Presents an overview of the contemporary American mental health system and its impact on clients and social workers. This textbook examines the lack of understanding of the roots of mental illness, the challenges in classification of mental disorders, and difficult behavioural manifestations of mental illness.
Opportunities and Challenges for Professional Practice
Provides the knowledge and skills social workers need when navigating the complex health care environment, while having to continuously adapt to change. Substantially revised and updated, this fourth edition delivers a wealth of new information reflecting the rapidly evolving health care landscape.
This fully updated manual offers a basis for understanding and responding to loss and grief - experiences which can present challenges for care professionals as well as those directly affected.
This fully updated manual offers an invaluable resource for individuals and organisations seeking to develop an understanding of workplace equality and diversity and how it can help a company to thrive.
This fully updated manual offers a complete training programme for individuals and organisations committed to developing genuine leadership as a foundation for effective, humane workplaces.
Delivering the first comprehensive analysis of elder justice and its implications for policy and practice, this book offers an approach that ensures the rights, safety, and security of all older adults. It explains the antecedents of elder justice, and describes the opportunities for achieving more comprehensive public policy.
A leading course text and practitioner resource for over 20 years--now revised and updated--this book presents developmentally and culturally informed methods for helping children in family, school, and community settings. Nancy Boyd Webb offers vital guidance and tools for practitioners. The text demonstrates research-based strategies for working ......
How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Compet
Tens of thousands of clinicians have used this book--now revised and expanded with 50% new material--to plan and organize effective interventions for children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma. The Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) framework can be used with children, parents, and other caregivers in a wide range of ......
Written for both students and practitioners of gerontology, along with all professionals involved in the well-being of older adults, this highly accessible book provides a current and detailed description and analysis of local to global services for older people with or without cognitive, physical, or social needs.
