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  • Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy

    An Integrative Approach

    A step forward from the traditional textbook on counseling theories, Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach offers students a comprehensive overview of past and current approaches to psychotherapy and counseling, with a modern approach to theories of psychotherapy. An extensive array of mainstream theories, as well as contemporary approaches such as narrative, feminist, ... Read more

    PHP7,342.39

  • Transnational Social Work and Social Welfare

    Challenges for the Social Work Profession

    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    The underlying frame of social work is the nation state, and it is from within the state that welfare strategies and social policies are devised and implemented. However, post-colonialism, globalisation, migration and the associated implications for human rights, social justice and social welfare policies contest the idea of a clearly defined space for social work and present new challenges for ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Pathways towards Integrative Healing in Social Work

    Taking a new and innovative angle on social work, this book seeks to remedy the lack of holistic perspectives currently used in Western social work practice by exploring Indigenous and other culturally diverse understandings and experiences of healing.This book examines six core areas of healing through a holistic lens that is grounded in a decolonizing perspective. Situating integrative healing ... Read more

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  • Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States

    Series series Social Welfare Around the World
    This book explores generation as both a reference to family or kinship structures, and a reference to cohorts or age sets. The principal objective is branching out this two-part concept through studies of tensions and solidarity within and between generations of advanced and robust welfare states.Answering key questions using multiple disciplinary approaches, the book considers how generations ... Read more

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  • Community Practice Skills

    Local to Global Perspectives

    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 step, combining their own extensive experience with numerous case and practice examples from ... Read more

    PHP3,325.79

  • When A Baby Dies

    The Experience of Late Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death

    Every year in the UK over 10,000 babies die before birth or shortly afterwards. For the parents, the grief is hard to bear. In this book, parents who have lost a baby tell their stories. They speak about what happened, how they felt, how they have been helped by others and how they helped themselves.Using letters from and interviews with many bereaved parents, Nancy Kohner and Alix Henley have ... Read more

    PHP3,448.89

  • Financial Sustainability for Nonprofit Organizations

    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 training to become better nonprofit leaders with the information and conceptual frameworks needed ... Read more

    PHP4,489.99

  • Communication and Interviewing Skills for Practice in Social Work, Counselling and the Health Professions

    Series series Student Social Work
    This book supports and develops the communication and interviewing skills of professional practitioners and student practitioners in social work, counselling, and the health professions.Combining work on personal and social constructs, the search for meaning, and ecological theory, this book both provides an integrated discussion of practice and presents a balanced approach when discussing ... Read more

    PHP3,572.09

  • The Socially Skilled Child Molester

    Differentiating the Guilty from the Falsely Accused

    by Carla Van Dam ...
    Know what signs indicate a child molester!Revealing the secret but successful strategies used by child molesters allows adults to intervene long before children are abused. The Socially Skilled Child Molester: Differentiating the Guilty from the Falsely Accused identifies how socially proficient molesters successfully ingratiate themselves into families and communities. The book closely examines ... Read more

    PHP3,572.09

  • Egan's Skilled Helper Model

    Developments and Implications in Counselling

    by Val Wosket ...
    The skilled helper model of counselling is hugely influential in the helping professions. Egan's Skilled Helper Model brings a number of new and challenging perspectives to bear on Egan's work and makes a major contribution to the development of this problem-management and opportunity-development approach to helping.Val Wosket draws on over twenty years experience of counselling, training and ... Read more

    PHP3,448.89

  • Disaster Preparedness Kit

    by Rod Purnell ...
    We live in very uncertain times. One only needs to turn their thoughts to 9-11 to witness just how uncertain the world has become.Not only are we facing disaster on a global level, individually thousands of us experience our own forms of disaster every day. Fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and accidents remind us just how vulnerable we really are.What would you do if basic ... Read more

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  • Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families

    A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

    Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families is a comprehensive guide that provides an integrative and prescriptive approach to creating customized treatment plans. It’s an excellent textbook for graduate programs in social work, counseling, and family therapy and an invaluable guide for practicing clinicians in all settings.After exploring and explaining the many modalities for ... Read more

    PHP2,832.91

  • Cultivating Professional Resilience in Direct Practice

    A Guide for Human Service Professionals

    Overwhelming empirical evidence indicates that new social workers, particularly those going into child welfare or other trauma-related care, will discover emotional challenges including the indirect or secondary effects of the trauma work itself, professional burnout, and compassion fatigue. However, the newly revised CSWE Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) does not mandate the ... Read more

