Human Services category: 778 books

Anu Peshawaria has over the years rendered a yeoman service to the immigrant community in the United States, particularly by taking up women’s issues. She has handled a large number of international family law cases and got legal status for numerous families in the United States by strongly supporting...

Written for parents and educators, this guide explains the latest neuroscience research regarding how a child's brain works and how to nurture children for optimal development.

Helping Relationships with Older Adults: From Theory to Practice examines the fundamental theoretical perspectives of the aging process with an emphasis on the healthy aspects of aging. Taking a comprehensive approach, author Adele Williams addresses various therapeutic methods as she highlights the...

Senel Poyrazli's and Chalmer Thompson's International Case Studies in Mental Healthpresents a variety of global cases from both developed and developing countries, detailing descriptions of the people who are seeking help to eliminate their distress and of the exceptional practitioners who provide...

***Shifting our thinking to help break the cycle of bullying *** We all know bullying impacts the academic and emotional lives of our young people. We see it in our schools and hear about it in the news. Why is it still happening? Often it’s because we fail to address the individuals at...

Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling presents a broad overview of the field of clinical mental health and provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully put theory into practice in real-world settings. Drawing from their experience as clinicians, authors Joshua C. Watson...

« Les adolescentes anorexiques m’ont toujours fasciné par leur authenticité et leur force de caractère. Mais, en raison de la complexité de leur situation, de l’attention qu’elles requièrent et du désarroi de leurs parents, toute intervention professionnelle est source de doutes et d’interrogations....

Triple mind chess is how some have described this art-book that uses Pop culture iconography, syllabication, phonemes, articulatory code, and phonological processing. Sublexical to say the very least. The book does have a story, however the true exercise and excitement in this work, B.S., as one will...

This bestselling classic has guided thousands of students and practitioners step-by-step through the skills and theory of the person-centred approach. Fully updated, this Third Edition includes numerous new exercises and case studies, a thoroughly-revised chapter on recent debates and developments,...

`This book offers a truly engaging "read". The writing style is good and it gives the reader a wide range of perspectives, from the meta-theoretical to the concrete practical experience of clients and counsellors.... David Rennie's book serves to continue the development as well as the exposition...

Are you sometimes challenged by how to apply ethical principles in your own practice? Looking to understand what ethical practice can look like from different theoretical standpoints? Linda Finlay takes you on an exploration of ethical therapeutic practice. She highlights how therapeutic decisions...

Cet ouvrage, fruit d'une étroite collaboration entre enseignants-chercheurs et praticiens appartenant à différentes institutions, regroupe les principales communications présentées à Besançon en octobre 2013 lors d'un colloque organisé par le laboratoire C3S autour du thème : L'Intervention...

Focusing on family violence worldwide, Family Violence From a Global Perspective: A Strengths-Based Approach draws on the expertise of authors from 16 countries representing 17 cultures to tell the story of domestic violence in their respective parts of the world. This one-of-a-kind edited collection...

The therapeutic relationship in CBT is often reduced to a cursory description of establishing warmth, genuineness and empathy in order to foster a collaborative relationship. This does not reflect the different approaches needed to establish a therapeutic partnership for the wide range of disorders...