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Although philosophy has become a purely academic discipline over
the last few centuries, it once played an important role in the
politics of many Western nations. Now, the end of the 20th century,
philosophy seems to be returning to its original, practical
purposes, thanks to the new practice of philosophical counseling,
which is now emerging as an alternative to psychoanalysis and other
clinical approaches. This volume describes the main theoretical
aspects of this practice based on an open-ended dialogue between a
philosophical practitioner and a client or a group, and places it
in a historical context, while contrasting it with various forms of
psychological counseling. To illustrate how philosophy can be
beneficial, the author, a practicing philosophical counselor, also
presents several case studies from her own practice.
Community Care in Perspective fills a major gap in medical and
social history by offering a detailed account of community
provision for so-called 'vulnerable adults' in the UK from
1948-2005. This collection focuses primarily on people with
learning difficulties to offer insights into community care more
broadly, examining key issues such as charity versus rights, the
role of the market in care provision and the changing construction
of social categories. Charting the evolution of community care
since the formation of the NHS, this study will be invaluable in
contextualizing the work of policymakers and service providers.
This book is a concise, interpretive account of the life of Clara
Barton from her childhood in Massachusetts through her feats of
heroism during the Civil War, her founding of the American Red
Cross, which she led for 20 years, and her bitterly contested
ejection from office which clouded her last decade. Clara Barton
(1821-1912) led a life "in the service of humanity." Undoubtedly
heroic and undoubtedly generous in her impulse to aid others, she
nonetheless remained a self-centered individual who could brook
neither criticism nor ingratitude. Her life story is told here with
sympathy and understanding without sacrificing candor or honesty.
The world is changing. The first century of the third millennium
has seen exponential growth and advancement in almost all areas,
and makes the last century of the second millennium look like a
rusty old steam train by comparison. The 'digital revolution' is no
longer a revolution. Practically anyone can publicise their
outlook, whilst having access to a wealth of information at the
click of a button. And this levels out the playing field in an
unprecedented and unpredictable way. So how can anyone stand out?
How can anyone gain a competitive advantage? How can anyone master
more influence? How can anyone lead? The answer lies in coaching: a
discipline that enhances performance by generating meaning through
the art of relating. In Coaching for Impact, Vassilis Antonas
brings together his dual expertise in executive coaching and
psychotherapy to present a transformative, evolutionary approach.
The book examines methodology, presence and fundamental skills and
includes a new, innovative model of leadership. Antonas also uses
Jungian concepts to address the coach's internal disposition,
supporting their evolution and transformation. Coaching for Impact
equips trainee and beginner coaches with an A to Z of executive
coaching and engages seasoned practitioners to an uncompromised
pursuit of excellence by pushing the boundaries of leadership
coaching. It will appeal to executive and leadership coaches at all
levels, including those in training.
Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression is a comprehensive
compilation of expert knowledge on arts therapies' potential in
successfully addressing depression. The book identifies ways of
addressing the condition in therapy sessions, shares experience of
tools and approaches which seem to work best and guides towards a
conscious and confident evidence-based practice. Including
contributions from international experts in the field of arts
therapies, the book presents some of the most recent, high-profile
and methodologically diverse research, whether in the form of
clinical trials, surveys or case studies. The three sections of
this volume correspond to particular life stages and explore major
topics in arts therapies practice and the nature of depression in
children, adults and in later life. Individual chapters within the
three sections represent all four arts therapies disciplines. The
book hopes to improve existing arts therapies practice and
research, by encouraging researchers to use creativity in designing
meaningful research projects and empowering practitioners to use
evidence creatively for the benefit of their clients and the
discipline. Arts Therapies in the Treatment of Depression is an
essential resource for arts therapies researchers, practitioners
and arts therapists in training. It should also be of interest to
other health researchers and health professionals, particularly
those who work with clients experiencing depression and in
multidisciplinary teams.
In the public sector inspection regimes and performance targets
provide a powerful and dominant narrative, often placing pressure
on professionals and organisations to continuously quantify the
quality of services and to achieve targets. This book explores the
background, development, techniques and impact of such regimes
across areas of the public sector including schools, universities,
police forces, children's services and health services. Putting
inspection and audit regimes under scrutiny, the author questions
their role and function across these organisations and builds a
persuasive critical argument for the re-thinking of public
accountability mechanisms and techniques.
