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Theory & Practice in Clinical Social Work PDF By:Jerrold R. Brandell Published on 2010-02-09 by SAGE Publications This thoroughly updated resource is the only comprehensive anthology addressing frameworks for treatment, therapeutic modalities, and specialized clinical issues, themes, and dilemmas encountered in clinical social work practice. Editor Jerrold R. Brandell and other leading figures in the field present carefully devised methods, models, and techniques for responding to the needs of an increasingly diverse clientele. Key Features Coverage of the most commonly used theoretical frameworks and systems in social work practice Entirely new chapters devoted to clinical responses to terrorism and natural disasters, clinical case management, neurobiological theory, cross-cultural clinical practice, and research on clinical practice Completely revised chapters on psychopharmacology, dynamic approaches to brief and time-limited clinical social work, and clinical practice with gay ...

Mindfulness and Acceptance in Social Work PDF By:Matthew S. Boone Published on 2014-05-01 by New Harbinger Publications Social work focuses on serving the most vulnerable members of society, and social workers must often address the contextual forces that contribute to human problems. Mindfulness and acceptance are powerful tools for this practice. By offering interventions like dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), social workers can help their clients become more aware and take effective action. In Mindfulness and Acceptance in Social Work, editor and social worker Matthew S. Boone brings together contributions from emerging voices in social work, such as Elana Rosenbaum, Yuk-Lin Renita Wong, and Diana Coholic, along with ACT pioneers Kirk Strosahl, Patricia Robinson, and others. This book focuses not only on mindfulness-based interventions for direct practice, but also on the intersection of mindf...

Pentecostalism and Development PDF By:D. Freeman Published on 2012-09-03 by Springer Development was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question and explore the practical impacts of religion by looking at the developmental consequences of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa, and by contrasting Pentecostal and secular models of change. This Book was ranked at 6 by Google Books for keyword children's aid education and development foundation. Book ID of Pentecostalism and Development's Books is 8GbF6Vk7z0gC, Book which was written byD. Freemanhave ETAG "/j8AoM9mMnw" Book which was published by Springer since 2012-09-03 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781137017253 and ISBN 10 Code is 1137017252 Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "248 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategorySocial Science Book was written in en eBook Vers...

The New Institutionalism in Sociology PDF By:Mary C. Brinton,Victor Nee Published on 2001 by Stanford University Press Institutions play a pivotal role in structuring economic and social transactions, and understanding the foundations of social norms, networks, and beliefs within institutions is crucial to explaining much of what occurs in modern economies. This volume integrates two increasingly visible streams of research\u0097economic sociology and new institutional economics\u0097to better understand how ties among individuals and groups facilitate economic activity alongside and against the formal rules that regulate economic processes via government and law. Reviews |This volume is a welcome addition to the expanding literature on institutional analysis. . . . Besides sociologists, we are afforded the pleasure of contributions from anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, and scholars located in schools of law and education. . . . One of the pleasures of the...

Community Practice Skills PDF By:Dorothy N Gamble,Marie Weil Published on 2009-11-12 by Columbia University Press Dorothy N. Gamble and Marie Weil differentiate among a range of intervention methods to provide a comprehensive and effective guide to working with communities. Presenting eight distinct models grounded in current practice and targeted toward specific goals, Gamble and Weil take an unusually inclusive step, combining their own extensive experience with numerous case and practice examples from talented practitioners in international and domestic settings. The authors open with a discussion of the theories for community work and the values of social justice and human rights, concerns that have guided the work of activists from Jane Addams and Martin Luther King Jr. to Cesar Chavez, Wangari Maathai, and Vandana Shiva. They survey the concepts, knowledge, and perspectives influencing community practice and evaluation strategies. Descriptions of eight practice models follow, inc...

Handbook of Social Work Practice with Vulnerable and Resilient Populations PDF By:Alex Gitterman Published on 2014-05-06 by Columbia University Press When community and family support systems are weak or unavailable, and when internal resources fail, populations that struggle with chronic, persistent, acute, and/or unexpected problems become vulnerable to physical, cognitive, emotional, and social deterioration. Yet despite numerous risk factors, a large number of vulnerable people do live happy and productive lives. This best-selling handbook examines not only risk and vulnerability factors in disadvantaged populations but also resilience and protective strategies for managing and overcoming adversity. This third edition reflects new demographic data, research findings, and theoretical developments and accounts for changing economic and political realities, including immigration and health care policy reforms. Contributors have expanded their essays to include practice with individual...

From Neurons to Neighborhoods PDF By:Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development Published on 2000-11-13 by National Academies Press How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of |expertise.| The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the first months and years-have reached the popular media. How can we use our burgeoning knowledge to assure the well-being of all young children, for their own sake as well as for the sake of our nation? Drawing from new findings, this book presents important conclusions about nature-versus-nurture, the impact of being born into a working family, the effect of politics on programs for children, the costs and benefits of intervention, and other issues. The committee ...

From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse PDF By:Christopher M. Span Published on 2012-04-01 by UNC Press Books In the years immediately following the Civil War--the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi--there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them. From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse is the first comprehensive examination of Mississippi's politics and policies of postwar racial education. The primary debate centered on whether schools for African Americans (mostly freedpeople) should seek to develop blacks as citizens, train them to be free but subordinate laborers, or produce some other outcome. African Americans envisioned schools established by and for themselves as a primary means of achieving independence, equality, political empowerment, and some degree of social and economic mobility--in essence, full citizenship. Most northerners assisting freedpeople regarded such expectations as unrealistic an...

Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth PDF By:Institute of Medicine,National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Evaluation of Children's Health Published on 2004-10-18 by National Academies Press Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive gains have been made in lowering rates of infant mortality and morbidity from infectious diseases and accidental causes, improved access to health care, and reduction in the effects of environmental contaminants such as lead. Yet major questions still remain about how to assess the status of children's health, what factors should be monitored, and the appropriate measurement tools that should be used. Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health provides a detailed examination of the information about children's health that is needed to help policy...

The Handbook of Community Practice PDF By:Marie Weil,Michael S. Reisch,Mary L. Ohmer Published on 2012-08-29 by SAGE Publications The Second Edition of The Handbook of Community Practice is expanded and updated with a major global focus and serves as a comprehensive guidebook of community practice grounded in social justice and human rights. It utilizes community and practice theories and encompasses community development, organizing, planning, social change, policy practice, program development, service coordination, organizational cultural competency, and community-based research in relation to global poverty and community empowerment. This is also the first community practice text to provide combined and in-depth treatment of globalization and international development practice issues—including impacts on communities in the United States and on international development work. The Handbook is grounded in participatory and empowerment practices, including social change, social and eco...

Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare PDF By:Marian S Harris Published on 2014-04-15 by Columbia University Press The number of children of color entering the child welfare system in the United States is disproportionately high. Not only are children of color removed from parental custody and placed in care more often than their white counterparts, but they also remain in care longer, receive fewer services, and have less contact with the caseworkers assigned to them. This book identifies the practice and policy changes required to successfully address the unequal treatment of children of color in the child welfare system and their implications for social work education, caseworker training, and institutional change. It critiques many of the existing social welfare acts and policies in terms of their treatment of children of color, and it provides best practices for each decision point in the child welfare process and for cultural competency measures and training. The text offers ...

Children, Families and Communities, Fourth Edition PDF By:Jennifer Bowes,Rebekah Grace,Kerry Hodge Published on 2012-11-01 by OUP Australia & New Zealand Children, Families and Communities, 4e, looks at the ways in which children, families and communities influence each other and how different contexts affect them all. There is a focus on research and theoretical grounding. Each chapter highlights both the contexts and consequences of the different subject areas. This Book was ranked at 12 by Google Books for keyword children's aid education and development foundation. Book ID of Children, Families and Communities, Fourth Edition's Books is HyFRLgEACAAJ, Book which was written byJennifer Bowes,Rebekah Grace,Kerry Hodgehave ETAG "Md/NBdiwkDI" Book which was published by OUP Australia & New Zealand since 2012-11-01 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780195576740 and ISBN 10 Code is 0195576748 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is f...

Crime, Deviance and Doping PDF By:M. Yar Published on 2014-01-06 by Springer Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing upon sociological and criminological perspectives, it illuminates how fallen stars use confessional acts of story-telling to seek forgiveness, vindication and redemption. This Book was ranked at 32 by Google Books for keyword children's aid education and development foundation. Book ID of Crime, Deviance and Doping's Books is 3iOuAgAAQBAJ, Book which was written byM. Yarhave ETAG "lpwO+GVz6xI" Book which was published by Springer since 2014-01-06 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781137403759 and ISBN 10 Code is 1137403756 Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "106 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategorySocial Science Book was written in en eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is tru...

Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America PDF By:John M. Herrick,Paul H. Stuart Published on 2004-12-15 by SAGE Publications The Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America is a unique reference book that provides readers with basic information about the history of social welfare in North America, including Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Since many themes and issues are similar in the three nations, entries provide comparative information about common as well as distinctive concerns and developments. Significant events, influential people, legislation, social problems, and societal responses are described in detail. Editors include specialists in the social welfare history of each nation, and they have collaborated with scholars from a variety of academic disciplines to prepare entries of varying length addressing these issues. Included in each entry are suggestions for further reading that will guide readers to the rich resources available for learnin...

Community Economic Development in Social Work PDF By:Steven D. Soifer,Joseph B. McNeely,Cathy L. Costa,Nancy Pickering-Bernheim Published on 2014-11-11 by Columbia University Press Community economic development (CED) is an increasingly essential factor in the revitalization of low- to moderate-income communities. This cutting-edge text explores the intersection of CED and social work practice, which both focus on the well-being of indigent communities and the empowerment of individuals and the communities in which they live. This unique textbook emphasizes a holistic approach to community building that combines business and real-estate development with a focus on stimulating family self-reliance and community empowerment. The result is an innovative approach to rehabilitating communities in decline while preserving resident demographics. The authors delve deep into the social, political, human, and financial capital involved in effecting change and how race and regional issues can com...

Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 PDF By:National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on the Science of Children Birth to Age 8: Deepening and Broadening the Foundation for Success Published on 2015-07-23 by National Academies Press Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children...

From Formal to Non-Formal PDF By:Igor Ž. Žagar,Polona Kelava Published on 2014-06-19 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing The monograph From Formal to Non-Formal: Education, Learning and Knowledge presents a review of selected aspects of non-formal education and learning, and is written by António Fragoso, Petra Javrh, Polona Kelava, Taja Kramberger, Nives Ličen, Marko Radovan, Drago B. Rotar, Klara Skubic Ermenc, Tadej Vidmar, Igor Ž. Žagar, Tihomir Žiljak and Sabina Žnidaršič Žagar. These authors are all anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, political scientists, education scientists and historians of education. As such, the subject covered is a broad one and reaches into fields that at first glance appear to be very distant from each other. It is precisely this diversity of approaches that offers the best promise of new findings regarding non-formal learning, education and knowledge and that represents a fruitful basis for further reflection on these topics. The monograph thus of...