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Social Work & Received Ideas by Chris Rojek
RRP: £24.99£22.21Social Work and Received Ideas examines the language of both traditional and radical social work as forms of power, arguing that the will to help and care for people unintentionally results in new types of dependency, control and domination.Book... -
Multiple Sclerosis by Ian Robinson
RRP: £28.99£25.09Multiple Sclerosis affects hopes and expectations, restructures relationships, modifies careers and changes lives. It is a disease of variable onset, problematic diagnosis, unpredicatable prognosis and no effective treatment. Using unique... -
Epilepsy by Graham Scambler
RRP: £42.99£37.59In examining the social and psychological aspects of epilepsy, the author takes not only the perspectives of individuals and their families, but also popular conceptions of the disorder. The result is an illuminating account of the social reality of... -
Divorce and the Next Generation: Effects on Young Adults' Patterns of Intimacy and Expectations for Marriage by Craig Everett
RRP: £135.00£117.28This informative book clarifies the complex picture of how the experience of divorce in one generation may influence the next generation's approach to and preparedness for marriage. It identifies research and clinical issues regarding the effects of the... -
The EKG Workbook: Becoming Proficient in Reading EKGs by Reading EKGs by Aaron J. Gindea
RRP: £41.99£36.55Includes 50 narrated video tutorials! Master the challenging EKG interpretation process and confidently prepare for your clerkship! The EKG Workbook: Becoming Proficient in EKGs by Reading EKGs gives you hands-on practice applying core knowledge to reach... -
Social Welfare Policy Analysis and Choices by Hobart A. Burch
RRP: £24.99£22.21Social Welfare Policy Analysis and Choices gives you a thorough introduction to social welfare policy analysis. The knowledge you'll gain from its pages will enable you to understand and evaluate individual policy issues and choices by exploring the... -
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 by Bernadette Howlett
£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 by Maureen A. Coombs
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... -
Community Informatics: Shaping Computer-Mediated Social Networks by Dave Eagle
RRP: £12.99£11.94Community 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... -
Practising Social Work by Terry Philpot
RRP: £19.99£17.69Practicing Social Workprovides a systematic exploratiuon of ar ange of social work approaches. Each chapter focuses on a single theme and explains the practice implications of a particular method.Book InformationISBN 9780415092371Author Terry... -
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 by Christine Malone
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 by Claudio Violato
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 by Susan Nancarrow
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 by M.A. Katritzky
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: £66.99£57.83This 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: £19.99£17.69Couples, 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...