From food banks to migrant welcome committees, and community
organisers to internet based campaigners, civil society is central
to the North Atlantic social landscape. Theology and Civil Society
advances our understanding of what civil society is and offers a
theologically informed re-imagining of our shared social life.
Prefaced by a foreword by the Rev. Dr Rowan Williams, this book
explores contemporary manifestations of the kind of collective
action observed in civil society since the 1800s. It then examines
civil society as the sum of modern associations which mediate our
relationships to the market and the state, but which cannot be
identified fully with either the market or the state. Finally,
three different perspectives on civil society are presented using
insights from theologians such as John Milbank and Georg Hegel.
This is a pertinent topic for contemporary society, and it is
explored expertly here by an international panel of contributors.
As such, it is an important volume for any scholar of Theology and
Religious Studies and their interactions with Sociology and
Politics.
Author Jerald Schiff presents a framework within which charitable
behavior can be understood from an economist's viewpoint. He
stresses the impact of various government fiscal policies on
charitable giving, an issue of increasing importance in light of
social welfare spending cuts and the Tax Reform Act of 1986. The
book begins with an introduction of the issues involved and an
explanation of how an economic analysis differs from that of other
disciplines. Chapter 2 introduces the basic model of giving
employed throughout the book. Using this model, he describes
conditions under which government spending will crowd out, or
reduce, charitable giving. This analysis is then extended in
several different directions in the balance of the book. First,
Schiff considers the implications of the fact that much government
spending is funneled through charitable organizations, arguing that
government support for charities may actually encourage donations.
Contending that donors often have poor information about the
activities of charities, he analyzes soliciting by charities. Next,
the author models the behavior of volunteers, arguing that money
and time are often given for very different reasons and so may
respond to policy changes in different ways. He offers several
alternative explanations for volunteering. These several hypotheses
are then tested against data from the National Survey of
Philanthropy. The use of time series data from 1930-86 examines the
historical relationship between government spending and money
donations. In conclusion, the author considers likely future trends
in the charitable sector. This book will interest economists and
other social scientists working in the areas of charitable giving
and the nonprofit sector and public finance. Practitioners--lawyers
and fundraisers--in the nonprofit sector will also find this book
required reading.
"Animals and Social Work" represents a pioneering contribution to
the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It
advances cogent and detailed arguments for the inclusion of animals
within social work's moral framework, arguments that have profound
theoretical and practical implications for the discipline and its
practitioners.
When the United Nations sanctions a humanitarian relief operation,
how can the numerous and diverse UN, Non-Governmental Organizations
and military elements be coordinated? What are the practical,
political and institutional considerations and impediments? What
can be learned from previous experience? This is a volume of
practitioner perspectives: the views of distinguished individuals
from all of the concerned professions, including former Special
Representatives of the Secretary-General and Force Commanders, as
well as senior UN officials and representatives of the NGO
community.
Effective evacuations can save lives. This book provides
mathematical models of pedestrian movements that can be used
specifically for designing feedback control laws for effective
evacuation. The book also provides various feedback control laws to
accomplish the effective evacuation. It book uses the hydrodynamic
hyperbolic PDE macroscopic pedestrian models since they are
amenable to feedback control design. The control designs are
obtained through different nonlinear techniques.
Our uncertain times are hard enough for adults to navigate. For all
too many young people-even many who appear to possess good coping
skills-the challenges may seem overwhelming. More and more,
resilience stands as an integral component in prevention programs
geared to children and adolescents, whether at risk or not.
Resilience Interventions for Youth in Diverse Populations details
successful programs used with children and teens in a wide range of
circumstances and conditions, both clinical and non-clinical. New
strength-based models clarify the core aspects of resilience and
translate them into positive social, health, educational, and
emotional outcomes. Program descriptions and case examples cover
diverse groups from homeless preschoolers to transgender youth to
children with autism spectrum disorders, while interventions are
carried out in settings as varied as the classroom and the clinic,
the parent group and the playground. This unique collection of
studies moves the field toward more consistent and developmentally
appropriate application of the science of resilience building.
