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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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Critical Praxis in Student Affairs

    Social Justice in Action

    Student affairs work—like higher education—is fundamentally about change. Principally, the change work performed by student affairs practitioners is about supporting the growth and development of individual students and student groups. Increasingly, that work has called for practitioners to become more active in working to change higher education so that it lives up to its radically democratic, ... Read more

    PHP2,797.44

  • Residential Work with the Elderly

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1977, Residential Work with the Elderly brings together theoretical and practical approaches of relevance to providing care for older people in residential homes and long-stay geriatric hospitals. He describes the kinds of use to which institutional care is commonly put, the effects of institutional living o individual residents and the ageing process. He also examines ways of ... Read more

    PHP2,447.69

  • Saving Melissa

    The 7Cs to Cure the Mental Health System

    In this much anticipated book, Attorney Michael Mackniak, co –creator of the Guardian Model for the effective treatment of persons with mental illnesses, describes his parallel struggles with Melissa through the challenging world of mental health services. Mackniak, a young attorney and his client Melissa, a young woman with schizophrenia, find their lives overwhelmed by the confusion, stigma and ... Read more

    PHP553.79

  • The Art of Effective Facilitation

    Reflections From Social Justice Educators

    Edited by Lisa M. Landreman ...
    Series series An ACPA Co-Publication
    Co-published with How can I apply learning and social justice theory to become a better facilitator?Should I prepare differently for workshops around specific identities?How do I effectively respond when things aren’t going as planned?This book is intended for the increasing number of faculty and student affairs administrators – at whatever their level of experience -- who are being are asked to ... Read more

    PHP2,797.44

  • Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere

    Practice for Pre-conception to the Critical 1000 Days and Beyond

    Edited by Lorna Davies, Susan Crowther ...
    Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere draws together and critically appraises a raft of emerging research around mindfulness in healthcare, looking especially at its relevance to pregnancy and childbirth.Divided into three parts, this reflective book:· Investigates the phenomena of mindfulness through discussions of neuroscience, an indigenous worldview and research methods.· Develops the concept of ... Read more

    PHP3,088.90

  • Internships, High-Impact Practices, and Provocative Praxis in Higher Education

    A Social Justice Framework Based on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This authored text critically examines the theory and practice of college internship programs grounded in equity, diversity, inclusion, and access (EDIA) to examine issues such as infrastructure, inclusion, and privilege through "provocative praxis," a form of provocative inquiry that drives the ethics of pedagogy to envision student success both equitably and sustainably. Chapters use real-life, ... Read more

    PHP1,689.89

  • Creative Approaches to CBT

    Art Activities for Every Stage of the CBT Process

    Expanding the therapist's toolkit, this book provides creative activities and exercises for every stage of the cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) process, from initial diagnosis through to relapse prevention.The exercises are an integrated part of the CBT work and assist in the process of acquiring the required skills and behavioural outcomes. Drawing on creative techniques such as clay therapy ... Read more

    PHP1,499.99

  • The Christian Trauma Survivor’s Workbook

    A Skills-Based Approach for Psychological and Spiritual Healing

    The Christian Trauma Survivor’s Workbook is a step-by-step guide for supporting Christians who have a history of trauma. The workbook offers four research-supported skills—attention, focus on the present moment, awareness, and acceptance—to help Christians shift from trauma-based patterns of ruminative thinking that can keep them stuck and make trauma symptoms worse to focusing on God. Drawing on ... Read more

    PHP1,923.06

  • Power And Community

    by Dennis Altman ...
    This book provides a global overview of the role of the community sector, examining in detail the origins and activities of community organizations in Europe, the Americas, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It also describes the impact of sexuality and gender on AIDS activism and AIDS organizing, as well as broader cultural responses to the epidemic. It charts the ... Read more

    PHP4,138.16

  • Helping Adolescents and Adults to Build Self-Esteem

    A Photocopiable Resource Book

    Packed with activities and helpful advice, this resource is designed for professionals working to help adolescents and adults break the destructive cycle of low self-esteem.This fully updated new edition of Deborah M. Plummer's popular resource is filled with practical ideas for building healthy self-esteem. Easy-to-use photocopiable activity sheets encourage participants to use existing skills ... Read more

    PHP1,957.39

  • Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education

    Teaching, Learning, Policy, and Praxis

    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    Supporting Student and Faculty Wellbeing in Graduate Education recognizes new pressures impacting graduate students and their supervisors, teachers, and mentors globally. The work provides a range of insights and strategies which reflect on wellbeing as an integral part of teaching, learning, policy, and student-mentor relationships.The authors offer a uniquely holistic approach to supporting the ... Read more

    PHP3,380.37

  • Handbook of Medical Play Therapy and Child Life

    Interventions in Clinical and Medical Settings

    Edited by Lawrence C. Rubin ...
    The Handbook of Medical Play Therapy and Child Life brings together the voices and clinical experiences of dedicated clinical practitioners in the fields of play therapy and child life. This volume offers fresh insights and up to date research in the use of play with children, adolescents, and families in medical and healthcare settings. Chapters take a strength-based approach to clinical ... Read more

    PHP9,326.75

  • Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants

    Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations and specialized adaptations and applications of mainstream services and interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups are especially vulnerable to psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, alienation, grief ... Read more

    PHP2,098.09