Community Care Books

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1. Working with Cultural Diversity in Health and Social Care

   By Siobhan E. Laird

   In a multicultural society, all health and social care professionals need to deliver culturally appropriate services to meet the complex needs of their patients and service-users. This useful text provides a toolkit for students and practitioners to enable them to take account of cultural...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-49445-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Population Mental Health: Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice

   By Neal Cohen, Sandro Galea

   Population Mental Health identifies the tools and strategies of public health practice – surveillance and screening, early identification, preventive interventions, health promotion and community action – and their application to twenty-first century public mental health policy and practice....

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-77921-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy: Research and Practice in Health and Social Care, 2nd Edition

   By Brian Sheldon

   Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) has been extensively researched and shown to be solidly underpinned by evidence. Broadly applicable across a wide range of personal and social problems – from depression and phobias to child care problems – it is only now beginning to be used to its full...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-56435-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Mental Health and Social Problems: A Social Work Perspective

   Edited by Nina Rovinelli Heller, Alex Gitterman

   Mental Health and Social Problems is a textbook for social work students and practitioners. It explores the complicated relationship between mental conditions and societal issues as well as examining risk and protective factors for the prevalence, course, adaptation to and recovery from mental...

   October 2010 | 978-0-415-49387-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse

   By Sophia Bowlby, Linda McKie, Susan Gregory, Isobel Macpherson

   Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social and economic inequalities and opportunities. The book comprises three parts. The first explores contrasting social...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-43467-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Military Legacies: A World Made By War

   By James A. Tyner

   Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent. From the jungles of Vietnam to the arctic tundra of Russia, no region has escaped the legacy of warfare. To understand...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-99594-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Mental Health Social Work in Context

   By Nick Gould

   There has been a re-energising of interest in social work in mental health services in recent years and mental health is now a core part of all qualifying social work students’ training. Grounded in the social models of mental health particularly relevant to qualifying social workers, but also...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-45203-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Gerald P. Mallon

   A new, more comprehensive edition of the classic Social Work textAlthough the vast majority of LGBT persons are healthy, resilient, and hardy individuals who do not seek social work intervention, some have been or will be clients in social work agencies. Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay,...

   2008 | 978-0-7890-3358-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Adult Development and Well-Being: The Impact of Institutional Environments

   Foster well-being in an institutional setting Human services workers are consistently discovering more about how important adult well-being is as a foundation of positive human development. Adult Development and Well-Being: The Impact of Institutional Environments closely examines this relationship...

   2008 | 978-0-7890-3647-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Working with Vulnerable Adults

    By Bridget Penhale, Jonathan Parker

    This text provides an understanding of current professional practice in social and health care, examining abuse of vulnerable adults and the ways in which social policy, welfare services and practitioners may compound or alleviate vulnerability. Working with Vulnerable Adults develops a sound...

    2007 | 978-0-415-30191-6 | Paperback (Routledge)