By Carol Packham

ISBN-10: 1844451526

ISBN-13: 9781844451524

This publication explores the function of the employee in facilitating participation, studying and energetic engagement inside groups. targeting contemporary tasks to bolster citizen and group engagement, it presents assistance, frameworks and actions to assist in paintings with group participants, both as sorts of volunteers or as a part of self-help teams. environment group paintings as a tutorial method, the booklet additionally highlights dilemmas bobbing up from attainable interventions and offers suggestions for reflective, potent perform.

By David Pitcher

ISBN-10: 1849053464

ISBN-13: 9781849053464

Kinship care - the care of youngsters via grandparents, different family members or buddies - is an immense a part of foster care, but there are special concerns that come up in care related to kinfolk instead of 'stranger' foster carers. This e-book takes an in-depth examine what is going on 'inside' kinship care. It explores the dynamics and relationships among kinfolk which are curious about kinship care, together with moms, grandparents, siblings and the broader relations. Chapters additionally talk about matters comparable to safeguarding, evaluation, treatment, encouraging permanence, placement breakdown, aid teams, and cultural matters. the ultimate a part of the ebook seems to be at kinship care from a global point of view, with examples from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the us. Drawing on quite a number theoretical views and with contributions from varied branches of kinship care, this e-book presents a useful evaluation of the problems concerned and the way to supply powerful help. it is going to be crucial interpreting for all these operating within the kinship care box, together with social staff, therapists, counsellors, psychologists and kinfolk legal professionals.

By James Drisko, Tina Maschi

ISBN-10: 0190215496

ISBN-13: 9780190215491

Content material research deals a accomplished review of the difference inside of content material research, besides certain descriptions of 3 methods present in the modern literature: uncomplicated content material research, interpretive content material research and qualitative content material research. This publication presents an inclusive, and thoroughly differentiated, exam of up to date content material research examine reasons and techniques. the sort of booklet isn't at the moment on hand. bankruptcy One examines the conceptual base and historical past of content material research, then the following 3 chapters research every one method of content material research extensive, utilizing short illustrative exemplar stories. all the technique chapters employs a constant define to assist readers evaluate and distinction the 3 diversified ways. bankruptcy five examines rigor in content material research and highlights steps to make sure the inner coherence of experiences. This booklet concludes with exploration of 2 full-length stories: bankruptcy 6 examines using content material research for advocacy and construction public knowledge to advertise human rights and social justice. bankruptcy 7 reports a full-length learn of older adults in criminal to element how content material research is finished and the way varied methods will be usefully mixed.

By Mark A., PhD, LPC, CRC, CCM Stebnicki

ISBN-10: 0826115446

ISBN-13: 9780826115447

Many psychological well-being practitioners current signs which are in line with their consumers' anxiousness and stress-related issues. It comes as no shock, then, that "counselor impairment" - the strain that comes from treating survivors of worrying occasions - is now formally famous by way of the yank Counseling institutions' activity strength on Counselor well being.

"Empathy Fatigue" is a time period coined via the writer after his personal adventure serving at the problem reaction workforce for the Westside center institution shootings in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Remarkably, indicators of empathy fatigue are obvious among a large diversity of execs: those that deal with sufferers of annoying and worrying occasions; those that deal with individuals with abuse, temper, nervousness, and stress-related problems; in addition to those that paintings in profession and vocational settings or with individuals with psychological and actual disabilities. This advisor can also be intended for these kind of teams.

This ebook presents a repertoire of innovations, recommendations, and perception designed to extend own resiliency and reduce counselor burnout and fatigue:

• Self-assessment methods, with an in-depth research of empathy fatigue and a proof of this phenomenon from a brain, physique, and religious standpoint.
• Detailed case stories and instructed questions for self-assessments and self-care.
• A number of self-care techniques, offering guidance to counselors and clinicians to spot their very own emotional, actual, and psychological exhaustion.

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By Duncan Lindsey

ISBN-10: 0195085183

ISBN-13: 9780195085181

By Lesley Day, Mary Langan

ISBN-10: 0415076110

ISBN-13: 9780415076111

Deals a brand new viewpoint on feminist social paintings which takes account of the complexity of the manifold oppressions that have an effect on the lives of most ladies and so much social paintings consumers.

By Bettina Hünersdorf, Jutta Hartmann

ISBN-10: 3531180991

ISBN-13: 9783531180991

ISBN-10: 353118962X

ISBN-13: 9783531189628

Wo gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse unabänderlich erscheinen und Alternativen zur Wahrnehmung gesellschaftlicher Wirklichkeit kaum formulierbar sind, zielt die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Kritik darauf, Handlungsspielräume zu öffnen. used to be aber ist Kritik genau? Die philosophische Frage nach den Bedingungen der Möglichkeit von Kritik und deren Bedeutung für die Beobachtung von Wirklichkeit erscheint für die Soziale Arbeit zunächst sehr abstrakt. Die Beiträge des Bandes zeigen, wie aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen und interdisziplinären Bezügen Kritik formuliert werden kann und welche Bedeutungen diese für die Soziale Arbeit entfalten.

By John Canavan, John Pinkerton, Pat Dolan, Neil Thompson

ISBN-10: 1843103206

ISBN-13: 9781843103202

ISBN-10: 1846424747

ISBN-13: 9781846424748

Family aid is an more and more vital strategic method of welfare companies for kids and households. This necessary source for all execs engaged within the improvement and supply of those companies is underpinned by way of reflective perform values and based round 4 themes:

* conceptual frameworks and vocabulary (defining)

* coverage and organisational buildings and processing (planning)

* instruments for inventive perform (doing)

* techniques to assessment (measuring).

members from around the globe supply overseas views on middle matters in kin help. those contain the significance of neighborhood, the position of statutory and voluntary organizations, early life advocacy, culturally acceptable kinfolk aid, baby safeguard, incapacity providers and powerful technique of evaluate. delivering a mix of transparent theoretical frameworks and functional information, with transparent 'how to' messages and a powerful emphasis on evaluate, this publication may be of curiosity to social employees, care employees, academics, group improvement and cops, scholars, policy-makers, evaluators and all these operating in all parts of kin support.

By Alex Howard

ISBN-10: 0333642872

ISBN-13: 9780333642870

ISBN-10: 1349138258

ISBN-13: 9781349138258

A transparent, readable, radical problem to the principles of remedy. The author's final objective isn't really counselling, however the abuse of professionalisation and our present deity - consumerism. the variety, ardour and intensity of the dialogue will allure the overall reader and a large variety of carers and consumers. The questions raised should still make it needed interpreting for practitioners and their supervisors. Which faculties of counselling will upward push to the problem? to be able to fail, and fall?

By Mark Baldwin, Nick Gould

ISBN-10: 0754680592

ISBN-13: 9780754680598

A severe attribute of human carrier corporations is their skill to profit from adventure and to conform continually to altering exterior stipulations resembling downward strain on assets, consistent reconfiguration of the welfare kingdom and quickly altering styles of social want. This useful, groundbreaking quantity discusses intimately the concept that of the training association, particularly its relevance to social paintings and social prone. members subscribe to jointly from throughout Europe, North the USA and Australia to discover the improvement of the training association inside of social paintings contexts and its use as a strategic instrument for assembly difficulties of continuing studying, supervision and alter. the quantity addresses more than a few vital issues, from concepts for embedding studying and important mirrored image within the social paintings studying association, to the results of the educational association for the recent community-based healthiness and social care schedule.