José B. Ashford, Craig Winston LeCroy, Lela Rankin Rankin
ISBN-13: 9780357623497©2025
Ashford/LeCroy/Rankin's EMPOWERMENT SERIES: HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE, 7th EDITION, is a comprehensive introduction to human behavior in the social environment that offers a multidimensional approach, with discussion of integrative practice, theory, treatment, diversity and services. You'll find solid coverage of foundation knowledge, material on the...
Richard K. James, Julia Whisenhunt, Rick Myer
ISBN-13: 9780357622698©2025
James/Whisenhunt/Myer's CRISIS INTERVENTION STRATEGIES, 9th Edition, is like combat. Chaos, disruptions, hostile environments and hostile clients calls for courage, creativity and tenacity in the face of threatening circumstances. Students are talked to like colleagues with 130 years of combined experience from combat veterans in crisis intervention. Triage assessment and LASER...
Nancy Summers
ISBN-13: 9780357935903©2025
Summers' FUNDAMENTALS OF CASE MANAGEMENT PRACTICE: SKILLS FOR THE HUMAN SERVICES, 6e, is a step-by-step guide through the case management process, from intake and assessment to referrals and termination. This edition focuses on important considerations for students to document and pass along in each step of the human services process....
Edward S. Neukrug
ISBN-13: 9780357935972©2025
Embark on a journey towards becoming a culturally competent counselor with Neukrug's THEORY, PRACTICE, AND TRENDS IN HUMAN SERVICES: AN INTRODUCTION, 7th Edition. It provides an in-depth exploration of the human services profession, covering crucial areas such as professional issues, major theories and working with diverse client populations. Major content...
Susan W. Gray
ISBN-13: 9780357520086©2025
Gray's PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, 5e, offers a compelling look at the current state of knowledge about mental disorders from a social work perspective. The author’s accessible narrative includes detailed, realistic vignettes of situations social workers commonly encounter in clinical practice, and offers strategies for building on clients' strengths, resilience and insights about...
Katherine van Wormer, Diane Rae Davis
ISBN-13: 9780357936344©2025
Van Wormer/Davis' ADDICTION TREATMENT: A STRENGTHS PERSPECTIVE, 5th Edition, covers biological, psychological and social aspects of alcohol and eating disorders, gambling and other addictions. 12-step and harm-reduction approaches are connected to show how clients are guided down paths tailored to their needs. Data from student surveys, including high school and...
Donna McAuliffe, Jennifer Boddy, Lesley Chenoweth
ISBN-13: 9780170470940©2024
The Road to Social Work and Human Service Practice gives you a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of practice in both social work and the human services. It lays out the journey and expertly signposts the key areas of knowledge, skills, values, ethics, practice contexts and contemporary debates. Perspectives from...
Allen E. Ivey, Mary Bradford Ivey, Carlos P. Zalaquett
ISBN-13: 9780357764633©2024
Ivey/Ivey/Zalaquett's ESSENTIALS OF INTENTIONAL COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD, 4th EDITION, is your guide to counseling and psychotherapy in a stressed world. This reader-friendly text focuses on what you need to know to begin your journey to become an effective counselor or psychotherapist in a diverse world in...
Gerald Corey
ISBN-13: 9780357764428©2024
Incorporating the thinking, feeling and behaving dimensions of human experience, the Eleventh Edition of Corey's best-selling text offers an easy-to-understand guide to help you compare and contrast the therapeutic models expressed in counseling theories. This wide-ranging text provides a thorough introduction to major theories including psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt,...
Diane R. Gehart
ISBN-13: 9780357764565©2024
Gehart's MASTERING COMPETENCIES IN FAMILY THERAPY: A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO THEORIES AND CLINICAL CASE DOCUMENTATION, 4th Edition, not only teaches you about family therapy theories, but also how to use them. A resource you will turn to again and again, it covers most of what you need to know in...
Gerald Corey
ISBN-13: 9798214033549©2024
Incorporating the thinking, feeling and behaving dimensions of human experience, the Eleventh Global Edition of Corey's best-selling text offers an easy-to-understand guide to help you compare and contrast the therapeutic models expressed in counseling theories. This wide-ranging text provides a thorough introduction to major theories including psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered,...
Geoff Arnott
ISBN-13: 9780170463133©2024
Disability Support Worker will help you to adopt a person-centred approach in your work. It includes information about the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), mental health, and medications administration. The text helps you prepare for the workplace with examples and activities that link theory to the workplace, as well as...
Geoff Arnott
ISBN-13: 9780170463119©2024
The Individual Support Worker is designed to meet the requirements of the Certificate III in Individual Support. It combines theory with practical activities for trainees who will be required to provide person-centred support to people who are ageing and/or have a disability-related condition. The text provides coverage of Consumer Directed...
Dean H. Hepworth, Pa Der Vang, Joan Marie Blakey, Craig Schwalbe, Caroline Evans, Ronald H. Rooney, Glenda Dewberry Rooney, Kim Strom
ISBN-13: 9780357630594©2023
Considered the profession's ideal learning resource, DIRECT SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: THEORY AND SKILLS, Eleventh Edition, prepares you for effective real-world practice. Packed with case examples, illustrations and relevant learning experiences from the authors and other social work practitioners, the text integrates the major theories and skills needed for contemporary direct...
