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  • Theory Building in Social Work

    by Gordon Hearn ...
    Series series Heritage
    This is essentially a book about theory building. Instead of actually presenting theory, it suggests and illustrates a particular way in which the social work profession, or any of the other service professions, might pursue the task of developing theory to refine its mode of practice. While written for every professional, it is directed, in particular, to those most actively engaged in the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • New Horizons for Canada's Children/Horizons Nouveaux pour les Enfants du Canada

    Proceedings of the first Canadian Conference on Children/Deliberations de la premiere Conference Canadienna de l'Enfance

    Edited by B. Heise ...
    Series series Heritage
    The first Canadian Conference on Children, held in the province of Quebec in October, 1960, was the culmination of several years of planning and of three years' specific study of projects which dealt with existing programmes for children in Canada. Delegates came from provincial and national organizations and the Conference was supported by a large number of organizations connected with child ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Research Compendium

    Review and Abstracts of Graduate Research, 1942-1962

    Series series Heritage
    This book represents an important contribution by the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto. It is a record of a carefully designed plan to include a worthwhile research experience in the educational programme of every student engaged in graduate education for the profession. In the introductory essay Dr. Albert Rose explains the methods by which this educational objective has been ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Room to Grow

    A Study of Parent-Child Relationships

    by Carroll Davis ...
    Series series Heritage
    The lives of seven children provides the focus for this penetrating look into the experiences that shape personality. As they emerge from the records collected over a twenty-year period by the University of Toronto's Institute of Child Study, they reveal the problems and frustrations met with in the process of growing up and point to the strong influences which family relationships have on mental ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Child and the Institution

    A Study of Deprivation and Recovery

    by Betty Flint ...
    Series series Heritage
    It has long been believed that children who must spend much of their lives in institutions inevitably develop personality deficiencies that make them liabilities to society. This book represents the first portion of a longitudinal study of the children of the Neil McNeil Home from infancy into adulthood. The study was begun in 1957 with a twofold purpose: first, to provide a therapeutic ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Patterns of Social Functioning in Families with Marital and Parent-Child Problems

    by Gerson David ...
    Series series Heritage
    The work reported in this book represents the first attempt to study a sample of client families with marital and parent-child problems using a systematic framework based on role-theory. The findings of the study are important and made more so by the consistency of the framework: the dimensions of family behaviour can be accurately studied because the techniques of observation used are constant. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Social Work in the Hospital Organization

    Series series Heritage
    This book was written to fill a need for a basic text about medical social work. The material has specific reference to social work in the hospital organization, but much of it is applicable to social work within the broader context of health care.Any printed material now available on the subject is largely incidental and scattered reference. This book will be of great value to social workers, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • New Hope for Deprived Children

    by Betty Flint ...
    Series series Heritage
    New Hope for Deprived Children is the carefully documented story of the development of a group of children from infancy through early adolescence. Exhibiting the effects of severe institutional deprivation in the early part of their lives, these children became the focus of a therapeutic programme within an institution designed to relieve their serious developmental deficiencies. The programme and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Social Work Supervision

    A comprehensive view of historical and current approaches to social work supervision, which includes one of the most extensive bibliographies ever compiled on the subject.In this overview of historical and current approaches to social work supervision, topics range from the first documented origins of supervision to the field’s future trends, with special emphasis on organizational authority and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • In the Children's Aid

    J.J. Kelso and Child Welfare in Ontario

    Series series Heritage
    The present system of child welfare in Canada dates from 1893, the year in which the Ontario Legislature passed 'An Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to, and better Protection of, Children.' The Act provided for the establishment of Children's Aid Societies with extensive legal powers to intervene in cases of child neglect and cruelty, and gave officials sanction to the foster care system.These ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Intellectual Base of Social Work Practice

    Tools for Thought in a Helping Profession

    This much-needed exploration of the cognitive side of social work practice provides a framework for improving social work practice and education. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Well-functioning Families for Adoptive and Foster Children

