How to Talk to Families about Child and Adolescent Illness    
Marsh/Marks    Norton    $37.95

When a child struggles with mental illness, the entire family struggles. With this accessible and useful handbook, clinicians will learn how mental illness affects the family, the most common issues and concerns of these families, and how best to help them navigate the emotional and practical complexities brought on by the disease. Focused on practical issues and supported by clinical vignettes, chapters discuss the family experience of mental illness, navigating the mental health and education systems, the parameters of effective family-focused professional practice, and helping families plan for the future. Individual chapters also explain the unique stresses of anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia in children and adolescents.   

Community Practice Skills: Local to global perspectives
Gamble/Weil    Columbia Univ Press    $79

Dorothy N Gamble and Marie Weil differentiate among a range
of intervention methods to provide a comprehensive and
effective guide to working with communities. Introducing a
framework of eight distinct models targeted toward specific
goals, Gamble and Weil take an unusually inclusive step,
combining their extensive experience as educators and
practitioners with numerous practice examples from both
domestic and international settings.

Mental Health, Service User Involvement and Recovery
Jenny Weinstein    Jessica Kingsley    $44.95

Written cooperatively by service users and academics, this
book conveys a vital connection between recovery and
involvement, offering a framework of values and helpful
strategies to promote meaningful user participation. By sharing
their personal narratives and contributing their views, service
user authors demonstrate how taking control of their own care
facilitates a swifter and more satisfying recovery.

What Have I Done? Victim empathy exercises for young offenders    Wallis/Aldington/Leibmann
Jessica Kingsley     $66

Victim awareness and the needs of victims of crime are a
major societal concern. What Have I Done? is a course to
encourage empathy in young people who commit crimes or
hurt others through their actions. It is designed to be used
directly with young people who have committed a specific
crime or caused harm and distress to others through their
actions, and challenges the young person to face the harm
they have caused and consider what they can do to help put
things right.

Survival Guide for Newly Qualified Child and Family Social Workers: Hitting the ground running
Donnellan/Jack    Jessica Kingsley    $42.95

So, you’ve passed your degree and have started your first job. But are you confident about translating the theory into practice? Are you prepared to juggle the workload of a busy social worker?
Do you have a plan for your continuing professional development? This practical guide provides a wealth of suggestions to help you to hit the ground running in the
early stages of your new career.

Living with Learning Disabilities, Dying with Cancer
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne    Jessica Kingsley    $45.95

This book is a powerful and moving account of the experiences of 13 people with learning disabilities who were living with cancer. The author followed their lives as part of a 3-year research study, during which 10 people died. She spent extensive periods of time with them at their homes and day centres, in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes. In doing so, she gained a unique understanding of what it is like for
individuals with learning disabilities to live with deteriorating
health and how this may impact upon their families, friends
and carers.

Standards and Ethics for Couselling in Action: Third Edition
Tim Bond    Sage    $73

Since it first appeared in 1993, this highly acclaimed text has
been the leading guide to counselling ethics. Its discussion of
a wide range of ethical problems and advice on identifying and
resolving these dilemmas has made it an invaluable resource.

Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma
Christiane Sanderson    Jessica Kingsley    $50.95

Victims of sexual and physical trauma can feel lost and disconnected from themselves and others. Christiane Sanderson’s new book explains how counsellors can restore
connection to self and others, and facilitate recovery within a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship.

The SAGE Handbook of Coaching   
Cox/Bachkirova/Clutterbuck    Sage    $81

This comprehensive guide to coaching explores a full variety
of coaching theories, approaches and settings, and offers
strategies for the reader to identify and develop a personal
style of coaching.

Understanding Social Work Practice in Mental Health
Coppock/Dunn    Sage    $53.95

This book provides an authoritative overview of mental health
theory, policy and practice. Exploring the complex moral and
ethical dimensions underpinning the field, the book engages
with the key issues encountered by practitioners working in
the modern mental health system. Using real world scenarios,
case studies, and reflective exercises, it asks students to
critically examine the world of mental health practice from
the perspective of users of mental health services and their
carers.

Collaborative Divorce Handbook: Helping families without going to court    Forrest Mosten    Wiley    $115

The Collaborative Divorce Handbook will be the definitive practical resource for the burgeoning collaborative divorce movement. Up-to-date and accessible, the book is designed to give an explanation and overview of the models of collaborative divorce practice, put these models into context with other dispute resolution options, and provide readers with basic skills, practice tools, and strategies to either make an informed choice about entering collaborative practice (either exclusively or in tandem with other professional services) or increase the profitability of an established collaborative practice.

Youth Gangs and Community Intervention: Research, practice and evidence    Robert Chaskin    Columbia Univ Press    $69

Although there now exists a range of program and policy
responses to youth gangs, most are still largely based on
suppression, implemented by the police and other criminal
justice agencies. In this volume, leading researchers discuss
effective intervention among youth gangs, focusing on
the ideas behind, approaches to, and evidence about the
effectiveness of community-based, youth-gang interventions.
Treating community as a crucial unit of analysis and action,
this book reorients our understanding of gangs and the
measures undertaken to defeat them.

Rights, Risks and Restraint-free Care of Older People: Person-centred approaches in health and social care
Rhidian Hughes    Jessica Kingsley    $44.95

The book provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions under which they are used, and their implications for the health and wellbeing of older people. Practical approaches to minimising are then explored, underlining
the importance of person-centred care. Innovative programmes and approaches to reducing the use of restraint from around
the world are described and assessed, and case studies are drawn upon to highlight practice challenges and their effective resolutions.

Advocating for Children in Foster and Kinship Care: A guide to getting the best out of the system for foster parents, kinship caregivers and practitioners
Rosenwald/Riley    Columbia Univ Press    $44.95

Mitchell Rosenwald and Beth N. Riley introduce the first book
to offer strategies for effectively advocating for youth in foster
and kinship care, paying special attention to the consequences
of the trauma youth may experience. Advocacy must be
consistent throughout a child’s assignment and adjustment,
and this text teaches practitioners the best methods for
assessing a family’s abilities and level of commitment, while
guiding families through the various challenges of the foster
care system.

Therapy Online: A practical guide    Anthony/Nagel    Sage    $55.95

The plethora of online services now available has led to a growing demand for practitioners to look beyond traditional
face-to-face therapy and take advantage of the flexibility which email and the Internet can offer them and their clients. This guide gives up-to-the minute information and research, ethical and
legal advice, on the practicalities of setting up or joining a service, and the essential therapeutic skills needed to be
an effective online therapist. 

Telling Lies: Clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics and marriage: Third edition    Paul Ekman    Norton    $27.95

Paul Ekman is a renowned expert in emotions research and nonverbal communication. In Telling Lies, he describes how our
language, facial expressions, and the way we hold our bodies can be read to tell whether we are being honest or not.

Emotional Healing for Dummies    Whitten/Beales    Wiley     $42.95

This easy-to-follow, plain-English guide shows you why and how emotions can leave a physical scar, and talks about various life factors and influences that can lead to emotional stress. It will help you heal your emotional traumas with a toolkit of strategies, and allows you to take care of your health with a practical, hands-on approach.

Youth Work Ethics    Howard Sercombe    Sage    $53.95

What does it mean to practice youth work ethically? How does ethical theory relate to the youth work profession? This definitive text on youth work ethics examines these questions and more and should be on the reading lists of all youth work trainees and practitioners. A wide range of topics are covered, including: confidentiality, sexual propriety, dependence and empowerment, equity of provision, interprofessional working, managing dual relationships, working across cultures, and working within an agency.