Valerie Nash Chang

Carol L. Decker

Sheryn T. Scott

Developing Helping Skills A Step By Step Approach To Competency
- importance of self-understanding
- ways of understanding and perceiving self and others
- values, ethics, and legal obligations

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Philosophy

A Step-By-Step Approach to Competency

Chang, Decker, and Scott's multilayered teaching and learning system provides a creative blend of learning methods and clear presentation of topics to help students think like practitioners and apply foundational skills to real-world practice. Students first read about professional practice and the skills required to work effectively with clients. Next, they reflect on and write about the ideas presented in the text by completing homework exercises that follow each new concept. The book also includes a case, presented one section at a time, with questions that engage students in learning how to think like professionals. Role-playing in practice interviews promotes skill development, and simple evaluation tools allow for ongoing evaluation of competencies. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Developing Helping Skills

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Karen Bogenschneider

Family Policy Matters How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professionals Can Do
-latest research and cutting-edge practice to make an evidence based case for family policy. Includes pragmatic processes and procedures for building evidence-based family policy. 5 new chapters.

How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professionals Can Do

This best-selling text integrates the latest research and cutting-edge practice to make an evidence-based case for family policy. It uses examples from around the globe to explain how families support society and how policies support families. The book also moves beyond analysis to action with pragmatic processes and procedures for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of policies by viewing them through the lens of family impact.

Highlights of the new edition include:

 * Extensive revisions with many new references and policies that reflect recent changes in the economy, politics, and family forms and familes.
 * Many new learning tools including guiding questions, more tables and figures, chapter glossaries, discussion questions, and chapter summaries.
 * Enhanced global perspective with a new chapter (5) that features what policies nations have put in place to strengthen and support families.
 * A new chapter (8) that views how family considerations can improve the effectiveness of policy decisions on issues such as early childhood care and education, health care, juvenile crime, long-term care, parent education, and welfare reform.

 * A new chapter (11) on what the policy process and policymakers are really like including how a bill becomes a law.

 * A new chapter (12) that provides a theoretical and empirical rationale for viewing issues through the family impact lens and what innovative tools and procedures exist for analyzing the family impact of organizations, policies, programs, and practices.

 * Several chapters that review what professionals can do in the policy arena and how they can foster compromise and common ground.

 * Updated web-based teaching materials including sample syllabi, classroom activities and assignments, daily lesson plans, test questions, instructor insights, video links, web resources, and more.

Part 1 highlights what family policy is and why it's important and how family life in the U.S. differs from other countries. Part 2 examines the contributions family considerations can bring to issues such as early childhood education, health care, juvenile crime, long-term care, and welfare reform. Part 3  explains why polarization has stymied progress in family policymaking and guidelines for fostering compromise. Insights are drawn from the history of family policy over the last century. Part 4 provides strategies for getting involved in family policymaking. It reviews: the processes policymaking institutions use to enact legislation; new techniques for assessing the family impact of policies and programs; strategies for building better public policies; and various professional roles and careers for building family policy. The book concludes with a summary of how and where we go from here.

Intended for advanced undergraduate and/or graduate courses in family or social policy taught in human development and family studies, psychology, counseling, social work, sociology, public policy, home economics, consumer science, and education, researchers and practitioners alike appreciate this book's integration of theory, research, and practice.

Family Policy Matters

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Elizabeth D. Hutchison

Dimensions of Human Behavior
- exploring the multiple dimensions of person and environment and how they produce human behavior
- innovations in theory and research for comprehensive and global perspective on human behavior
- updated cases

