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Social Work in Health Settings
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 46.95The most comprehensive book of its kind, Social Work in Health Settings presents a "practice in context" framework which is then applied in thirty-one casebook chapters, covering a great variety of health care settings from working with survivors of domestic violence through supporting people with HIV to services for military personnel. Reflecting... more...
Social Work and Transplantation of Human Organs
ABC-CLIO 1993; US$ 119.95The possibility of treating patients with organ replacement therapy has created a new frontier in medical care. Hospitals have to deal with such vital issues as selecting potential recipients of transplants, ensuring equity in allocating organs, pre- and peri-transplantation care of patients, and post-transplantation follow-up of organ recipients.... more...
Integrating Poverty and Gender into Health Programmes
World Health Organization 2005; US$ 10.00Intended for use in pre-service and in-service training of health professionals. Divided into six sections, this module on mental health aims to improve the awareness, knowledge and skills of health providers on poverty and gender concerns. It defines men more...
More Than Bread
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 29.95More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state. What happens when one hundred guests, which include single mothers, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and the chronically unemployed, representing diverse age groups and ethnicities, come together in the dining... more...
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Soc
Free Press 2010; US$ 35.00Object Relations and Self Psychology are two leading schools of psychological thought discussed in social work classrooms and applied by practitioners to a variety of social work populations. Yet both groups have lacked a basic manual for teaching and reference -- until now. For them, Dr. Eda G. Goldstein's book fills a void on two fronts: Part... more...
The Economics of Crime
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 45.00Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of policies designed to tackle it. The Economics of Crime is a powerful corrective to this academic... more...
The Hoods
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 31.95A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary... more...
Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada
Ontario Genealogical Society 2010; US$ 9.99Crime and Punishment provides genealogists and social historians with context and tools to locate sources on criminal activity and its consequences during the Upper Canada period of Ontarios history through engravings, maps, charts, documents, and case studies. more...
Mental Health and Social Problems
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 65.95Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work students and practitioners. It explores the complicated relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence, course, adaptation to and recovery from mental illness. The introductory chapter presents bio-psycho-social... more...
International Perspectives on Welfare to Work Policy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 54.95Learn what you can do to promote social policy initiatives that really work International Perspectives on Welfare to Work Policy presents the latest available research on the various interpretations of ?welfare-to-work? in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hong Kong, and on the role social work plays in creating and implementing... more...









