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Provides practical skills-based support in a theoretical and
value-based context derived from the social work profession.
Relevant for all general social work practice courses at BSW or MSW
level. Relevant for all human service/health and social care
professionals who work with groups such as social workers, youth
workers, counsellors and mental health professionals.
Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological
breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human
body. However, much of the focus of this medical research has been
on the physical, often reducing the human being to a biological
machine to be examined, understood, and controlled. This book
begins by asking whether the modern medical milieu has overly
objectified the body, unwittingly or not, and whether current
studies in bioethics are up to the task of restoring a fuller
understanding of the human person. In response, various authors
here suggest that a more theological/religious approach would be
helpful, or perhaps even necessary. Presenting specific
perspectives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the book is
divided into three parts: "Understanding the Body," "Respecting the
Body," and "The Body at the End of Life." A panel of expert
contributors-including philosophers, physicians, and theologians
and scholars of religion- answer key questions such as: What is the
relationship between body and soul? What are our obligations toward
human bodies? How should medicine respond to suffering and death?
The resulting text is an interdisciplinary treatise on how medicine
can best function in our societies. Offering a new way to approach
the medical humanities, this book will be of keen interest to any
scholars with an interest in contemporary religious perspectives on
medicine and the body.
Provides practical skills-based support in a theoretical and
value-based context derived from the social work profession.
Relevant for all general social work practice courses at BSW or MSW
level. Relevant for all human service/health and social care
professionals who work with groups such as social workers, youth
workers, counsellors and mental health professionals.
Building and architecture has developed a language of its own, with
terms and jargon that can confuse an expert let alone an outsider.
Misunderstandings over what a word means can be irritating but
unimportant, but could in the worst cases be costly or even
dangerous. Traditional building dictionaries rely on the reader to
already know what the correct word is, and that's not always the
case. Roxanna McDonald's technique is radically different, and
makes full use of the power of visual communication to convey
information. Each stage of the building and design process is
illustrated, and each hand-drawn illustration is carefully labelled
with the relevant technical terms, to ensure that each term is used
correctly and consistently by everyone working on a project. The
'Illustrated Building Pocket Book' is a radical approach to the
age-old problem of the ambiguous use of technical language in
building and architecture. By using drawings - which leave little
room for ambiguity - clarity, safety and certainty can be achieved.
This second edition of The Social Work Student's Research Handbook
provides an essential guide for social work students beginning to
participate in research. Practical and easy to use, this
comprehensive handbook provides instant access to the nuts and
bolts of social work research. Each chapter in this second edition
has been updated to reflect the dynamic and changing nature of
social work research, and three new topical chapters have been
included that offer new food for thought on research context and
ethics and on the role of evidence in professional practice. The
book is intended as a resource to complement the dense and heavy
research books available. This text provides the tools students
need to fully engage with their research and is an essential
reference aid for use alongside professional literature for
selecting a problem for social work study with consideration of
context and ethics; identifying a design type; developing or
selecting an instrument; developing a sampling strategy; collecting
and analyzing data; and organizing, writing, disseminating, and
utilizing results in a politically sensitive way. The Social Work
Student's Research Handbook is an invaluable resource for
undergraduate and graduate social work students as well as
practitioners new to the field as they apply what they've learned
in research courses toward consuming research effectively,
implementing original research projects, and ultimately, toward
becoming an evidence-based practitioner.
This diverse collection of articles by group work professionals who
work in the classroom and in the field captures not only the art
and science of social work with groups but also its soul,
highlighting practice, teaching, and writing ideas that promote the
power of group work - and the people who do it. Making Joyful Noise
reinforces the value and uniqueness of group work as a positive,
optimistic, empowering, and affirming way of working with people.
The articles presented here cover a wide range of age groups,
populations, and settings and include examples on the use of
activity and discussion in groups: a poetry club for children, the
meaning of camp for preadolescents, a boxing group for adolescents
who live in the inner city, self-defense classes for adults, and
caregiver support for the elderly. The book also steps into the
classroom to promote the teaching of social group work and the
education of advanced group work practitioners and to encourage
practitioners to write about their group work practice. Finally,
the book presents and illustrates a number of concepts that are
unique to group work and that encourage front-line practitioners to
be bold and to stay in the mess.
While organized as a tribute to the late Dr. Roselle Kurland,
Making Joyful Noise is in and of itself an important collection of
articles and essays on social group work and one that is certain to
provide all practitioners who are interested in group work with a
spark, a smile, and some needed inspiration for their important
work.
