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Resiliency Enhancement: Putting the Strength Perspective Into Social Work Practice
ISBN: 9780231118002 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients. Contributors to this volume show how social workers can use interventions to enhance those resiliency factors.
This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths persp...
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653,69 |
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Resiliency Enhancement: Putting the Strength Perspective Into Social Work Practice
ISBN: 9780231118019 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients. Contributors to this volume show how social workers can use interventions to enhance those resiliency factors.
This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths persp...
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211,30 |
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Culturally Diverse Parent-Child and Family Relationships: A Guide for Social Workers and Other Practitioners
ISBN: 9780231118187 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an increasingly diverse social environment, misunderstandings often arise between practitioners in the helping professions and clients from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. This book investigates the culturally specific beliefs and child-rearing practices of five major racial/ethnic groups: African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans. Analyses of case vignettes illustrate the book's dual focus on the practitioners' own views in addition to those of their culturally diverse clients. Guidelines offer suggestions for effective engagement and...
In an increasingly diverse social environment, misunderstandings often arise between practitioners in the helping professions and clients from differe...
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342,85 |
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Science and Social Work: A Critical Appraisal
ISBN: 9780231118255 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science and Social Work is a critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice. It identifies the major ways in which social workers have drawn upon scientific knowledge and techniques, placing each one in historical perspective by explaining the nature of the problems it was designed to solve and the philosophical, political, and practical questions it raised. Kirk and Reid offer a balanced appraisal of the promises, accomplishments, and limits of such approaches, demonstrating how the fruits of scientific research can...
Science and Social Work is a critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice...
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205,92 |
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They Still Pick Me Up When I Fall: The Role of Caring in Youth Development and Community Life
ISBN: 9780231118552 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a call to action to parents, youth workers, policymakers--anyone who works for and worries about the next generation--to recognize and promote the values of caring in public and private life. It is about teenagers--those who no longer need the care given to babies and children but who still need support and guidance. Diana Mendley Rauner offers a rare focus on youth development as a process of experiencing care and learning social responsibility. Much public discussion of youth focuses on individual achievement and a limited set of markers of success, on the one hand, and...
This book is a call to action to parents, youth workers, policymakers--anyone who works for and worries about the next generation--to recognize and pr...
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200,52 |
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Family-Centered Policies and Practices: International Implications
ISBN: 9780231121064 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global context. By including a conceptual framework as well as practice components, the authors offer an original multimodal approach toward understanding family-centered policy practice from an international perspective. It provides grassroots strategies for activists and practical guides for both students and practitioners and includes cutting-edge interpretations of the impact of globalization on families, social workers, and other helping professionals and...
Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global context. ...
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553,44 |
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Family-Centered Policies and Practices: International Implications
ISBN: 9780231121071 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global context. By including a conceptual framework as well as practice components, the authors offer an original multimodal approach toward understanding family-centered policy practice from an international perspective. It provides grassroots strategies for activists and practical guides for both students and practitioners and includes cutting-edge interpretations of the impact of globalization on families, social workers, and other helping professionals and...
Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global context. ...
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205,71 |
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Tangled Relationships: Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services
ISBN: 9780231121163 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should a therapist counsel a former lover or accept a client's gift? If so, has a boundary been crossed? Some boundary issues, like beginning a sexual relationship with a client, are obvious pitfalls to avoid, but what about more subtle issues, like hugging a client or disclosing personal information to a client? What are the boundaries of maintaining a friendship with a former client or the relative of a client? When do conflicts of interest overburden the client-practitioner relationship? Frederic Reamer, a leading authority on professional ethics, offers a definitive and up-to-date...
Should a therapist counsel a former lover or accept a client's gift? If so, has a boundary been crossed? Some boundary issues, like beginning a sexual...
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653,69 |
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Tangled Relationships: Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services
ISBN: 9780231121170 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should a therapist counsel a former lover or accept a client's gift? If so, has a boundary been crossed? Some boundary issues, like beginning a sexual relationship with a client, are obvious pitfalls to avoid, but what about more subtle issues, like hugging a client or disclosing personal information to a client? What are the boundaries of maintaining a friendship with a former client or the relative of a client? When do conflicts of interest overburden the client-practitioner relationship? Frederic Reamer, a leading authority on professional ethics, offers a definitive and up-to-date...
Should a therapist counsel a former lover or accept a client's gift? If so, has a boundary been crossed? Some boundary issues, like beginning a sexual...
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211,30 |
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Living Through Loss: Interventions Across the Life Span
ISBN: 9780231122467 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living Through Loss is the first book to identify the many ways in which people experience loss over the course of life and to discuss the interventions most effective at each stage of life. The authors' starting point is that loss comes in many forms and can include not only suffering the death of a person one loves but also giving birth to a child with disabilities, living with chronic illness, or being abused, assaulted, or otherwise traumatized. They approach loss from the perspective of the resilience model, which acknowledges the capacity of people to integrate loss into their...
Living Through Loss is the first book to identify the many ways in which people experience loss over the course of life and to discuss the inte...
