Edited by Wesley T Church, II, David Springer, and Albert R Roberts
Several million reported and unreported delinquent acts take place each year. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, juvenile delinquency, acting-out and oppositional behavior, illegal drugs, guns, and youth violence are pervasive throughout American society. Juvenile Justice Sourcebook is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the biopsychosocial assessment, police and juvenile court processing, and institutional and community-based treatment and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders.
Specialty Competencies in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology
Genetic Syndromes and Applied Behaviour Analysis: A Handbook for ABA Practitioners
This ground-breaking resource demonstrates how genetic knowledge can influence our understanding of a child’s behaviour and therefore inform their behavioural support plan. With expert advice and clear instructions, it shows exactly how to go about incorporating syndrome knowledge into ABA practice and start treating children with specific genetic syndromes more effectively. Six different genetic syndromes are covered in detail, ranging from Angelman syndrome to Williams syndrome. The book also includes general sections on genetic intellectual disability syndromes and an explanation of ABA methodology.
Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago’s 99%
How did a city long dominated by a notorious Democratic Machine become a national battleground in the right-wing war against the public sector? In Mayor 1%, veteran journalist Kari Lydersen takes a close look at Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and his true agenda. With deep Wall Street ties from his investment banking years and a combative political style honed in Congress and the Clinton and Obama administrations, Emanuel is among a rising class of rock-star mayors promising to remake American cities.
How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist: Mastering Metacompetence in Clinical Practice
When Boys Become Boys: Development, Relationships, and Masculinity
Core Principles of Meditation for Therapy: Improving the Outcome of Psychotherapeutic Treatment
Writing and Publishing in English: For Second Language and International Scholars [Kindle Edition]
This book is designed to help English as Second Language scholars get published in English language peer-reviewed journals. Even though there are many books on academic writing and publishing, the needs of ESL Scholars are unique. The authors provide specific guidance to write strong, scholarly articles and tips to overcome the challenges of creating those articles in a language that is not their first. Scholars from the sciences, arts and humanities, professional disciplines, and the behavioral and social sciences learn a step-wise approach from generating ideas, through creating the architecture of an article, to managing the peer review process.
Collaborative Cognitive Behavioral Intervention in Social Work Practice: A Workbook
Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Volume 1, Diagnosis, Development, and Brain Mechanisms, 4th Edition
Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
Approaches to Social Research: The Case of Deaf Studies
Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India
Integrative Family and Systems Treatment (I-FAST): A Strengths-Based Common Factors Approach
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States
BOOK REVIEW: Social Work Man
On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe
Recollecting Freud
Available here for the first time in English, this eyewitness account by one of Freud’s earliest students has been rediscovered for twenty-first-century readers. Isidor Sadger’s recollections provide a unique window into the early days of the psychoanalytic movement—the internecine and ideological conflicts of Freud’s disciples. They also illuminate Freud’s own struggles: his delight in wit, his attitudes toward Judaism, and his strong opinions concerning lay, nonmedical analysts
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Different Take on Taxes in Canada
New Perspectives on Poverty
This textbook explores the contemporary realities and perceptions of poverty in America since 1908. The authors use theoretical, empirical, and clinical knowledge in a reader-friendly and jargon-free manner to discuss public and private approaches to poverty and how interest groups influence policies.
Working and Living in the Shadow of Economic Fragility
Community Mental Health in Canada: Revised and Expanded Edition [Theory, Policy, and Practice]
“This book makes an important and unique contribution to understanding mental health issues in Canada, as well as across North America. Most books focus on mental health disorders and neglect the vast areas of service provision and delivery with their attendant complexities. Simon Davis has done an excellent job of covering all of these facets in this comprehensive and well referenced book.” – Jeannette Waegemakers Schiff, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary
Big Book of Benefits and Mental Health 2014/15
This book is extensively used by community mental health teams, social workers, advisers, housing support workers and people affected by mental distress and their carers. If you advise people with mental health problems this book is a must. The advice and guidance it contains on issues such as personal independence payment and support for carers can also be used to advise on other health conditions or disabilities. This 14th annual edition due April 2014.
Recent Advances in Autism Spectrum Disorders – Volume I
The Wiley International Handbook of Clinical Supervision
Handbook of Minority Aging
Interviewing For The Helping Professions: A Relational Approach
Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family
An Experiential Approach To Group Work, 2nd Edition
Field Experiments and Their Critics: Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences
Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Clinical Social Work Practice, Second Edition
Successful Grant Writing, 4th Edition: Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals
Hippie Homesteaders: Arts, Crafts, Music and Living on the Land in West Virginia
Sports-Related Concussions in Youth: Improving the Science, Changing the Culture
Children With Multiple Mental Health Challenges: An Integrated Approach to Intervention
Ontario Boys: Masculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1945—1960
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child: Volume 67
The L Word
While deconstructing the history of misrepresentation of lesbians, The L Word’s new modes of storytelling and new perspectives made many aspects of lesbian experience, history, and culture visible to a large audience. Fans of the show as well as readers interested in cultural studies and gay and lesbian pop cultural history will enjoy this astute volume.
Care of Military Service Members, Veterans, and Their Families
The Child’s World: The Comprehensive Guide to Assessing Children in Need, 2nd edition
Gender-Inclusive Treatment of Intimate Partner Abuse, Second Edition: Evidence-Based Approaches
Psychology of Love 101
While many people view love as a nebulous concept that is difficult to study scientifically, there exists a substantial psychological discipline that studies intimate relations. This incisive text provides a comprehensive tour of both classic and contemporary theories and research on the how and why of human love.
The Encyclopedia of Elder Care: The Comprehensive Resource on Geriatric Health and Social Care, Third Edition
Ending child poverty by 2020: Progress made and lessons learned
Narrative Gerontology in Research and Practice
What is meant by narrative? How can one elicit a narrative or analyze it in research? How can narrative work best be facilitated among older adults? This is the only text to provide comprehensive information about the applications of narrative approaches in community and long-term settings, writing in the virtual world, and such individual work as journaling or poetry. The book explores the theories of narratives across many disciplines, research practices and analytical strategies, and applications in work with older adults.