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How to Screen Adoptive and Foster Parents
Screening potential adoptive and foster parents is an extremely difficult task, yet many social workers who screen applicants and supervise placements have no written guide to aid in their decision … Read more
Skinny Revisited
Skinny Revisited: Rethinking Anorexia Nervosa and Its Treatment offers a thorough overview and etiological explanation of anorexia as an eating disorder. Writing from a feminist sociobehavioral perspective, Maria Baratta forges … Read more
Outcomes Measurement in the Human Services, 2nd Edition
Outcomes Measurement in the Human Services: Cross-Cutting Issues and Methods in the Era of Health Reform, 2nd Edition, updates the original volume released in 1997. The second edition’s 25 chapters … Read more
Money and Psychotherapy
Because of a cultural taboo against talking about money, psychotherapists and their clients avoid discussing the single most powerful cultural force shaping how people think, feel, and behave. Money and … Read more
Beyond Oversight
What does it take to successfully develop a strong and effective grassroots nonprofit board David P. Moxley’s Beyond Oversight: Developing Grassroots Nonprofit Boards for Community and Institutional Change provides nonprofit … Read more
Effects of Conservative Religion on Lesbian and Gay Clients and Practitioners
Heterosexism plays a key role in the views of conservative churches about lesbian and gay people. Effects of Conservative Religion on Lesbian and Gay Clients and Practitioners: Practice Implications offers … Read more
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, 2nd Edition
The misuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) has severe emotional and financial consequences for users, their families, and society. The collective effects are often devastating, because the magnitude … Read more
Empowering Social Workers for Practice with Vulnerable Older Adults
Social workers are frequently the first responders in situations that require assessment of an older person’s capacity for independent decision making and self-care, yet there is limited professional literature to … Read more
Postpartum Mood Disorders
Postpartum mood disorders (PMDs) continue to occur with great frequency. Yet, despite the high prevalency rate of PMDs, the majority of medical and mental health professionals and other support providers … Read more