The most comprehensive textbook for students in advanced social work and mental health courses is now completely revised and updated for a new generation <P> When "Adult Psychopathology: A Social Work Perspective" was first published in 1984, this pioneering text was the first to conceptualize and organize theory and practice about the treatment of the mentally ill within their families and communities from a social work perspective. Now, ...

Empowerment of users of social care services has become a key issue in much current social work and social policy literature. But many of these texts have focused on themes such as consumerism and citizens' rights, settings in which user involvement is restricted to influencing front-line workers, with little participation in policy making at senior management level. This book explores strategies for effectively involving users in the planning, ...

&lt;div&gt;This book provides an informative, practical, and critical resource useful to social workers, educators, foster parents, case aides, and nurses providing direct service to those affected by Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Effects (FAS/E) and challenges program planners and policymakers to recognize the seriousness of the problem.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The instrument is now standardised and will also be of interest to strategic level providers and commissioners of health and social care services as a standardised assessment and outcome measure. In the draft practice guideline for dementia, The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE, 2006), the PAL instrument is recommended for activity of daily living skill training and for activity planning. ...

This toolbox reviews the current research on youth permanency issues and provides a framework for understanding the context of youth permanency. ...

In Fighting Firewater Fictions, Richard W. Thatcher describes and explains the emergence and perpetuation of the 'firewater complex' - the cultural construct of an informally sanctioned, destructive, binge-drinking norm in First Nations reserve communities. The complex has reified alcoholism as an inevitability in the First Nations -- an approach that has resulted in essential aspects of collective and personal responsibility being vacated in ...

Drawing on over twenty years of child welfare experience and extensive interviews with 54 gay and lesbian young people who lived in out-of-home-care child welfare settings in three North American cities - Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto - Gerald Mallon presents narratives of marginalized young people trying to find the "right fit". The first comprehensive examination of the experiences of gay and lesbian youths in the child welfare system, We ...

In an era of diminishing resources, communities that have historically been served by professionals in established social service settings can no longer rely on outside resources and assistance to meet their needs. Social Work Practice in Nontraditional Urban Settings focuses on the importance<BR>of developing models that are specific to urban areas, models which help facilitate and promote conversation and advice and reduce the stigma for ...

The New Paternalism opens up a serious discussion of supervisory methods in antipoverty policy. The book assembles noted policy experts to examine whether programs that set standards for their clients and supervise them closely are better able to help them than traditional programs that leave clients free to live as they please.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, social welfare programs had been cut back, and full employment policies had been abandoned in a number of countries. Indeed, the phrase "dismantling the welfare state" has been used to describe this trend. Well-recognized social welfare scholars and social scientists scrutinize the nature, extent, and consequences of changes in social welfare programs and labor markets in nine industrialized countries. ...