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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

    PHP7,035.19

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

    PHP3,147.29

  • 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

    PHP3,205.49

  • 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

    PHP3,205.49

  • 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

    PHP3,088.90

  • 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

    PHP3,088.90

  • 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

    PHP4,248.99

  • Rebuilding Lives after Domestic Violence

    Understanding Long-Term Outcomes

    Rebuilding Lives after Domestic Violence examines in-depth the long-term outcomes for women who have suffered domestic violence and abuse, based on interviews conducted over seven years.Through these interviews the author reveals the factors which help or hinder a successful transition from abusive relationship to independent living. The women interviewed provide an insight into the lengthy and ... Read more

    PHP1,956.69

  • Assessment of Trauma in Youths

    Understanding issues of age, complexity, and associated variables

    Edited by Kathleen Nader ...
    Assessment of Trauma in Youths: Understanding issues of age, complexity, and associated variables is a collection of articles by well-known specialists in the field of childhood trauma. The articles describe developmental issues in addition to others that are important to the assessment of trauma-exposed youth, to the ongoing refinement of trauma-related diagnoses for children, and to ... Read more

    PHP3,205.49

  • Without You – Children and Young People Growing Up with Loss and its Effects

    by Tamar Granot ...
    Adults often believe that children are quick to overcome and forget loss, but there is evidence that children are affected by the memory and impact of loss throughout their lives, and especially during the years that they grow-up.In this sympathetic book, Tamar Granot explains the immediate and long-term effects of loss on children and adolescents. She describes how loss is experienced at ... Read more

    PHP1,826.19

  • Positive Psychology Arts Activities

    Creative Tools for Therapeutic Practice and Supervision

    This book contains a wealth of practical arts activities, which creatively and playfully bring positive psychology concepts - such as flow, character strengths, goals and self-awareness - to life.With straightforward, step-by-step instructions, each chapter includes an overview of a positive psychology concept, followed by associated arts activities, and case examples illustrating the activities' ... Read more

    PHP1,304.29

  • Biennial Review of Counseling Psychology

    Volume 1, 2008

    Created to keep pace with changes in the psychological fields, the Biennial Review of Counseling Psychology addresses key developments in theory, research, and practice. New areas that have evolved in counseling psychology are discussed, and each chapter is written by current front-runners in the field. The content presented is relevant for science, education and training, public interest and ... Read more

    PHP4,021.58

  • Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second Edition

    Improving Analysis and Understanding of Parenting Capacity

    Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame.Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews, which can generate a lot of information but little analysis to enable professionals to establish a meaningful understanding of parenting capacity. Children with ... Read more

    PHP1,956.69

  • Contemporary Parenting

    A Global Perspective

    Through a global, multidisciplinary perspective, this book describes how four factors influence parenting practices: a countries historical and political background, the parent’s educational history, the economy and the parent’s financial standing, and advances in technology. Case studies that illustrate the impact these four factors have on parents in various regions help us better understand ... Read more

    PHP4,313.04

  • Integrating Spirit and Psyche

    Using Women's Narratives in Psychotherapy

    In this extraordinary collection, the voices of women's experience ring out loud and true!The power of narrative in therapy for women is undeniable. Used well, other women's narratives can help us to understand and rewrite our own. Here, women bare their souls, reflecting on self-enhancement and growth, on discrediting negative family scripts, on seeing through demeaning cultural messages, on ... Read more

    PHP4,021.58

  • Dying, Grieving, Faith, and Family

    A Pastoral Care Approach

    Dying, Grieving, Faith, and Family: A Pastoral Care Approach enables grief counselors, pastors, hospice specialists, hospital chaplains, mental health practitioners, educators, and seminary students to bring an understanding of faith development, family systems, and gender and ethnic differences into their professional practice as they work with dying and grieving persons. No other book covers all ... Read more

    PHP3,905.00

  • The Coach's Guide for Women Professors

    Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life

    by Rena Seltzer ...
    If you find yourself thinking or saying any of the following, this is a book you need to pick up.I know or suspect that I am underpaid, but I hate negotiating. I do everything else first and then write in the time left over.I’m not sure exactly what the promotion requirements are in my department.Since earning tenure, my service load has increased and my research is suffering. I don’t get enough ... Read more

    PHP1,981.35

  • Jay Haley Revisited

    Jay Haley Revisited brings together influential professionals in psychotherapy and counseling to introduce, analyze, and put into context 20 of the most interesting and significant papers Jay Haley produced, both published and unpublished. Jay Haley was one of the most influential thinkers in psychotherapy who revolutionized the field through his writings, teachings, research, and supervision for ... Read more

    PHP3,905.00

  • Moral Injury Reconciliation

    A Practitioner's Guide for Treating Moral Injury, PTSD, Grief, and Military Sexual Trauma through Spiritual Formation Strategies

    Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation. This book presents this methodology as a trans-diagnostic approach for practitioners working with clients with MI, PTSD, grief and military sexual trauma.Using the language of reconciliation and ... Read more

    PHP1,956.69

  • Working with Children and Adolescents in Residential Care

    A Strengths-Based Approach

    by Bob Bertolino ...
    Working with Children and Adolescents in Residential Care: A Strengths-Based Approach is written for professionals who work with children and youth in out of home placements, be they social services workers, child welfare or family court workers, educators, or mental health professionals in general. The book offers an approach that professionals can use to positively impact the lives of young ... Read more

    PHP4,487.92