Charles Zastrow, Sarah L. Hessenauer
ISBN-13: 9780357623398©2023
Discover a thorough overview of today's social work profession with a realistic glimpse into social problems in contemporary society with Zastrow/Hessenauer's best-selling INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE: EMPOWERING PEOPLE, 13E. This practical text provides real insights you can apply in practice. Updates highlight the latest developments and emerging...
Gerald Corey
ISBN-13: 9780357622957©2023
Gain an in-depth overview of the ten group counseling theories with Corey's best-selling THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GROUP COUNSELING, 10E. Using a clear, straightforward writing style, this edition illustrates how to put these theories into practice and even guides you in developing your own framework for effective group counseling with...
Susan Kenny, Tammy Hand
ISBN-13: 9780170452755©2023
The bestselling Developing Communities introduces you to the practices and principles of community development. It offers insights into the challenges of this demanding field and considers the ways in which it can empower citizens. You will learn about the issues and dilemmas in community development work, particularly in Australia, and...
Helen Cleak, Jill Wilson
ISBN-13: 9780170457606©2022
Learn how to get the most from your placements with this user-friendly text. The bestselling Making the Most of Field Placement offers a practice-based approach to teaching and learning during placement experiences. Written for both students and supervisors, it follows the stages of a placement from planning through to evaluation....
David Geldard, Kathryn Geldard, Rebecca Yin Foo
ISBN-13: 9780170451871©2022
Basic Personal Counselling (BPC) is an easy-to-read introduction to counselling skills for both professional and volunteer counsellors, and workers in the helping professions. This ninth edition of Basic Personal Counselling includes new content on self-care and the use of technology in counselling, as well as examples of counselling skills in...
Lesley Chenoweth, Donna McAuliffe
ISBN-13: 9780170446860©2021
The Road to Social Work and Human Service Practice gives you a comprehensive introduction to the professions of social work and the human services, with a focus on practice. It outlines the key areas of knowledge, skills, values, ethics, practice contexts and contemporary debates. Perspectives from both clients and practitioners...
Geoff Arnott
ISBN-13: 9780170443050©2021
The Individual Support Worker is designed to meet the needs of workers in the home, community and/or a residential setting, who are required to provide support to people who are ageing and/or have a disability-related condition. The text includes workplace activities and examples, as well as an introduction to the...
Geoff Arnott, Eva Bowers, Stacey Murray
ISBN-13: 9780170438797©2021
WINNER 2021 EPAA for VET Teaching and Learning Resource The judges said "Delivering Person Centred Services is a comprehensive resource for students and instructors. Structured according to the core competencies of the Diploma of Community Services case management specialisation, the book’s elegant design and pedagogical features make light work of...
Lawrence Shulman
ISBN-13: 9781305259003©2020
Shulman's text introduces a model for the helping process based on an "interactional" approach, which uses a variety of theories and skills to build on the client-helper relationship. By presenting the core processes and skills in the chapters on work with individuals, Shulman shows how common elements exist across stages...
Elizabeth A. Segal
ISBN-13: 9781305101920©2020
Segal's EMPOWERMENT SERIES: SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS, ENHANCED, 4th Edition, not only enables you to identify, describe, and analyze social welfare policies--it also draws you into an examination of the values and beliefs that drive our social welfare system. The author demonstrates how the myriad values of diverse...
Geoff Arnott
ISBN-13: 9780170438803©2020
The Disability Support Worker will help you adopt a person-centred approach in your work. It includes information about the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and other reforms consistent with the United Nations convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. This text contains examples and activities that link theory to the...
Gerald Corey
ISBN-13: 9789814878159©2020
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GROUP COUNSELING, 9th Edition, gives students an in-depth overview of the eleven group counseling theories. In addition to illustrating how to put these theories into practice, this best-selling text guides students in developing their own syntheses of various aspects of the theories. With Corey's clear, straightforward...
Helen Cleak, Jill Wilson
ISBN-13: 9780170417006©2019
Learn how to get the most from your placements with this user-friendly text. Making the Most of Field Placement offers a practice-based approach to teaching and learning during placement experiences. Written for students and supervisors, it follows the stages of a placement from planning through to evaluation. The core practice...
Charles Zastrow, Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, Sarah L. Hessenauer
ISBN-13: 9781337556477©2019
The main objective of social work is to facilitate positive changes in individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. The first step in this change process is accurate assessment — and that's the primary focus of UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT. Focusing on individual behavior within families and other...
Charles Zastrow, Sarah L. Hessenauer
ISBN-13: 9781337567916©2019
Build effective group leadership skills with the experiential and self-evaluation exercises in SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS. The authors discuss topics that are central to understanding group leadership: stages of groups, group dynamics, verbal and nonverbal communication, types of groups, and diversity in groups. With support from this book, your classroom...
Bruce S. Jansson
ISBN-13: 9781337565639©2019
Social welfare programs often get blamed for the nation's budget woes. Is that fair? Gain insight into our "reluctant" social welfare system from a top scholar on the subject. Bruce Jansson analyzes the evolution of the American welfare state from colonial times to the present--placing social policy in its political,...
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