Human Services category: 778 books
Family Violence in the United States
Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Rich in scholarly references and case materials, Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse, Second Edition by Denise A. Hines, Kathleen Malley-Morrison, and Leila B. Dutton is a thought-provoking book that encourages students to question assumptions, evaluate...
Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy
Changing the World for Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy: Changing the World for Children (by Amy Conley Wright and Kenneth J. Jaffe) offers an interdisciplinary approach to child advocacy, nurturing key skills through a proven six-step process that has been used to train child advocates and create social change around...
by Dr. Andrew Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The wide-ranging contexts in which counselling and psychotherapy is now practiced means clients present with a range of risks that therapists have to respond to. Risk is an ever-present issue for counsellors and psychotherapists and, in an increasingly litigious culture, the need for trainees to develop...
by Joel Vos, Ron Roberts, Dr. James Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
At a time of huge pressures on mental health services, this highly topical, broad-ranging and thought-provoking analysis of the mental health crisis examines the current challenges in mental health service delivery and access using a range of perspectives (political, economic, and cultural, organisational...
by Cristina Bottone
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Il presente testo propone una rappresentazione delle ragioni di una critica evolutiva sulla complessa interazione tra morale soggettiva, etica, deontologia professionale e responsabilità giuridiche nell’odierno esercizio della professione di Assistente sociale.
Esso evidenzia come la dottrina in...
Mémoire et vieillissement
Actes du 6e Congrès, Paris, les 28 et 29 janvier 1991
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1991
La Fondation Nationale de Gérontologie, reconnue comme Établissement d’utilité publique, a pour mission de « rechercher les causes, les modalités et les conséquences du vieillissement, déterminer et faire connaître les méthodes de prévention, de traitement et de rééducation appropriées,...
Soigner les enfants violents
Traitement, prévention, enjeux
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2012
L’actualité très récente fait écho au nombre croissant, constaté dans les services de pédopsychiatrie et de protection de l’enfance, d’enfants toujours plus jeunes exerçant une violence qui va en s’aggravant, à caractère sadique et perverse, apparemment inaccessible au sentiment de...
by Brigitte Camdessus, Michel Christophe Kiener, Jean-Pierre Rosenczveig
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1992
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1992
Dans la France d’aujourd’hui, des enfants sont encore victimes de violences par des membres de leur famille. Cela paraît difficile à admettre dans un pays civilisé, démocratique et économiquement développé, où, depuis plus de cent ans, les lois se sont succédé pour interdire le travail...
Cahiers de l'infirmière (20)
Gérontologie, gériatrie
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Les personnes âgées représentent un pourcentage important de consultants et de malades hospitalisés, un nombre croissant de services de soins leur sont entièrement, ou presque, consacrés. Il était nécessaire qu’un Cahier de l’Infirmière traite de gérontologie, science du vieillissement,...
Promouvoir les pratiques professionnelles
Établissements, dispositifs et réseaux sociaux et médico-sociaux
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2011
La réforme de l'action sociale engagée depuis plusieurs années a conduit à l'émergence de nouvelles pratiques professionnelles dans les établissements et services. Les professionnels ne sont plus soit des cliniciens soit des gestionnaires. Il leur faut assumer leurs compétences dans des environnements...
Pathologie périarticulaire par hypersollicitation professionnelle
Membres supérieurs
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1993
La répétitivité de certains gestes professionnels, leur exécution en poste forcé ou à l’aide d’outils mal adaptés sollicitent de façon exagérée les éléments périarticulaires entraînant des affections d’expression clinique variée. Le concept d’hypersollicitation et les définitions...
When Generations Collide
Who They Are. Why They Clash. How to Solve the Generational Puzzle at Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
If your workplace feels like a battle zone and colleagues sometimes act like adversaries, you ore not alone. Today four generations glare at one another across the conference table, and the potential for conflict and confusion has never been greater.
Traditionalist employees with their "heads...
Introduction to Social Work
An Advocacy-Based Profession
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
The best-selling Introduction to Social Work by Lisa E. Cox, Carolyn J. Tice, and Dennis D. Long takes students to the root of the social work profession by covering its history, practice settings, and career paths within a unique advocacy framework. This advocacy practice and policy model comprised...
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
"Urgently required reading." —People
"Deeply affecting... Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative." —The New Yorker
"Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria...and her book is ultimately a story of hope." —Newsweek
Adrift...