Person and Environment

In the Fifth Edition of her acclaimed text, Elizabeth D. Hutchison explores the multiple dimensions of both person and environment and their dynamic interaction in the production of human behavior. Thoroughly updated, the text weaves its hallmark case studies with the latest innovations in theory and research for a comprehensive and global perspective on human behavior. The companion volume, Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive examination of human behavior across all major developmental stages. Containing powerful case studies and the most current theory and research, the book includes greater emphasis on more stages than any other text. Together, these two texts provide the most comprehensive coverage available for Human Behavior courses. Order the books together with bundle ISBN: 978-1-4833-8097-1. “Of all HBSE texts that have saturated the market, Person and Environment continues to lead the way in thoroughness, structure of content, and relevance for student learning.” —Billy P. Blodgett, West Texas A&M University “The Hutchison book does an outstanding job of conceptualizing multidimensional understanding, breadth versus depth, and general knowledge and unique situations.” —Diane Calloway-Graham, Utah State University “The realistic case studies drive home the point that students are preparing to work with real people confronting serious issues—it adds to the professional development we’re trying to do in our program.” —Karla T. Washington, University of Louisville “This text is well written, using fantastic case examples that enhance understanding of the material.” —Donna Taylor, University of Arkansas at Monticello “Hutchinson offers a unique text by presenting a melding of theory with practice. Utilizing case examples to highlight this intersection of theory, research, and life experiences, this book truly addresses human behavior in the social environment.” —Carla Mueller, Lindenwood University

Dimensions of Human Behavior

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Ola W. Barnett

Cindy L. Miller-Perrin

Robin D. Perrin

Family Violence across the lifespan an introduction
- inserts on current controversies
- expanded coverage of abused and abusive adolescents
- increased focus on the neurobiology of child abuse

An Introduction

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The most comprehensive research-based text on family violence - now more accessible and visually inviting than ever before



Streamlined and updated throughout with state-of-the-art information, this Third Edition of the authors′ bestselling book gives readers an accessible introduction to the methodology, etiology, prevalence, treatment, and prevention of family violence. Research from experts in the fields of psychology, sociology, criminology, and social welfare informs the book′s broad coverage of current viewpoints and debates within the field. Organized chronologically, chapters cover child physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; abused and abusive adolescents; courtship violence and date rape; spouse abuse, battered women, and batterers; and elder abuse.

Family Violence Across the Lifespan

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Bruce S. Jansson

Social Welfare Policy and Advocacy
- policy and advocacy at various levels
- about skills needed for different types of advocacy
- video interviews available to watch

Advancing Social Justice Through 8 Policy Sectors

Social Welfare Policy and Advocacy: Advancing Social Justice through 8 Policy Sectors provides the first framework that links micro, mezzo, and macro policy advocacy, demonstrating how each type can be used to promote social justice in health, gerontology, safety net, child welfare, education, immigrants/global, mental health, and criminal justice sectors. Author Bruce S. Jansson identifies seven core problems within each sector as well as the skills social workers need, the challenges they face, and the interventions they can use at each level of advocacy. Integrated vignettes, video clips, and robust resources underscore the text's hands-on, advocacy approach. Relevant to many Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) including policy practice, the book is designed for policy foundation courses.

Social Welfare Policy and Advocacy

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Allen Rubin

Book is about how to use statistics in evaluations, what they mean, how to understand, and how to create your own charts or statistics.

Rubin's STATISTICS FOR EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE AND EVALUATION has a proven ability to reach students and get them excited about--and see the relevance of--a course they often find intimidating. Presented in an authoritative yet humorous style, this text--designed specifically for statistics and evaluation courses in the helping professions--features cases, exercises, and many examples to bring the topic of statistics alive for student readers. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice and Evaluation

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Janell L. Carroll

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Embracing Diversity

The fresh, fun, and hip approach of SEXUALITY NOW: EMBRACING DIVERSITY, 6th Edition teaches students what they need and want to know about sexuality while clearly conveying foundational biological and health issues and citing current and classic research. A product of author Janell Carroll's partnership with her students, the text answers the questions and concerns that students have about themselves and their sexuality with scientific fact, sensitivity, humor, and unmatched candor. Carroll presents the range of sexual orientations and behaviors and takes into account the social, religious, ethnic, racial, and cultural contexts of today's students. The new edition includes even more examples and research on sexual diversity both within and across cultures. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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