Making Joyful Noise includes:
- essentials for preserving, promoting, and portraying group work
practice
- the critical relationship between human and professional ethics
in group work
- six common mistakes that practitioners make in regard to group
purpose
- using organizational analysis to improve group work
practice
- creatively blending activity and discussion in diverse
settings
- cultivating collegiality to reduce isolation and enhance
practice
- developing a capacity to stay in the mess in group work with
people of all ages
- skills for effectively working with transitions, separation,
and loss in group
- guidelines for practitioners wishing to write for
publication
- and much more
This book is a rich and diverse collection that is required reading
for anyone working to promote social work with groups.
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This diverse collection of articles by group work professionals who
work in the classroom and in the field captures not only the art
and science of social work with groups but also its soul,
highlighting practice, teaching, and writing ideas that promote the
power of group work - and the people who do it. Making Joyful Noise
reinforces the value and uniqueness of group work as a positive,
optimistic, empowering, and affirming way of working with people.
The articles presented here cover a wide range of age groups,
populations, and settings and include examples on the use of
activity and discussion in groups: a poetry club for children, the
meaning of camp for preadolescents, a boxing group for adolescents
who live in the inner city, self-defense classes for adults, and
caregiver support for the elderly. The book also steps into the
classroom to promote the teaching of social group work and the
education of advanced group work practitioners and to encourage
practitioners to write about their group work practice. Finally,
the book presents and illustrates a number of concepts that are
unique to group work and that encourage front-line practitioners to
"be bold" and to "stay in the mess." While organized as a tribute
to the late Dr. Roselle Kurland, Making Joyful Noise is in and of
itself an important collection of articles and essays on social
group work and one that is certain to provide all practitioners who
are interested in group work with a spark, a smile, and some needed
inspiration for their important work. Making Joyful Noise includes:
essentials for preserving, promoting, and portraying group work
practice the critical relationship between human and professional
ethics in group work six common mistakes that practitioners make in
regard to group purpose using organizational analysis to improve
group work practice creatively blending activity and discussion in
diverse settings cultivating collegiality to reduce isolation and
enhance practice developing a capacity to "stay in the mess" in
group work with people of all ages skills for effectively working
with transitions, separation, and loss in group guidelines for
practitioners wishing to write for publication and much more! This
book is a rich and diverse collection that is required reading for
anyone working to promote social work with groups.
Group work is a popular and widely used social work method.
Focusing particularly on the central role of mutual aid in
effective group work, this text presents the theoretical base,
outlines core principles, and introduces the skills for translating
those theories and principles into practice. A Mutual-Aid Model for
Social Work with Groups will help readers to catalyze the strengths
of group members such that they become better problem solvers in
all areas of life from the playroom to the boardroom. Increased
coverage of evaluation and evidence-based practice speaks to the
field's growing concern with monitoring process and assessing
progress. The book also includes: worker-based obstacles to mutual
aid, their impact, and their antidotes pre-group planning including
new discussion on curriculum groups group building by prioritizing
certain goals and norms in the new group the significance of time
and place on mutual aid and the role of the group worker
maintaining mutual aid during so-called individual problem solving
an expanded discussion of anti-oppression and anti-oppressive
practice unlocking a group's potential to make difference and
conflict useful special considerations in working with
time-limited, open-ended, and very large groups. Case examples are
used throughout to help bridge the gap between theory and practice,
and exercises for class or field, help learners to immediately
apply conceptual material to their practice. All resources required
to carry out the exercises are contained in over 20 appendices at
the end of the book. Key points at the end of each chapter recap
the major concepts presented, and a roster of recommended reading
for each chapter points the reader to further resources on each
topic. Designed to support ethical and successful practice, this
textbook is an essential addition to the library of any social work
student or human service practitioner working with groups.
Modern medicine has produced many wonderful technological
breakthroughs that have extended the limits of the frail human
body. However, much of the focus of this medical research has been
on the physical, often reducing the human being to a biological
machine to be examined, understood, and controlled. This book
begins by asking whether the modern medical milieu has overly
objectified the body, unwittingly or not, and whether current
studies in bioethics are up to the task of restoring a fuller
understanding of the human person. In response, various authors
here suggest that a more theological/religious approach would be
helpful, or perhaps even necessary. Presenting specific
perspectives from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the book is
divided into three parts: "Understanding the Body," "Respecting the
Body," and "The Body at the End of Life." A panel of expert
contributors-including philosophers, physicians, and theologians
and scholars of religion- answer key questions such as: What is the
relationship between body and soul? What are our obligations toward
human bodies? How should medicine respond to suffering and death?
The resulting text is an interdisciplinary treatise on how medicine
can best function in our societies. Offering a new way to approach
the medical humanities, this book will be of keen interest to any
scholars with an interest in contemporary religious perspectives on
medicine and the body.
