About 6 million young people, or roughly 1 in 10, suffer from a serious emotional disturbance that significantly impairs their functioning. Meeting their diverse needs is often challenging for their families and for the therapist working with such families. This accessible, practical book is designed to enhance the effectiveness of practitioners working with families that include a child or adolescent with an anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, although grounded in current theory and research this book emphasizes professional practice with families, includes rich case material and clinical applications and offers a wide range of provider-, home- and school-based interventions. This book is written with sensitivity and filled with practical approaches to real clinical situation will empower both therapists and families
This valuable book fills a void in professional training: namely how to educate and collaborate with families of children with serious mental disorders. In lucid, compassionate prose dotted with rich case examples, March and Mar4ks chronicle the lived experience of children's mental illness in personal and systemic contexts. Readers learn about available resources, family-professional teamwork and how to transmit both scientific and practical information and a message of hope
Toward Finding and Mobilizing Community Assets This guide to asset-based community development is a summary of the lessons learned by studying successful community-building initiatives in hundreds of neighbourhoods across the United States. The book outlines in simple terms how communities can rediscover and map their local assets, then combine and mobilise these strengths to build stronger, more self-reliant communities. More info
The health and welfare of Australia's Indigenous population is marked by recurring and seemingly intractable issues such as poor access to services, family violence, and high levels of infant mortality. More than 200 years of historical, cultural and political factors have shaped Indigenous lives - and the perceptions of social workers. Linda Briskman, social worker, academic and author of the acclaimed book The Black Grapevine - Aboriginal Activism and the Stolen Generations, throws down the gauntlet to practitioners and students of social work, challenging them to pursue a better,... More info
In this controversial book, psychologists Barry Duncan and Scott Miller, cofounders of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, challenge the traditional focus on diagnosis, silver bullet techniques, and magic pills, exposing them as empirically bankrupt practices that only diminish the role of clients and hasten therapy's extinction. Instead, they advocate for the long-ignored but most crucial factor in therapeutic success-the innate resources of the client. Based on extensive clinical research and case studies, The Heroic Client not only shows how to harness the clients powers of regeneration to... More info
