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Counselling Skills (UK Edition)
by Margaret Hough  Synopsis This text covers eight skills areas in counselling with activities, case studies, glossary and further reading....
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Home Visiting: Procedures for Helping Families
by Barbara Hanna Wasik Synopsis They have done a superb job of defining the issues of home visiting, addressing the new issues as well as updating previous concerns, and condensing the vast literature into manageable bites. It is well documented, cited, and draws from a wealth of...
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Skills for Direct Practice in Social Work
by Ruth R. Middleman Publisher Comments Thoroughly examines sixty-three fundamental skills needed by social workers dealing with individuals and groups. Middleman and Wood define the skills, illustrate them in vignettes, and relate them to pertinent literature....
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Intervention Research: Design & Development for Human Service (Haworth Social Work Practice)
by Edwin J. Thomas Book News Annotation Revised versions of papers presented at the National Conference on Intervention Research, held in Los Angeles in March 1989, together with commissioned papers, provide a comprehensive treatment of a developing area of empirical inquiry that aims to...
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Integration of Social Work Practice
by Ruth J. Parsons Publisher Comments Providing a much-needed framework for directing social work practice into the dynamics of social problems, this scholarly text shows students how to approach generalist practice in an integrative way. The authors suggest social problems (i.e., school...
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Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities
by John Lofland Book News Annotation Lofland (sociology emeritus, U. of California, Davis) looks at social movement organizations (SMOs) in detail, focusing on procedures for studying SMOs, propositions and generalities about their reasons for being and reasons for going away, and wider...
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Talking about Domestic Abuse: A Photo Activity Workbook to Develop Communication Between Mothers and Young People
by Cathy Humphreys Publisher Comments Talking About Domestic Abuse is an activity pack for children of nine years and above and adolescents where families have experienced domestic abuse, to help and encourage them to open up to their mothers about their distressing experiences. Based on the...
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Practicing Social Justice / John J. Stretch ... [Et Al.], Editors
by John J. Stretch Book News Annotation Fourteen articles describe social work practice as developed at Saint Louis University's Center for Social Justice. Programs designed to address questions of race and poverty, the economic well-being of children, homelessness, women ex-offenders...
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Cops, Teachers, Counselors : Stories From the Front Lines of Public Service (04 Edition)
by Steven Maynard-moody Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index....
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Electronic Tools for Social Work Practice and Education
by Hy Resnick Book News Annotation Introduces electronic technology and computer games in human services, and reviews individual software programs, for human service professionals and educators. Describes computer games and simulations for use in practice with youth, adults, and the...
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Interdependence
by Al Condeluci Publisher Comments Driven from a values base, Interdependence: The Route to Community is a service system framework that interprets a new approach for the ways in which people relate and the ways our society addresses social issues. Recognizing the limitations of the...
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Values in the Helping Professions
by Adam Barnard Publisher Comments Featuring contributions from key commentators including Lena Dominelli, Sarah Banks, Peter Beresford, Michael Flood and George Ritzer, this diverse text explores an array of concepts and themes that are vital to our understanding of the value base in...
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Residential Child Care: Links with Families and Peers
by Mono Chakrabarti Book News Annotation Examines care policies and individual strategies which involve families and other network members in the planning and care of children looked after in residential units and children's homes. Provides guidelines of how to broaden the focus of...
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Maltrato a Las Personas Mayores
by Peter Decalmer Publisher Comments Los casos de desatencion, maltrato o negligencia respecto a personas de edad avanzada no son nada nuevo, pero en los ultimos anos la conciencia publica en lo que se refiere a este problema social es cada vez mayor. Como reaccion, han aparecido multiples...
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Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course (Sage Series in Social Work)
by Elizabeth Hutchison Publisher Comments Elizabeth Hutchison's latest edition of Dimensions of Human Behavior is a powerful text that captures our changing and developing lives as we each journey through our own distinct life course. The books call our attention to the importance of the...
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Psychodynamic Social Work (Foundations of Social Work Knowledge)
by Jerrold R. Brandell Publisher Comments A comprehensive guide to psychodynamic clinical practice within a contemporary social work treatment context, this book incorporates a number of different theoretical models in tandem with more than thirty-five diverse case illustrations. Case studies...
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Forming Nation, Framing Welfare
by Gail Lewis Publisher Comments This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of the "the family," it traces some of the crucial historical roots of contemporary social problems and social policy in...
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Essentials of Testing and Assessment - a Practical Guide for Counselors, Social Workers, and Psychologists (06 Edition)
by Edward S. Neukrug Publisher Comments Comprehensive and easy to read, Neukrug and Fawcett's text introduces readers to the concepts and applications of assessment and testing. Case vignettes, samples of real tests, and additional activities and exercises increase understanding and reduce...
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Sage Series on Violence Against Women #12: Coordinating Community Responses to Domestic Violence: Lessons from Duluth and Beyond
by Melanie Shepard Synopsis This book provides a comprehensive guide to the development of a coordinated community response to domestic violence based on the internationally known Duluth Model. Drawing from the experiences of practitioners, scholars, and researchers in the field...
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Groupwork Volume Three
by A. Brown Synopsis Since its first issue in 1988, much interesting and inspiring material has been published in "Groupwork," Most of this still says much of use to today's groupworkers, and there is a steady stream of requests for reprints. We are therefore making back...
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