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  • The Approved Mental Health Professional′s Guide to Psychiatry and Medication

    Edited by Alan Pollard, Gwen Adshead, Robert Brown ...
    Series series Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
    This book is essential reading for all Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and those students and practitioners on mental health Post-Qualifying awards. It covers the core competencies of the AMHP and how the use of medication fits within the roles of the mental health professional. Fully updated to include aspects of the recently amended Mental Health Act 1983, this guide shows how the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Punished

    A mother’s cruelty. A daughter’s survival. A secret that couldn’t be told.

    by Vanessa Steel ...
    ‘Punished’ is the inspiring true story of an unusual little girl, Vanessa, whose childhood was devastated by torture and abuse at the hands of her sadistic mother. Vanessa was nearly destroyed until she discovered a secret that ultimately saved her life.From the age of 3, Vanessa lived in daily terror of her mother's unpredictable rage. If she was 'naughty', her mother would lash out at her – with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Quiet Room

    A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness

    by Lori Schiller, Amanda Bennett ...
    "A book of rare power, passion, and intelligence. Travel with Lori into the heart of schizophrenia, and you will never be the same." —Diane Sawyer, award-winning television news anchorMoving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage.At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Too Many Children Left Behind

    The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective

    by Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, Elizabeth Washbrook ...
    The belief that with hard work and determination, all children have the opportunity to succeed in life is a cherished part of the American Dream. Yet, increased inequality in America has made that dream more difficult for many to obtain. In Too Many Children Left Behind, an international team of social scientists assesses how social mobility varies in the United States compared with Australia, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Managing and Leading in Inter-Agency Settings

    by Helen Dickinson, Gemma Carey ...
    Series series Better Partnership Working
    Although leadership and management are seen as central to developing effective integrated working, there is relatively little thoughtful work analysing the relationship between the two sets of ideas. Until now.This updated edition of this essential textbook provides a robust guide to the leadership and management of inter-agency collaborative endeavours. It summarises recent trends in policy, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Meaningful Living across the Lifespan

    Occupation-Based Intervention Strategies for Occupational Therapists and Scientists

    by Moses N Ikiugu, Nick Pollard ...
    In this book, Ikiugu and Pollard explore the notion of meaningfulness, in the light of Viktor Frankl's (1992) assertions that the will to meaning is the primary motivation for behavior in human existence, and that the frustration of the pursuit for meaning in the modern and Western world constituted what he termed 'existential vacuum', leading in turn to what he called 'noogenic neurosis' or 'the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Reproduction, Globalization, and the State

    New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives

    by Rayna Rapp, Susan L. Erikson ...
    Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Based on research ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Implementing and Working with the Youth Criminal Justice Act across Canada

    Edited by Raymond R. Corrado, Susan Reid, Marc Alain ...
    Since its implementation in 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been the subject of intense political and scholarly debate. A complicated mixture of provisions intended to provide harsher punishments for serious violent crimes while encouraging positive, non-punitive interventions in less serious cases, its impact on the youth justice system remains controversial.Implementing and Working with ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Transforming Asian Governance

    Rethinking assumptions, challenging practices

    Edited by M Ramesh, Scott Fritzen ...
    Series series Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia
    There are a multitude of hazards that confront attempts to change institutional or political orders in pursuit of good governance. Even seemingly technical prescriptions run up against local political and social realities which make their adoption difficult and, if adopted, require significant modification of the original prescriptions. Moreover, the technical, rationalist and/or normative ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Family Violence: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Karen Terry ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Foster Placements

    Why They Succeed and Why They Fail

    by Ian Gibbs, Ian Sinclair, Kate Wilson ...
    Series series Supporting Parents
    How can we determine success in foster placements? Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning, considering the high frequency of placement breakdowns, their impact on the child's behaviour and school performance, and the challenges this places on foster families.The specific needs of the foster child are given close attention in determining ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Capability-Promoting Policies

    Enhancing Individual and Social Development

    by Xavier Rambla, Christian Christrup Kjeldsen, Franziska Felder, Sharon Bessell, Anna Gupta, Brid Featherstone, Paolo Graziano, Susan C Seifert, Mark Stern, Ann Mitchell, Severine Deneulin, Emilio J. Morales-Fernandez, Guillermo Bornemann-Martínez, Indira Mahendravada, Paola Ballon, Elise Klein, Reiko Gotoh ...
    How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked in this volume through analysis of existing policies and conceptualisations of coherent and ... Read more

    $50.99 USD