Myers: 1256 books
by Scott Myers-Lipton
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This is the first practical social change text devoted to students working in an academic environment. While there are many books about community organizing and social change, there are no college texts focusing on how to provide real-world experience with academic content taking into consideration...
Doctors’ Marriages
A Look at the Problems and Their Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In marriage, partners bring together preexisting psychological and cul tural histories which may be quite disparate. The idea that "love con quers all" does not account for the complexities involved in the development of a contemporary partnership. Societal changes over the past few...
Ending Extreme Inequality
An Economic Bill of Rights to Eliminate Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Poverty and inequality are at record levels. Today, forty-seven million Americans live in poverty, while the median is in decline. The top 20 percent now controls 89 percent of all wealth. These conditions have renewed demands for a new economic Bill of Rights, an idea proposed by F. D. Roosevelt,...
by Karen A. Randolph, Laura L. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
The complexity of social problems necessitates that social work researchers understand and apply multivariate statistical methods in their investigations. In this pocket guide, the authors introduce readers to three of the more frequently used multivariate methods in social work research with an emphasis...
Retirement Counseling
A Practical Guide for Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Danny Myers
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Economics and Property provides a clear and easy-to-read introduction to any property economics module in a degree leading to a profession in real estate, surveying, construction and related courses in the built environment. It focuses on the core principles to provide the economic background necessary...
Disaster Mental Health Services
A Primer for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Disaster mental health is a growing field of practice designed to help victims and relief workers learn to effectively cope with the extreme stresses they will face in the aftermath of a disaster. The goal of disaster mental health is to prevent the development of long-term, negative psychological...
Creating Engaged Employees
It's Worth the Investment
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Maintaining high employee engagement is key to business success.
Research shows that many members of today’s workforce feel overworked and underappreciated—all factors that attribute to high turnover, low customer satisfaction, increased incidences of health and safety problems, and low...
Easy Self-Help Acupressure for Grown-Ups: Daily Clean Your House Flow for Work, Home and Life
Easy Self-Help Acupressure, #3
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Easy Self-Help Acupressure for Grown-Ups describes the Daily Clean Your House Flow, which is a series of easy-to-follow acupressure poses that is a win-win for everyone! Developing a regular, daily practice of the Daily Flow creates an environment where adults can be more carefree, happier and more...
Social work with sex offenders
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. It addresses the emotional impacts of ‘facing the sex offender’, the importance of values and ethics in practice, and reviews popular and academic understandings of sex...
by Tim Goddard, Randy Myers
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Activists, policymakers, and scholars in the US have called for policy reform and evidence-based efforts to decrease the number of people in jail and prison, improve hostile police–community relations, and rollback the "tough on crime" movement. Given that poor people, particularly poor...
Working with Violence and Confrontation Using Solution Focused Approaches
Creative Practice with Children, Young People and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
An authoritative, interdisciplinary book which outlines how solution focused practice is particularly effective in addressing violent behaviour in clients and service users, encompassing work with both adults and children.
Solution focused approaches have been used successfully with a range...
by Steve Myers, Judith Milner, Patrick O'byrne
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Assessment is a crucial social work task. Yet there is so much to consider that it can sometimes feel overwhelming. This core text book gives you structured, practical guidance on how to approach this vital professional skill. In a clear and accessible style, the authors provide both the theory behind...
Multivariate Methods of Representing Relations in R for Prioritization Purposes
Selective Scaling, Comparative Clustering, Collective Criteria and Sequenced Sets
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
This monograph is multivariate, multi-perspective and multipurpose. We intend to be innovatively integrative through statistical synthesis. Innovation requires capacity to operate in ways that are not ordinary, which means that conventional computations and generic graphics will not meet the needs...