This new edition of Mental Health Social Work in Context continues to be an authoritative evidence-based introduction to a core area of the social work curriculum. Grounded in the social models of mental health this core text helps to prepare students for practice.... Lees meer.

This fully revised and expanded fifth edition of Social Work in Health Settings. Practice in Context maintains its use of the Practice in Context PiC decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in health care settings. This fully rev... Lees meer.

Moving beyond the post-Washington consensus this book shifts the focus of development policy debates away from expenditures and austerity and towards revenues and resources. The book explores the potential and the developmental impact of different categories of resour... Lees meer.

This book provides an effective model for helping persons with serious mental illness and is suitable for readers working in psychiatric rehabilitation. It is well documented that persons with serious mental illness suffer from severe psychosocial issues. Studies sugges... Lees meer.

An analysis of how America came to see various forms of suffering as mental illness arguing that social and historical dynamics not scientific discovery provided this notion. It critiques four cultures of therapy. psychoanalysis behaviourism cognitive therapy and... Lees meer.

Trauma War and Violence. Public Mental Health in Socio-Cultural Context will be of great interest to psychologists social workers anthropologists historians human rights experts and psychiatrists working or interested in the field of psychotrauma. Massive tr... Lees meer.

This is the first book for mental health professionals working with survivors of mass trauma to focus on the psychosocial and cultural contexts in which these disasters occur. It underscores the importance of understanding these environments in order to provide maximall... Lees meer.

In de geestelijke gezondheidszorg is er een groeiende tendens om meer empowerend te werken. Empowerment belichaamt het proces waarbij cli nten vanuit hun eigen kracht vorm en inhoud aan hun leven geven. Helaas blijkt het vaak echter een containerbegrip te zijn waarbi... Lees meer.

Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context For the first time ever the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV has acknowledged the importance of cultural variations across many mental disorders. In reaction to these changes author Freddy Paniagua... Lees meer.

This fully revised and expanded fifth edition of Social Work in Health Settings. Practice in Context maintains its use of the Practice-in-Context PiC decision-making framework to explore a wide range of social work services in healthcare settings. The PiC is updated... Lees meer.

Pastores zijn voortdurend zoek naar gereedschap en vaardigheden om anderen diep en wezenlijk te verstaan. Pastorale diagnostiek helpt om niet alleen empatisch maar ook consequent systematisch luisterend aanwezig te zijn. Verschillende Nederlandse pastores laten zien h... Lees meer.

This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries PICs of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary. This book explores the development of mental health sys... Lees meer.

Continues to identify and evaluate the major competing theories used to guide the goals policies and practices of the U.S. correctional system... Lees meer.

Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context For the first time ever the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV has acknowledged the importance of cultural variations across many mental disorders. In reaction to these changes author Freddy Paniagua... Lees meer.

This accessible book identifies and evaluates the major competing theories used to guide the goals policies and practices of the correctional system. The authors demonstrate that changes in theories can legitimize changing ways of treating and punishing offenders and... Lees meer.