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Homeless Children: The Watchers and the Waiters by Jerome Beker
RRP: £49.99£43.50At last, here is a compassionate, humane, and informative volume on the most unique and vulnerable group in our society today--homeless children. Homeless Children: The Watchers and the Waiters is unique because it offers an interdisciplinary approach to... -
Assessment in Residential Care for Children and Youth by Roy Rodenhiser
RRP: £28.99£25.09Residential treatment for children and youth (RTCY) programs not only need to be explored for the efficacy of the programs, but also in the actual assessment of various aspects of those programs. Assessment in Residential Care for Children and Youth... -
Rebuilding Communities: Challenges for Group Work by Harvey J. Bertcher
RRP: £47.99£41.81Rebuilding Communities: Challenges for Group Work is a collection of research and information presented at the 18th Annual Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups. Social workers, students, educators, and practitioners... -
Research on Social Work and Disasters by Calvin L. Streeter
RRP: £31.99£28.33Over the past decade, several major natural disasters have had devastating impacts throughout the United States and the world. Since larger populations now live and work on land vulnerable to various hazards, natural disasters can be expected to affect... -
Researching Families and Communities: Social and Generational Change by Rosalind Edwards
RRP: £135.00£117.28Recent years have seen a concern with how family and community relationships have changed across the generations, whether for better or worse, and particularly how they have been affected by social and economic developments. But how can we think about... -
Nanotechnology in Health Care by Sanjeeb K. Sahoo
RRP: £75.99£66.59Nanotechnologies are among the fastest growing areas of scientific research, and this is expected to have a substantial impact on human health care, especially in biomedical applications and nanomedicine now and in the near future. In the present... -
The Anthropology of Child and Youth Care Work by Jerome Beker
RRP: £96.99£84.05The Anthropology of Child and Youth Care Work presents and illustrates an anthropological model of child and youth care work and explores the associated benefits of such an approach. Author Rivka A. Eisikovits'model enhances workers'on-the-job... -
Rehabilitation: A Post-critical Approach by Barbara Gibson
RRP: £76.99£67.05Rehabilitation is dedicated to helping people not only survive, but also thrive. Despite this complex goal, the organizing principles of rehabilitation still rely on biomedicine to construct disability as a problem of impaired bodies. Rehabilitation... -
Hidden Attractions of Administration: The Peculiar Appeal of Meetings and Documents by Malin Akerstroem
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003108436, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book argues that the expansion of... -
Evidence-Based Practice For Health Professionals Bernadette Howlett 9781284165647
£53.78Evidence Based Practice for Health Professionals, Second Edition is a entry-level textbook for health professional students that explores the basic concepts of evidence-based practice with a clinical emphasis.Book InformationISBN 9781284165647Author... -
New and Expanded Neuropsychosocial Concepts Complementary to Llorens' Developmental Theory: Achieving Growth and Development through Occupation for Neonatal Infants and their Families by Lynne F. LaCorte
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book analyzes and suggests an expansion of Llorens' developmental theory of occupational therapy, applying these concepts in a final schematic model for use by occupational therapists, occupational scientists, and others involved in occupational... -
Cooperative Reference: Social Interaction in the Workplace by Linda S. Katz
RRP: £86.99£83.56Expert advice for more effective teamwork in the library! Cooperative Reference: Social Interaction in the Workplace addresses the need for reference librarians to work together to keep the system running smoothly. This book explores the various means... -
Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity by Katherine H. Hertlein
RRP: £46.99£40.97Help your clients' relationships survive infidelity! In the Handbook of the Clinical Treatment of Infidelity, a panel of seasoned experts reflects on issues central to affairs, and on how to help couples heal and learn from them. First, editors Fred P... -
Military Sexual Trauma: Current Knowledge and Future Directions by Carolyn B. Allard
RRP: £135.00£117.28Military Sexual Trauma: Current Knowledge and Future Directions showcases the work of several prominent military sexual trauma (MST) researchers, scholars, and clinicians from across the United States. A review of existing research and original empirical... -
Young & Homeless In Hollywood by Susan M. Ruddick
RRP: £53.99£46.87Young and Homeless in Hollywood examines the social and spacial dynamics that contributed to the construction of a new social imaginary--"homeless youth"--in the United States during a period of accelerated modernization from the mid 1970s to... -
Power and Conflict Between Doctors and Nurses: Breaking Through the Inner Circle in Clinical Care Maureen A. Coombs 9780415301930
RRP: £48.99£42.66Through observations in three intensive care units, this book draws on the reality of practice to explore how nurses and doctors work in intensive care settings. It examines:* the power held by the competing knowledge bases* the roles of the different... -
Community Informatics: Shaping Computer-Mediated Social Networks by Dave Eagle
RRP: £19.99£14.87Community groups, social support networks, voluntary agencies and government organisations are all actively exploring the potential of the new information and communication technologies to bring about democratic development and renewal. A rich variety of... -
Punishing Violence by Antonia Cretney
RRP: £49.99£43.90It is a common perception that violent crime is on the increase and social surveys record a growing fear of victimisation among the public. Yet not all violence is criminalised, and much criminal violence still goes unreported. Punishing Violence... -
When Race Counts: The Morality of Racial Preference in Britain and America by John Edwards
RRP: £48.99£42.66When Race Counts investigates the use of race-conscious practices in social policy in Britain and America. It questions the distinction between affirmative action and preferential treatment, and evaluates the effectiveness of a range of education and... -
Medical Office Management Christine Malone 9780134868288
RRP: £103.70£92.75For courses in medical clerical and administrative medical assisting.The authoritative guide to the skills and issues of medical office managementMedical Office Management explores the skills needed to manage a medical office and the issues students can... -