Among the empirically supported programs featured: Promoting
resilience in the foster care system. Developing social competence
through a resilience model. Building resilience in young children
the Sesame Street way. School-based intervention for resilience in
ADHD. Girls Leading Outward: promoting resilience in at-risk middle
school girls. Resiliency in youth who have been exposed to
violence. Resilience Interventions for Youth in Diverse Populations
is an essential resource for researchers,
professionals/practitioners, and graduate students in clinical
child and school psychology, social work, educational psychology,
child and adolescent psychiatry, developmental psychology, and
pediatrics.
"This directory will be of interest to libraries supporting
Hispanic American studies and to public and state libraries with
Hispanic clienteles." Reference Books Bulletin
Once the world's largest ODA provider, contemporary Japan seems
much less visible in international development. However, this book
demonstrates that Japan, with its own aid philosophy, experiences,
and models of aid, has ample lessons to offer to the international
community as the latter seeks new paradigms of development
cooperation.
Currently, there is a lack of resources and information regarding
how to best understand and support those impacted by incarceration.
As the number of people impacted by incarceration rises, it is
important that we acknowledge the issues and address the concerns
faced by professionals such as social workers and educators that
work with families and the most vulnerable populations impacted by
incarceration. Counseling Strategies for Children and Families
Impacted by Incarceration provides in-depth information and
background regarding the growing group of children and families
impacted by incarceration. It sets out to bridge the gap between
community and school counseling, mental health counseling, social
work, and social and cultural issues and can be used for skills
development and social justice reasons. Covering topics such as
school counseling resources, community engagement, and trauma, it
is ideal for researchers, academicians, practitioners, instructors,
policymakers, social workers, social justice advocates, counselors,
and students.
This timely analysis spotlights the concepts and possibilities of
the Patient-Centered Medical Home for bringing mental health and
other specialties into primary care. Overview chapters present the
Patient-Centered Medical Home model, emphasizing how such systems
are organized to solve widespread problems with accessibility,
affordability, efficiency, and safety. Practitioner roles,
boundaries, and opportunities plus applications are clarified, as
well as staffing, financial, and technological challenges. And the
section on applications describe care models for special
populations, such as comprehensive services to the seriously
mentally ill and behavioral services to patients with chronic
health conditions. Included in the coverage: Integrated care and
specialty behavioral health care in the patient-centered medical
home. Training the behavioral health workforce for the
patient-centered medical home. The importance of stepped care
protocols for the redesign of behavioral health care in
patient-centered medical homes. Depression management in the
medical home. Treating obesity in a primary care setting.
Integrating behavioral health in the pediatric medical home. For
health and clinical psychologists, primary care and family
physicians, and public health professionals, Integrated Primary and
Behavioral Care represents the potential for an exciting new
frontier in primary care reform.
As the average length of therapy shortens, clinicians need a
resource to lead them step-by-step through the goals and process of
the opening sessions of brief therapy as well as clear treatment
maps for the most common presenting problems. This resource helps
clinicians do just that and more, including doing a quick
assessment and isolating and addressing the underlying emotional
wounds that prevent families and couples from solving problems on
their own. Readers will not only learn how to "think brief," they
will also discover how to navigate the session process in an
interactive and action-oriented way, even with clients who are in
high-pressure, crisis situations.
This important text explores the deep relationships between
poverty, health/mental health conditions, and widespread social
problems as they affect the lives of low-income women. A robust
source of both empirical findings and first-person descriptions by
poor women of their living conditions, it exposes cyclical patterns
of structural and environmental stressors contributing to impaired
physical and mental health. Psychological conditions (notably
depression and PTSD), substance use and abuse, domestic and
gun-related violence, relationship instability, and hunger in
low-income communities, especially among women of color, are
discussed in detail. In terms of solutions, the book's contributors
identify areas for major policy reform and make potent
recommendations for community outreach, wide-scale intervention,
and sustained advocacy. Among the topics covered:* The intersection
of women's health and poverty.* Poverty, personal experiences of
violence, and mental health.* The role of social support for women
living in poverty.* The logic of exchange sex among women living in
poverty.* Physical safety and neighborhood issues.* Exploring the
complex intersections between housing environments and health
behaviors among women living in poverty. A stark reminder that
health should be considered a basic human right, Poverty in the
United States: Women's Voices is a necessary reference for research
professionals particularly interested in women's studies, HIV/AIDS
prevention, poverty, and social policy.
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