of...