The Consequences of Divorce: Economic and Custodial Impact on Children and Adults by Craig Everett
RRP: £32.99£29.16This comprehensive volume brings to light little known implications of legal, economic, and custodial factors following a divorce. The Consequences of Divorce goes beyond the past decade's extensive focus on emotional and social adjustment outcomes to... -
Assessing Competence in Medicine and Other Health Professions Claudio Violato 9781498785082
RRP: £49.99£43.90This comprehensive, yet accessible, text demystifies the challenging area of competence assessement in medicine and the health sciences, providing a clear framework and the tools for anyone working or studying in this area. Written by a single, highly... -
The Allied Health Professions: A Sociological Perspective Susan Nancarrow (Southern Cross University) 9781447345367
RRP: £80.00£60.87The allied health professions have gained legitimacy through the pursuit of research evidence and the standardisation of practice. Yet there remains very little analysis or understanding of these professions. Adopting theory from the sociology of... -
Occupational Therapy Approaches to Traumatic Brain Injury by Laura H. Krefting
RRP: £51.99£45.19This sensitive book provides a much-needed compilation and description of OT programs for the care of individuals disabled by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Focusing on the disabled individual, the family, and the societal responses to the injured, this... -
Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians: Hippolytus Guarinonius and the Brothers Felix and Thomas Platter M.A. Katritzky 9781138254114
RRP: £53.99£47.27While the writings of early modern medical practitioners habitually touch on performance and ceremony, few illuminate them as clearly as the Protestant physicians Felix Platter and Thomas Platter the Younger, who studied in Montpellier and practiced in... -
Hand Rehabilitation in Occupational Therapy by Jane Bear Lehman
RRP: £135.00£117.28This practical book presents the latest and most effective occupational therapy methods and theories designed for treating patients with decreased hand function. The growing incidence of hand injuries in recent years has challenged occupational... -
Environmental Practice in the Human Services: Integration of Micro and Macro Roles, Skills, and Contexts by Bernard Neugeboren
RRP: £64.99£56.54Environmental Practice in the Human Services points to the need for the human services to return to their historic mission of environmental change. It moves beyond the more general conceptual emphasis on person-in-environment toward the development of an... -
Faith-Based Social Services: Measures, Assessments, and Effectiveness by Stephanie C. Boddie
RRP: £38.99£34.22Read the latest studies on the effectiveness of religious-based services-and the problems revealed in the assessment The Charitable Choice provision and the Bush Administration's National Faith-Based Initiative have broadened the scope of social... -
Evidence for Child Welfare Practice by Michael J. Austin
RRP: £35.99£32.09This book provides a "work-in-progress" that seeks to capture the micro (direct service) and macro (managerial) perspectives related to identifying evidence for practice within the practice domain of public child welfare. It is divided into two... -
Social Work in the Health Field: A Care Perspective, Second Edition by Lois A. Fort Cowles
RRP: £67.99£58.67This book provides an introduction to social work practice in the field of health care. It addresses both physical and mental health, examines various settings such as primary care, home care, hospice, and nursing, and also provides histories of social... -
Couples, Trauma, and Catastrophes by Barbara Jo Brothers
RRP: £21.99£19.34Couples, Trauma, and Catastrophes examines the issues and hardships couples face when dealing with traumatic circumstances, such as illness, child abduction, or the death of a child. From case studies and recommendations from other therapists, you will... -
Environmental Social Work by Professor Mel Gray
RRP: £42.99£37.59Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently, the... -
European Social Policy and Social Work: Citizenship-Based Social Work by Hans van Ewijk
RRP: £135.00£117.28European Social Policy and Social Work explores shifts in international social policies and how they affect national trends and thus the context for social work practice. The book discusses international and national social work strategies and... -
Social Care with African Families in the UK by Viola Nzira
RRP: £19.99£17.69This important text promotes understanding of the complexities and diversities of African family life. It stimulates creative thinking about how social care professionals can develop meaningful relationships and engage confidently and effectively with... -
Studying the Organisation and Delivery of Health Services: A Reader Pauline Allen 9780415340724
RRP: £31.99£28.33Research into the delivery and organisation of health care is a vital component in the improvement of health services. A wide range of disciplines and methods needs to be deployed to address research questions in this field. This unique reader brings... -
Access to Health Care Martin Gulliford 9780415275460
RRP: £46.99£40.97To what extent can we have truly universal, comprehensive and timely health services, equally available to all? Access to Health Care considers the meaning of 'access' in health care and examines the theoretical issues that underpin these questions... -
Risk and Citizenship: Key Issues in Welfare Rosalind Edwards 9780415241595
RRP: £46.99£40.97Contemporary welfare provision poses serious challenges for social policy. Large and rapid changes are said to be taking place in the way we live, work and relate to each other, characterised by anxiety and insecurity.Risk and Citizenship explores how... -
Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society Flis Henwood 9780415230230
RRP: £42.99£37.59Technology and In/equality explores the diverse implications of the new information and communication technologies through case studies of their applications in three main areas - media, education and training, and work. Questions of access to and... -
Sociology and Nursing: An Introduction Peter Morrall (University of Leeds, UK) 9780415202282
RRP: £42.99£37.59This introductory text provides nurses with the foundations of a sociological understanding of health issues which they should find of great help in thinking about their work and the role of their profession. It explains the key sociological theories and... -
Remaking the Body: Rehabilitation and Change by Wendy Seymour
RRP: £135.00£117.28In Remaking the Body, Wendy Seymour interviews men and women who have suffered profound bodily paralysis, and explores how they deal with their appearance, relationships, sexuality, incontinence and sport. She finds that even major impairment hasn't...