Providing a framework for culturally competent practice with children and families in child maltreatment cases, this book offers vital knowledge and tools to help professionals from any background play a more positive, effective role in the lives of diverse children and families.
A guide to understanding and implementing distance education components into social work. This book explains how to administer DE components, discusses the adjustments and rewards of the DE teaching experience, evaluates the benefits for both students and teachers, and addresses the issues in the field.
Combines theory and practical approaches to help you ensure life satisfaction and successful aging in clients at any stage in life and in any setting, whether you are working with them individually, as a couple, or in a small group. Elucidates how reminiscence can be used as a dynamic tool.
Presenting practical strategies for violence assessment and prevention that are grounded in solid empirical research, this book helps social work practitioners and students to give treatment to aggressive clients while reducing violence risks.
Designed for students of social work, this text integrates evidence-based practice with human behaviour and social development theories. The selected readings are designed to provide a brief overview of each theoretical model; and discuss how empiricism can be applied to the modes.
This state-of-the-art compendium of information and referral systems emphasizes technology and also addresses operational issues, staffing, training, standards and new challenges in an expanding ageing society.
Provides an introduction to law and legal processes and their relation to social work practice. Using Clinton's Welfare Reform Act of 1996, this title offers a conceptual framework to illustrate how sociolegal problems emerge in the welfare state. It also presents the skills base necessary for effective social work response.
A Psychoeducational Approach for Individuals and Couples
This clinician's manual and workbook were developed to provide alternatives in the efforts to reduce the national epidemic of spouse/partner maltreatment. The authors describe a model incorporating several theories and approaches of psychotherapy, while focusing on abuse as a primary issue.
Anyone who is bewildered and morally affronted by his or her own pain will do well to follow Dr. Spufford along the painful steps of her austere but joyful pilgrimage.--W.H. Vanstone
