Human Services category: 778 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
When community and family support systems are weak or unavailable, and when internal resources fail, populations that struggle with chronic, persistent, acute, and/or unexpected problems become vulnerable to physical, cognitive, emotional, and social deterioration. Yet despite numerous risk factors,...
Child Maltreatment
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Child Maltreatment, Third Edition, by Cindy Miller-Perrin and Robin Perrin, is a thoroughly updated new edition of the first textbook for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students in this field. The text is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to child maltreatment by disseminating...
by Judith Bula Wise
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005
For more than 150 years, empowering practices have been used by social workers in their work with families, but the techniques of today differ significantly from those of the pioneers or even from those of a few years ago. Today's practitioners recognize that empowering others is impossible; social...
by Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Dr. HOUSE SYNDROME is an essay on a type of psychopathic behaviour in some people. It is characterized by the person's unconscious ability to avoid an emotional condition as if it was a physical ailment. These people do not know why they behave well. This is due to dissociation between the cerebral...
I Will Go With You Into The Dark
Short Stories of the Alaska State Trooper Chaplaincy
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
The Waltmans are both tireless advocates for the chaplaincy program, and I thank them for the open communication and supporting efforts they have continuously demonstrated over the years. Major D. Casanovas, Deputy Director, Alaska State Troopers, Anchorage, Alaska *** The example set by Chaplains...
Brief Counseling That Works
A Solution-Focused Therapy Approach for School Counselors and Other Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Everything you need for maximum counseling results in less time!
Expert Gerald Sklare provides fresh insights and new applications for solution-focused brief counseling (SFBC). Learn to:
•Conduct brief, short-term sessions that lead to rapid, observable change
•Create well-defined...
Essential Counseling Skills
Practice and Application Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Essential Counseling Skills: Practice and Application Guide offers practical, step-by-step guidance for developing and applying the skills necessary for careers in counseling. Using the metaphor of a professional journey, this guide provides commentary and background information throughout, as readers...
The School Counselor’s Guide to ADHD
What to Know and Do to Help Your Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Covers current information on causes, symptoms, and medications for ADHD, as well as the school counselor's role in providing interventions, collaborating with teachers, and communicating with parents.
by Rich Furman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Treating men as a culturally distinct group, Rich Furman integrates key conceptions of masculinity into culturally sensitive social work practice with men. Focusing on veterans, displaced workers, substance abusers, mental health consumers, and other groups that might be unlikely to seek help, Furman...
by Chris Brown, Dr. Changming Duan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Organized around the latest CACREP Standards, Becoming a Multiculturally Competent Counselor by Changming Duan and Chris Brown is a timely book that covers the core concepts, theories, and skills of multicultural and social justice counseling. With a focus on helping readers develop their multicultural...
Childhood, Youth, and Social Work in Transformation
Implications for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Social workers today not only face competing claims concerning the rights and needs of children and youth, but they also confront contradictions between policy and practice. Social workers are expected to fight for the best interests of the child, even though financial support for children's welfare...
by Susan Howard
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Psychodynamic Counselling in a Nutshell explains in clear, jargon-free style, the concepts at the heart of the psychodynamic approach, and, drawing on case material, describes the therapeutic practice which rests on those ideas. Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, the book introduces:...
Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing
Continued Lessons of Police Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Events in the United States during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was especially true in terms of their relationship with society. These events included, among others: the due process revolution, which guided how police were to do their job; social...
Culturally Considerate School Counseling
Helping Without Bias
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
This compassionately written guidebook cultivates “cultural competence,” integrates ASCA National Model standards, and provides strategies for exploring each student’s individuality and responding accordingly.