    A Handbook for Child Welfare Workers

    Series series Heritage
    The increase in adoption and fostering of children with special needs has been one of the most positive developments in Canadian child welfare over the past fifteen years. But special-needs children place greater demands on the adopting or fostering families, and this in turn has led to increased disruption of placements.This book will help child welfare professionals and students to assess ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

    Series series Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders
    For the average clinician, individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often represent the most challenging, seemingly insoluble cases. This volume is the authoritative presentation of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Marsha M. Linehan's comprehensive, integrated approach to treating individuals with BPD. DBT was the first psychotherapy shown in controlled trials to be effective with ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Tagore And Education: For Social Change

    The Title 'Tagore and Education: For Social Change written/authored/edited by Mohit Chakrabarti', published in the year 1993. The ISBN 9788121204361 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 226 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Education. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Rise of the Therapeutic State

    Assuming that "marginal" citizens cannot govern their own lives, proponents of the therapeutic state urge casework intervention to reshape the attitudes and behaviors of those who live outside the social mainstream. Thus the victims of poverty, delinquency, family violence, and other problems are to be "normalized." But "normalize," to Andrew Polsky, is a term that "jars the ear, as well it should ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Call Of Service

    by Robert Coles ...
    In this book, Coles explores the concept of idealism and why it necessary to the individual and society. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Criminal Personality

    The Change Process

    This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind. This book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to completely change the criminals way of thinking. The authors reject traditional treatment approaches as reinforcing of the criminals sense of being a victim of society. Rather Yochelson and Samenow stress that the criminal must make a choice to give up ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • The Facilitating Partnership

    A Winnicottian Approach for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals

    A young mother suspected of abusing her toddler, a severely behavior-disordered teenager who faces expulsion from his community residence, a depressed and illiterate homeless man who fears psychiatric evaluation. These clients populate the caseloads of most mental health professionals, who often view them as too crisis-ridden, deprived, and overwhelmed with concrete needs to benefit from an in ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Manufacturing 'Bad Mothers'

    A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect

    by Karen Swift ...
    Series series Heritage
    Child neglect has been characterized over the past century as a problem of deficient care of children by mothers. A complex and punitive child welfare system has emerged, based on a view that the children of these mothers require legally sanctioned rescue by those better suited to care for them. Karen Swift challenges both the accepted view of child neglect and the present official response to it ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Clinical Supervision

    A Systems Approach

    In her systems approach to supervision, the author presents a unique system of clinical supervision developed with her colleagues over years of experience as supervisors of psychologists in training. . . . The book is written in a ′reader-friendly′ manner and is both theoretical and practical. The prose is clear; the charts are easily decipherable. Research findings are separated onto single pages ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Unfaithful Angels

    How Social Work Has Abandoned Its Mission

    In this provocative examination of the fall of the profession of social work from its original mission to aid and serve the underprivileged, Harry Specht and Mark Courtney show how America's excessive trust in individualistic solutions to social problems have led to the abandonment of the poor in this country.A large proportion of all certified social workers today have left the social services to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Social Development

    The Developmental Perspective in Social Welfare

    The social development approach seeks to integrate economic and social policies within a dynamic development process in order to achieve social welfare objectives. This first comprehensive textbook on the subject demonstrates that social development offers critically significant insights for the developed as well as the developing world.James Midgley describes the social development approach, ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Social Working

    An Ethnography of Front-line Practice

    Series series Heritage
    In this unique work directed at social workers, Gerald A.J. de Montigny maintains that they, along with other professionals, create an `institutional' reality through their day-to-day practices. He traces the practical ways that social workers, when involved in child protection, struggle to produce a world which can be ordered, systematized, and subjected to their powers. It is a penetrating and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Traumatic Stress

    The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society

    This bestselling classic presents seminal theory and research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Together, the leading editors and contributors comprehensively examine how trauma affects an individual's biology, conceptions of the world, and psychological functioning. Key topics include why certain people cope successfully with traumatic experiences while others do not, the neurobiological ... Read more

    $62.99 USD