    PHP2,050.69

  • Exposing the Sex Industry – Interviews with the Players

    by Violet Ivy ...
    Welcome to my interviews book. These are some of the ‘out of the ordinary’ friends I have met in my travels. I meet a range of people due to my involvement in the sex industry. There is no way I can be judgemental and I think that comes across. Live and let live is my motto. Prostitutes have been judged and discriminated against since time began. I’m not about to judge another minority group who ... Read more

    PHP130.10

  • The Political Economy of Welfare in Latin America

    Universalism Deferred

    This innovative book analyses the hurdles preventing Latin American governments from implementing universalist welfare regimes. Juan Cruz Ferre presents a unique quantitative analysis of the persistent inequalities in welfare policy across this region including a three-dimensional diachronic assessment spanning inclusion, generosity, and equity.In The Political Economy of Welfare in Latin America, ... Read more

    PHP2,097.89

  • Teaching Discipline & Self-Respect

    Effective Strategies, Anecdotes, and Lessons for Successful Classroom Management

    Manage your classroom with proven, positive techniques that promote appropriate behavior.Teachers want to be able to teach the content they were trained to teach. Yet most teachers find themselves faced with the challenge of achieving effective classroom management. Highly readable and engaging, Teaching Discipline & Self-Respect offers guidelines, specific strategies, and structured activities ... Read more

    PHP2,097.89

  • Helping Relationships With Older Adults

    From Theory to Practice

    Series series Counseling and Professional Identity
    "A definite read for students in counseling programs for improving the lives of older adults!"–Amy Gray-Graves, Webster UniversityHelping 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, the text addresses various therapeutic methods as ... Read more

    PHP6,333.79

  • Adventure Group Psychotherapy

    An Experiential Approach to Treatment

    Adventure Group Psychotherapy: An Experiential Approach to Treatment explores what is necessary for an experiential therapy group to function effectively, and the practical skills needed to inspire success.The authors describe how to use activities in a manner that produces the greatest opportunity for clients to reach their goals. Issues such as how to actively assess client functioning in the ... Read more

    PHP3,572.09

  • Social Work in the Hospital Setting

    Interventions

    The book is about social work interventions in the different units of the hospital, from the history of social work in the hospital setting to the different units of the hospital, including emergency room, medical intensive care units, and discharge planning. The book is important because it is about the different interventions of the social worker with patients and families. ... Read more

    PHP245.78

  • Research Design for Social Work and the Human Services

    by Jeane Anastas ...
    Research Design for Social Work and the Human Services integrates a range of research techniques into a single epistemological framework and presents a balanced approach to the teaching of research methods in the "helping professions." Jeane W. Anastas begins with a discussion of the different philosophical perspectives within which social research occurs and continues with problem formulation, ... Read more

    PHP4,434.59

  • Group Work in Schools

    Edited by Bradley T. Erford ...
    The third edition of Group Work in Schools is designed to prepare counselors in school settings to successfully implement task, psycho-educational, and counseling groups in public and private educational settings.The chapters of this book are written by experts in the counseling profession and cover foundational, systemic, and applied topics essential to training top-caliber school counselors. ... Read more

    PHP4,188.07

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Perinatal Mental Health Disorders

    Edited by Amy Wenzel ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook of Perinatal Mental Health Disorders comprehensively presents the leading, global research in understanding and clinically treating perinatal mental health disorders.In this wide-ranging book, Wenzel invites a global community of scholars and practitioners working in perinatal mental health to discuss contemporary empirical research in the field and how this ... Read more

    PHP4,064.87

  • Archetypal Coaching

    Creating Synergies Through Astrology and Dream Work

    by Alba Carod ...
    Archetypal Coaching offers a transformative approach to personal growth, blending ancient Greek astrological foundations and dream work with modern coaching techniques, somatic awareness, and Jungian active imagination.Astrological archetypes illuminate the roots of struggles and highlight potential resources, while dreams act as a focused lens, bringing attention to issues that require immediate ... Read more

    PHP2,648.11

  • Proposing Prosperity?

    Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America

    "Fragile families"—unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially—are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship skills, are predicated on the hope that married couples can provide a more emotionally and financially ... Read more

    PHP3,602.99