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  • Narrative Social Work Practice

    A Resilience-Enhancing Anti-Oppressive Approach

    Edited by Roberta Greene, Nancy Greene, Harriet Cohen, Taunya Cole ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book highlights the co-creation of the narrative interview and explains how the narrative method can be used to promote competence and wellness, resist oppression, and ultimately liberate clients from their problems. The person-in-environment concept brings together a wide range of personal and societal micro to macro influences that allow practitioners to engage in an effective helping ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Forsaken People

    Case Studies of the Internally Displaced

    Edited by Francis M. Deng, Roberta Cohen ...
    The coerced displacement of people within the borders of their own countries by armed conflicts, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights has become a pervasive feature of the post Cold War era. The plight of the displaced poses a challenge that is not only humanitarian but a threat to the security and stability of countries, regions, and, through a chain effect, the ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

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  • "These Kids Are Out of Control"

    Why We Must Reimagine "Classroom Management" for Equity

    by Lori Delale-O′Connor, H. Richard Milner, Heather B. (Bossert) Cunningham, Erika Gold Kestenberg ...
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  • School Counseling to Close Opportunity Gaps

    A Social Justice and Antiracist Framework for Success

    by Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy ...
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  • Happiness Explained

    What human flourishing is and what we can do to promote it

    by Paul Anand ...
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  • Psychology, Poverty, and the End of Social Exclusion

    Putting Our Practice to Work

    by Laura Smith ...
    Series series Multicultural Foundations of Psychology and Counseling Series
    Laura Smith argues that if there is any segment of society that should be concerned with the impact of classism and poverty, it is those within the “helping professions”—people who have built their careers around understanding and facilitating human emotional well-being. In this groundbreaking book, Smith charts the ebbs and flows of psychology’s consideration of poor clients, and then points to ... Read more

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  • Multisystemic Resilience

    Adaptation and Transformation in Contexts of Change

    by Michael Ungar ...
    Multisystemic Resilience brings together for the first time in one volume a wide range of resilience scholars who have been wrestling with how to explain processes of recovery, adaptation, and transformation in contexts of change and adversity. With contributions from psychologists, epigeneticists, ecologists, architects, disaster specialists, engineers, sociologists, social workers, and public ... Read more

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  • Counseling Women Across the Life Span

    Empowerment, Advocacy, and Intervention

    by Jill Schwarz, PhD, NCC ...
    "Dr. Jill Schwarz' Counseling Women Across the Lifespan is tailor made for gender-specific counseling courses. This text is highly accessible and comprehensive, and includes specific learning objectives, state-of-the-art research, and questions for student reflection and discussion. Importantly, each chapter is a Call to Action for all counselors to be advocates for change in a world that ... Read more

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  • Resilient Teachers, Resilient Schools

    Building and sustaining quality in testing times

    by Christopher Day, Qing Gu ...
    Series series Teacher Quality and School Development
    This book unpicks the complex, dynamic blend of individuals’ psychological and professional assets, workplace conditions and leadership support which enable teachers who stay in teaching to continue to make a difference in their careers, regardless of shifts in policy, workplace, professional and personal circumstances.Whilst much has been written over the years about teacher stress and burnout, ... Read more

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    Evidence for Action

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  • A Manifesto for Early Childhood

    Edited by Aaron Bradbury, Ruth Swailes, Philippa Thompson ...
    The Early Childhood Sector faces many challenges today. Sector-wide pressures and policy changes mean settings are struggling with many issues including funding, retention and recruitment of staff.As change looms, this new book takes the opportunity to explore what could be possible. It draws together expertise and experience from across many sectors, including education, health, and social work ... Read more

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