This second edition of The Social Work Student's Research Handbook
provides an essential guide for social work students beginning to
participate in research. Practical and easy to use, this
comprehensive handbook provides instant access to the nuts and
bolts of social work research. Each chapter in this second edition
has been updated to reflect the dynamic and changing nature of
social work research, and three new topical chapters have been
included that offer new food for thought on research context and
ethics and on the role of evidence in professional practice. The
book is intended as a resource to complement the dense and heavy
research books available. This text provides the tools students
need to fully engage with their research and is an essential
reference aid for use alongside professional literature for
selecting a problem for social work study with consideration of
context and ethics; identifying a design type; developing or
selecting an instrument; developing a sampling strategy; collecting
and analyzing data; and organizing, writing, disseminating, and
utilizing results in a politically sensitive way. The Social Work
Student's Research Handbook is an invaluable resource for
undergraduate and graduate social work students as well as
practitioners new to the field as they apply what they've learned
in research courses toward consuming research effectively,
implementing original research projects, and ultimately, toward
becoming an evidence-based practitioner.
Group work is a popular and widely used social work method.
Focusing particularly on the central role of mutual aid in
effective group work, this text presents the theoretical base,
outlines core principles, and introduces the skills for translating
those theories and principles into practice. A Mutual-Aid Model for
Social Work with Groups will help readers to catalyze the strengths
of group members such that they become better problem solvers in
all areas of life from the playroom to the boardroom. Increased
coverage of evaluation and evidence-based practice speaks to the
field's growing concern with monitoring process and assessing
progress. The book also includes: worker-based obstacles to mutual
aid, their impact, and their antidotes pre-group planning including
new discussion on curriculum groups group building by prioritizing
certain goals and norms in the new group the significance of time
and place on mutual aid and the role of the group worker
maintaining mutual aid during so-called individual problem solving
an expanded discussion of anti-oppression and anti-oppressive
practice unlocking a group's potential to make difference and
conflict useful special considerations in working with
time-limited, open-ended, and very large groups. Case examples are
used throughout to help bridge the gap between theory and practice,
and exercises for class or field, help learners to immediately
apply conceptual material to their practice. All resources required
to carry out the exercises are contained in over 20 appendices at
the end of the book. Key points at the end of each chapter recap
the major concepts presented, and a roster of recommended reading
for each chapter points the reader to further resources on each
topic. Designed to support ethical and successful practice, this
textbook is an essential addition to the library of any social work
student or human service practitioner working with groups.
During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached
upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously
common appearance of dismembered heads in fashion illustration, to
seemingly torturous techniques and devices advertised by beauty
imagery, even extending to garments designed to look assaulted and
destroyed. Danger in the Path of Chic brings this disturbing
imagery to light for the first time, proposing new directions for
historians of fashion, violence and culture in the interwar years.
Concentrating on London, Paris and New York as fashion centres and
political allies, the volume explores why horror manifested itself
in this way, at this time, and in a sphere that is usually
perceived as being built on fantasy and escape. In doing so, Danger
in the Path of Chic situates fashion within the very real social,
psychological, economic and political traumas of the period.
In this strikingly honest collection, developed from a pioneering
new research project, autistic teachers and other autistic school
professionals share their stories of the challenges and successes
of their careers. Contributors challenge assumptions and
stereotypes whilst highlighting the unique strengths autistic staff
can bring to schools when their own needs are accommodated. The
book explores exclusion and identity, understanding and acceptance,
intersectionality and facilitating inclusion. It also celebrates
the positives that come with being an autistic teacher, such as
relating to neurodivergent pupils and conveying passion and
enthusiasm for a subject through intense interests, or
demonstrating particular skills in school leadership. It examines
how workplace set up can sometimes exclude autistic individuals and
lead to skilled teachers and those in other education roles,
including visiting professionals, leaving the profession, and sets
out the accommodations that can prevent this from happening.
Written for those who are familiar with the basic strategies of
analytic epidemiology, Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics takes
readers through a more rigorous discussion of key epidemiologic
concepts and methods such as study design, measures of association,
research assessment, and more. With real-life examples throughout,
the book avoids complex statistical formulations and is an
invaluable resource for intermediate students and practicing
epidemiologists who wish to expand their knowledge of epidemiology
and its role in the medical and public health sciences. The Fourth
Edition offers updated examples and new exercises in each chapter
as well as many new discussions of topics such as: prevalence
ratios vs. odds ratios; inverse probability weighting as a
technique for correcting for selection bias; regression to the mean
as a source of confounding (Glymour bias); mediation analysis;
correction for competing causes in multivariate analysis; the
extension of the Cox model for the analysis of nested case-control
studies; multilevel analysis; translational epidemiology and much
more. This edition also offers an updated package of instructor
materials including instructor's manual, PowerPoint lecture slides,
and a test bank.
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