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653,69 |
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Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness
ISBN: 9780231122733 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As case management has replaced institutional care for mental health patients in recent decades, case management theory has grown in complexity and variety of models. But how are these models translated into real experience? How do caseworkers use both textbook and practical knowledge to assist clients with managing their medication and their money? Using ethnographic and historical-sociological methods, Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness uncovers unexpected differences between written and oral accounts of case management in practice. In the process, it...
As case management has replaced institutional care for mental health patients in recent decades, case management theory has grown in complexity and va...
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164,98 |
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Social Work and Human Rights: A Foundation for Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780231123082 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As social work students and practitioners encounter the term "human rights" with greater frequency, there is a pressing need for them to understand its meaning, especially in contradistinction to the related concept of "social justice." This book is an overview of human rights ideas and laws for social workers that stresses the importance of human rights in all types of social work policy and practice. The volume first traces the history and development of human rights from the passage of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and subsequent international documents....
As social work students and practitioners encounter the term "human rights" with greater frequency, there is a pressing need for them to understand it...
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734,61 |
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Social Work and Human Rights: A Foundation for Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780231123099 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As social work students and practitioners encounter the term "human rights" with greater frequency, there is a pressing need for them to understand its meaning, especially in contradistinction to the related concept of "social justice." This book is an overview of human rights ideas and laws for social workers that stresses the importance of human rights in all types of social work policy and practice. The volume first traces the history and development of human rights from the passage of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and subsequent international documents....
As social work students and practitioners encounter the term "human rights" with greater frequency, there is a pressing need for them to understand it...
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180,44 |
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Empowerment Practice with Families in Distress
ISBN: 9780231124621 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 workers can, however, assist others as they empower themselves. This book integrates time-honored approaches with today's more modest goals, mindful of what empowerment can and cannot do. Synthesizing several theoretical supports--the strengths perspective, system theory, theories of family...
For more than 150 years, empowering practices have been used by social workers in their work with families, but the techniques of today differ signifi...
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623,82 |
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Empowerment Practice with Families in Distress
ISBN: 9780231124638 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 workers can, however, assist others as they empower themselves. This book integrates time-honored approaches with today's more modest goals, mindful of what empowerment can and cannot do. Synthesizing several theoretical supports--the strengths perspective, system theory, theories of family...
For more than 150 years, empowering practices have been used by social workers in their work with families, but the techniques of today differ signifi...
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195,91 |
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Social Work Practice with Ethnically and Racially Diverse Nursing Home Residents and Their Families
ISBN: 9780231125321 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first of its kind, this volume is a critical companion for service providers who work with African American, American Indian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican elders and their families in nursing homes and other care settings. These groups are likely to use nursing homes in larger numbers as cultural shifts, such as higher divorce rates and increased outside-of-home employment for females, transform traditional family dynamics. Contributors are experience social workers, and most belong to the specific ethnic or racial group that is the focus of their...
The first of its kind, this volume is a critical companion for service providers who work with African American, American Indian, Chinese, Italian, Ja...
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599,74 |
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Social Work Practice with Ethnically and Racially Diverse Nursing Home Residents and Their Families
ISBN: 9780231125338 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first of its kind, this volume is a critical companion for service providers who work with African American, American Indian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican elders and their families in nursing homes and other care settings. These groups are likely to use nursing homes in larger numbers as cultural shifts, such as higher divorce rates and increased outside-of-home employment for females, transform traditional family dynamics. Contributors are experience social workers, and most belong to the specific ethnic or racial group that is the focus of their...
The first of its kind, this volume is a critical companion for service providers who work with African American, American Indian, Chinese, Italian, Ja...
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144,35 |
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Social Work Practice: Concepts, Processes, and Interviewing
ISBN: 9780231125475 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Work Practice synthesizes the latest theories and research findings in social work and related fields and demonstrates how this information is used in working with clients. Because the interview is the medium in which much of social work practice takes place, learning the processes and skills to conduct a productive interview is a critical part of social work education.
Social Work Practice synthesizes the latest theories and research findings in social work and related fields and demonstrates how this informat...
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195,91 |
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Psychodynamic Social Work
ISBN: 9780231126366 / Angielski / Twarda / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 are derived from an assortment of venues, including inpatient and outpatient mental health, family service, residential treatment, corrections, and private practice. Using traditional psychoanalytic theory as a point of departure, Psychodynamic Social Work reflects the richness of current thinking in psychoanalysis and dynamic...
A comprehensive guide to psychodynamic clinical practice within a contemporary social work treatment context, this book incorporates a number of diffe...
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464,87 |
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The Role of Law in Social Work Practice and Administration
ISBN: 9780231126489 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The strong nexus between law and social work is beyond dispute: the law informs day-to-day social work practice and administration, and social workers are employed by the courts. Moreover, they work collaboratively with attorneys in legal aid offices, public defenders'offices, and other law enforcement settings, interviewing clients, preparing reports for use in court, interpreting social science information, and providing consultation on how best to approach client problems. This book addresses the relationship between the professions of social work and law and helps social workers develop...
The strong nexus between law and social work is beyond dispute: the law informs day-to-day social work practice and administration, and social workers...
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572,76 |