. This text utilizes the strengths perspective as its unifying theoretical model and offers detailed premises and strategies for working with communities and organizations and for promoting social justice.
Crisis Intervention Strategies
Brooks Cole Pub Co. This authoritative, best-selling text presents the latest skills and techniques for handling crisis situations. This book puts you on the front lines with the crisis worker throughout the chapters, and then illuminates the techniques and strategies the worker used. Using this model, the authors build specific strategies for handling a myriad of different crisis situations, accompanied in many cases with the dialogue that a practitioner might use when working with the individual in crisis.
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The Community Needs Assessment Workbook
. In planning community and social services, perceptions of need come from many sources-from the local news to political interest groups-but the first step in conducting efficient and effective community interventions is to look beyond perceptions and identify the actual needs based on available evidence.
Brooks Cole Pub Co. The workbook offers thorough background information and provides step-by-step activities to address the entire process beginning with the planning stage, followed by data collection and analysis, and concluding with preparing your report and implementing findings. Creating a comprehensive needs assessment is essential for securing funding and designing programs in governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations.
Whether in a classroom setting or in the workplace, this is the book that practitioners will use throughout their entire careers.
Current Psychotherapies
Community Economic Development in Social Work Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series
Community economic development CED is an increasingly essential factor in the revitalization of low- to moderate-income communities. Columbia University Press. The result is an innovative approach to rehabilitating communities in decline while preserving resident demographics. Brooks Cole Pub Co. Throughout, they integrate case examples to illustrate their strategies and conclude with a consideration of the critical role social workers can play in developing CED's next phase.
The authors delve deep into the social, human, political, and financial capital involved in effecting change and how race and regional issues can complicate approaches and outcomes.
Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis in Social Work Practice
Brooks Cole Pub Co. The authors also catalog the latest evidence-based assessment instruments and treatments for each disorder so that social workers can intervene efficiently and effectively, using the best resources available. In clinical assessment and diagnosis in social work practice, bipolar disorder, depression, including anxiety disorders, seasoned practitioner-scholars Jacqueline Corcoran and Joseph Walsh provide an in-depth exploration of fourteen major mental disorders that social workers commonly see in practice, and schizophrenia.
They skillfully integrate several perspectives in order to help practitioners meet the challenges they will face in client assessment, and present a risk and resilience framework that helps social workers understand environmental influences on the emergence of mental disorders and the strengths that clients already possess.
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DSM-5 Clinical Cases
Each case is presented by an expert who concludes with a discussion of the context of the diagnosis. Dsm-5trademark clinical cases is a versatile volume designed to be used in a variety of contexts and for an audience that includes teachers, students, and clinicians. Faithful to the new edition, age and development, dimensionality, the book emphasizes the diagnostic concerns of severity, culture, and gender.
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Strategic Leadership and Management in Nonprofit Organizations: Theory and Practice
This book is a useful guide for students and professionals new to the workplace as well as a handy reference for experienced managers. Topics include successfully managing change, strengthening programs, and building a strong, nurturing a dynamic board of directors, diversifying revenues, committed staff and volunteer corps.
Survival is a critical concern for nonprofits in today's competitive environment. Brooks Cole Pub Co.
Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Used book in Good Condition. Corey introduces you to the major theories psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavior, person-centered, feminist, existential, behavior, reality, Adlerian, Gestalt, family systems, postmodern, and integrative approaches and demonstrates how each theory can be applied to two cases "Stan" and "Gwen".
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Program Evaluation: An Introduction to an Evidence-Based Approach
Used book in Good Condition. Columbia University Press. Used book in Good Condition. This edition's up-to-date coverage includes a greater number of references to current literature, developing, emphasizing that consulting the literature is an important step in recognizing, and evaluating evidence-based practice or research-informed practice.
Cengage Learning. The book's clear writing style and clear presentation of concepts, as well as the its hands-on and applied focus, will guide readers on how to gather evidence and demonstrate that their interventions and programs are effective in improving clients' lives.
Evaluating Practice: Guidelines for the Accountable Professional 6th Edition
Single-system designs guidelines analyzing data conceptualizing measuring. Used book in Good Condition. Evaluating practice continues to be the most comprehensive practice evaluation text available. Used book in Good Condition. Brooks Cole Pub Co. Cengage Learning. Columbia University Press.