Human Services category: 778 books
Personality Theories
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives is the groundbreaking, final text written by Albert Ellis, long considered the founder of cognitive behavioral therapies. The book provides students with supporting and contradictory evidence for the development of personality theories through time. Without...
Reshaping Theory in Contemporary Social Work
Toward a Critical Pluralism in Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
William Borden's persuasive collection of original essays reaffirms the place of theory in social work practice, showing how different theoretical models, therapeutic languages, and modes of intervention strengthen eclectic and integrative approaches to psychosocial intervention. A distinguished group...
One Hundred Years of Social Work: A History of the Profession in English Canada, 1900–2000
A History of the Profession in English Canada, 1900–2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it provides a critical and compelling look at the internal struggles and debates in the social work profession over the course of a century and investigates...
Guided Imagery
Creative Interventions in Counselling & Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
`I would recommend reading this enjoyable book in which the authors convey practical, creative and compassionate authenticity throughout. I think it will appeal to experienced counsellors, psychotherapists and arts therapists. It will also be a valuable resource to students' - Therapy Today
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by Katheryn Maddox Haddad
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Handicapped? Wanting to do good works for others anyway?
Too busy to add good works to your already cluttered life?
What do you say when a friend’s relative dies?
Wonder how to handle gossip, baby showers, mean bosses, etc. in the work place?
Do the poor in other countries bother you?
Want to teach...
Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions
Negotiation, Mediation, Advocacy, Facilitation, and Restorative Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
When people think of conflict, they often think of fights, wars, arguments, hot tempers, and hurtful consequences. Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions provides helping professionals with the theory, strategies, and skills they need to deal with conflict in a manner that is respectful,...
Service-Learning Through Community Engagement
What Community Partners and Members Gain, Lose, and Learn From Campus Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Offers a Unique Focus on the Experience of the Community Served
While campus engagement with the local community is generally viewed in a positive light, in reality these collaborations are more complex. Presenting a variety of contemporary models and frameworks for community engagement, this...
Making Things International 1
Circuits and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Building on recent debates in critical social theory and international relations, Making Things International I: Circuits and Motion presents twenty-five essays that engage the global, the local, and the international through the lens of objects. It represents the first substantial new materialist intervention...
by Sally Warner
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Sally spent five years over a ten year period volunteering in Mother Teresa’s homes especially in India. She met and chatted with hundreds of volunteers, locals, nuns and inmates. Now that adoptions from Mother’s homes have been stopped, 13 homes have been shut down yet Mother Teresa will become...
Kill the Gringo
The Life of Jack Vaughn—American diplomat, Director of the Peace Corps, US ambassador to Colombia and Panama, and conservationist
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Kill the Gringo is the wide-ranging, action-packed memoir of Jack Hood Vaughn, whose career in diplomacy, social advocacy and conservation spanned more than 25 jobs and 11 countries.A professional boxer during his college years, Jack joined the Marines in 1941, fighting in the battles of Guam and Okinawa...
Living Monuments
Confederate Soldiers' Homes in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
While battlefield parks and memorials erected in town squares and cemeteries have served to commemorate southern valor in the Civil War, Confederate soldiers' homes were actually 'living monuments' to the Lost Cause, housing the very men who made that cause their own. R. B. Rosenburg provides the...
Decision Cases for Advanced Social Work Practice
Confronting Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
These fifteen cases take place in child welfare, mental health, hospital, hospice, domestic violence, refugee resettlement, veterans' administration, and school settings and reflect individual, family, group, and supervised social work practice. They confront common ethical and treatment issues and...
Nursing with a Message
Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the nation’s health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This groundbreaking new book reveals the key role that...
The New Handbook of Children's Rights
Comparative Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2001
The new edition of this well established handbook provides up-to-date information on a topic of increasing importance across a range of disciplines and practices. It covers:* the debate concerning children's rights and developments in rights provision over the last twenty years* the impact of recent British legislation on children's rights in key a