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Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook
by Susan Lukas  Synopsis Intended to help therapists and beginning students organize their approach to the initial phase of treatment, this book offers all the necessary tools for gathering information from the client and provides a framework for thinking about that information...
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Parental Alienation - How To Understand and Address Parental Alienation Resulting From Acrimonious Divorce Or Separation
by Book News Annotation A UK forensic psychologist applies the concept of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) to child custody disputes. After defining PAS as a disorder involving purposeful alienation of a child against a parent, Lowenstein discusses its clinical signs...
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Child Welfare Research
by Duncan (edt) Lindsey Publisher Comments Research has already been a significant factor in child welfare policy in recent years, but this essential new volume demonstrates that it has taken a leading role in the field to spur and guide change. In the incisive chapters gathered here, some of the...
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Residential Child Care and Its Alternatives: International Perspectives
by Friedhelm (edt) Peters Publisher Comments This book effectively demonstrates the need for a holistic and professional approach to child and youth care. The Federation Internationale des Communautes Educatives has produced this book to provide guidelines, new developments, and concrete...
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Publisher Comments Since its creation in the 1980s, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has gradually become a common and accepted treatment option for many mental health professionals. With its emphasis on client strengths and short-term treatment, SFBT is well suited...
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Street-level Leadership (98 Edition)
by Janet C. Vinzant Publisher Comments Examining public service from the perspective of the worker, this book provides a new framework for understanding the roles and responsibilities of front-line public servants and assessing the appropriateness of their actions. Public employees who work...
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Helping America's Homeless: Emergency Shelter or Affordable Housing
by Martha R. Burt Book News Annotation Longtime Urban Institute researcher Martha Burt and her co-authors provide an in-depth analysis of homelessness, exploring issues such as how many homeless people there are in America, where they are, why they became homeless, how long their...
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Critical Issues in Child Welfare (03 Edition)
by Joan Shireman Publisher Comments What role can and should social work play in child welfare services? Responding to what many consider a crisis in the child welfare system, Critical Issues in Child Welfare is a comprehensive overview of the policies, programs, and practices that define...
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Ghost Girl
by Torey L Hayden Publisher Comments Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world--until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey...
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The Encyclopedia of Social Work (Encyclopedia of Social Work)
by Terry Mizrahi Publisher Comments A new, completely updated, revised and expanded 20th edition of this essential work coming February 2008 -- Order now and take advantage of our special prepublication price! Oxford University Press and The National Association of Social Workers are proud...
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Community Organizing and Community Building for Health (2ND 05 Edition)
by Meredith Minkler Synopsis As public health problems such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, violence, and environmental toxins become an ever greater part of our national landscape, grassroots public health work has become all the more important. This updated and revised edition of a...
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Negotiating the Therapeutic Alliance: A Relational Treatment Guide
by Jeremy D. Safran Publisher Comments A half-century of psychotherapy research has shown that the quality of the therapeutic alliance is the most robust predictor of treatment success. This unique book provides a systematic framework for negotiating ruptures and strains in the therapeutic...
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Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research
by Albert R. (edt) Roberts Publisher Comments As a result of the growing amount of acute crisis events portrayed in the media that impact the lives of the general public, interest in crisis intervention, response teams, management, and stabilization has grown tremendously in the past decade. However,...
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Heart Knows Something Different Teenage Voices From the Foster Care System : Youth Communication (96 Edition)
by Al Desetta (ed.) Desetta Synopsis How well can a bureaucracy replace the family? For the more than 450,000 children living in foster care, this question is crucial. Yet, when the public tries to peer into this largely hidden world, administrators frequently invoke the need for...
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The Domains and Demands of School Social Work Practice
by Michael S. Kelly Publisher Comments School social work enters its second century as a profession still conflicted about its central mission. Are school social workers meant to be in-house clinicians providing services to kids in need, or are they meant to be involved in program development...
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Human Services in Contemporary America (7TH 08 Edition)
by William R. Burger Publisher Comments HUMAN SERVICES IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA presents a complete overview of the helping field, its available programs, and the practical skills you can use in your career. The author presents the history and practice of human services through the lens of a...
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Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy (2ND 07 Edition)
by Joel Blau, Blau Publisher Comments The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy reinvents the contemporary social welfare policy textbook. Organized around the explicit premise that every kind of social work practice embodies a social welfare policy, the book develops three types of knowledge...
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Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, Social Work Practice
by William (edt) Rowe Publisher Comments The Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Social Welfare, Volume 3: Social Work Practice features contributions from leading international researchers and practitioners and presents the most comprehensive, in-depth source of information on the field...
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Community and the Social Worker (3RD 01 Edition)
by Phillip Fellin Publisher Comments This text is intended to contribute to an understanding of human behavior in the social environment by providing social work students with an introduction to American communities. The primary focus is on local communities of place. Attention is also...
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International Social Work : Professional Action in an Interdependent World (01 - Old Edition)
by Lynne M. Healy Publisher Comments International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World is a comprehensive introduction that places social work history, practice, policy, and education within an international perspective. Two main themes-global interdependence and...
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