Human Services category: 778 books
Safety At Work:
Skills to Calm and De-escalate Aggressive & Mentally Ill Individuals - For All Involved in Threat Assessment & Threat Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Corporate Security, Human Resources, Executive Protection, and Loss Prevention Professionals must deal with individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance use disorders on a frequent basis. Ellis Amdur and William Cooper offer these officials a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves,...
The Undesirables
Inside Nauru
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
When it comes to asylum seekers on Nauru, we learn only what the Australian government wants us to know. In the wake of The Nauru Files, see eyewitness accounts of what is happening inside the Nauru detention centre through The Undesirables. Mark Isaacs went to work inside the Nauru detention...
Dancing With Dynamite
Celebrating Against The Odds
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
The winner of the 2011 Grace Irwin Award for Best Christian Book of the Year. In the follow-up to his best-seller Bent Hope: A Street Journal, Tim Huff invites readers to join him on a soulful journey into a variety of worlds that most people would describe as painful, awkward, peculiar and sometimes...
by Emmanuel Jean Francois, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Nonprofit organizations face fierce competition for funding, especially during times of financial crisis. In order to effectively further their goals and make a long-term impact in the communities they serve, these organizations must remain financially viable and sustainable. This book equips students...
The Big Necessity
The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
"One smart book . . . delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name." —Newsweek
Acclaimed as "extraordinary" (The New York Times) and "a classic" (Los Angeles Times), The Big Necessity is on its way to removing the...
Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy
Intimacy, Intuition, and the Search for Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy integrates concepts of positive psychology and strengths based therapy into existential therapy. Turning existential therapy on its head, this exciting, all-new title approaches the theory from a positive, rather than the traditional deficit model....
The Task Planner
An Intervention Resource for Human Service Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2000
A comprehensive, A-to-Z set of task planners for more than one hundred psychosocial problems from alcoholism and anxiety to domestic violence and sexual abuse. Each entry includes a menu of actions the client can undertake to affect resolution, a guide to the practitioner's role in facilitating these...
Social Work Case Management
Case Studies From the Frontlines
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Social Work Case Management: Case Studies From the Frontlines by Michael J. Holosko is an innovative book that equips readers with the knowledge and skills they need to be effective case management practitioners in a variety of health and human service organizations. A must-read for students and professionals...
by Ms Ann Casement
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
`This book offers a fresh and full introduction to Jung's psychology - it will be appreciated by many, from novice counsellors to the well-read analyst who will find... that there is much to learn about C G Jung' - Journal of Analytical Psychology
`Ann Casement achieves an almost impossible...
Attachment and Dynamic Practice
An Integrative Guide for Social Workers and Other Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Contemporary attachment theory both enriches our understanding of human development and informs clinical practice. Examining the relational bonds between young children and their caregivers, it traces its origins to several scientific and social fields, most notably psychoanalysis, social work, behaviorism,...
by Emmy van Deurzen
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Offering a concrete framework and practical methods for working from an existential perspective, the bestselling Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy is now in its third edition.
Central to the book is the belief that many of our problems arise out of the essential paradoxes of human existence,...
by Cathrine Sneed, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 1995
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Delivering a powerful message that is moving, hopeful, and urgent, Cathrine Sneed shows that bringing people out of the jails and off the streets...
Community Practice Skills
Local to Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
In a world where genocide, hunger, poverty, war, and disease persist and where richer nations often fail to act to address these problems or act too late, a prerequisite to achieving even modest social justice goals is to clarify the meaning of competing discourses on the concept. Throughout history,...