Mental Health/Clinical Social Work Books

New and Published Books

1. Healing War Trauma

   A Handbook of Creative Approaches

   Edited by Raymond Monsour Scurfield, Katherine Theresa Platoni

   Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

   Healing War Trauma details a broad range of exciting approaches for healing from the trauma of war. The techniques described in each chapter are designed to complement and supplement cognitive-behavioral treatment protocols—and, ultimately, to help clinicians transcend the limits of those protocols...

   Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
2. Toynbee Hall (Routledge Revivals)

   The First Hundred Years

   By Asa Briggs, Anne Macartney

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1984, Toynbee Hall, The First Hundred Years is not just a centenary study, but a personal contribution to the continuing history of Toynbee Hall, which is the Universities’ settlement in East London, and an institution that has inspired respect and affection. Its pioneering role...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Loneliness Updated

   Recent research on loneliness and how it affects our lives

   Edited by Ami Rokach

   "To be alone is to be different. To be different is to be alone, and to be in the interior of this fatal circle is to be lonely. To be lonely is to have failed" (Susan Schultz, 1976) Loneliness carries a significant social stigma, as lack of friendship and social ties is socially undesirable, and...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Feminist Therapy with Latina Women

   Personal and Social Voices

   Edited by Debra M. Kawahara, Oliva Espín

   Feminist Therapy with Latina Women highlights the principles of feminist and multicultural counselling and therapy with Latinas and Latin American women, providing both theoretical approaches and applied frameworks. The authors are all experienced therapists and researchers with a deep...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Community Mental Health

   Challenges for the 21st Century, Second Edition

   Edited by Jessica Rosenberg, Samuel Rosenberg

   The first edition of Community Mental Health quickly established itself as one of the most comprehensive and timely books about mental health practice in community settings. Readers will find that this new edition is also on the leading edge of the field, providing the most up-to-date research and...

   Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. Partners in Palliative Care

   Enhancing Ethics in Care at the End-of-Life

   Edited by Mary Beth Morrissey, Bruce Jennings

   The Collaborative for Palliative Care ("Collaborative") is a grassroots consortium of public and private organizations that came together in 2005 for the purposes of studying the increasing need for palliative care and the methods for such care. It has grown from a small fledgling group to a...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
7. Critical Approaches to Care

   Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures

   Edited by Chrissie Rogers, Susie Weller

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   What does ‘care’ mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in different contexts? What resources do individuals and collectives draw upon in order to care for, care with and care about themselves and others? How do such relationships and practices relate to broader social...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
8. Population Mental Health

   Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice

   Edited by Neal Cohen, Sandro Galea

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Over the last century public health efforts, such as immunization, safer food practices, public health education and promotion, improved sanitation, and water purification have been very successful in eradicating and controlling a host of diseases. The result has been a dramatic improvement in...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
9. Women and Aging International

   Diversity, Challenges and Contributions

   Edited by Lee Ann Mjelde-Mossey, Iris Chi

   According to a recent population report by the United Nations, "in most countries, older women greatly outnumber older men. In many cases, the difference is so large that the concerns of the older population should in fact be viewed primarily as the concerns of older women." Internationally, the...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Care Work in Europe

    Current Understandings and Future Directions

    By Claire Cameron, Peter Moss

    Care Work in Europe provides a cross-national and cross-sectoral study of care work in Europe today, covering policy, provision and practice, as well as exploring how care work is conceptualized and understood. Drawing on a study which looks at care work across the life course in a number of...

    Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge