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Giving Care, Taking Care : Support for the Helpers
by Sherokee Ilse
Book Description
For the professional and lay caregivers who give of themselves to others in
need, but must be reminded to make time to "fill their own wells." A practical
guide with advice from people who have "been there." For professionals such as:
nurses, mental health professionals, clergy, funeral directors, physicians,
hospice workers, disaster relief workers and for family members who care for
chronically ill loved ones.
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Ethical Issues in Youth Work (Professional Ethics)
By
Sarah Banks
Book description:
Ethical Issues in Youth Work presents a systematic analysis of some of the core
ethical dilemmas facing youth workers in their day to day practice. |
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Understanding Health and Social Care : An Introductory Read
by Margaret Allot , Martin Robb
Book Description:
This introductory Reader provides a uniquely wide-ranging collection of key
readings in the field of health and social care.
The book features classic readings alongside articles reflecting the most recent
theoretical and empirical work. Cutting across the conventional divide between
health care and social care, the Reader sets out to link policy to practice in a
tangible way, juxtaposing the voices of a range of carers and service users with
insights from academic debate and research.
The Reader is divided into five sections, focusing on:
the experience of caring or being cared for the environment in which care takes
place the ways in which care has been conceptualized
issues of abuse in care settings
the political context of care
Although the Reader is intended primarily as a resource, to be dipped into and
used for reference, it can be read section by section, and the section
introductions serve as a guide to the reader who wishes to do this.
Understanding Health and Social Care will be essential reading for students of
social work, nursing, health and social policy, and for the caring professions
across the health and social service sectors. It is the course reader for The
Open University's level one undergraduate course in health and social care
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Tackling Social Exclusion (The Social Work Skills Series)
by John Pierson
Book description:
The concept of social exclusion is a central focus of government policy and is
rapidly moving to the core of practitioner activity. This textbook shows how
social workers can combat the social exclusion experienced by service users and
at the same time promote social inclusion. Each chapter is grounded in real
practice examples and explores through activities, case studies and exercises
how the perspective of social exclusion is changing social work today.
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Social Work and Social Care (The Guildredge Social Policy Series)
by Lester Parrott
Book description:
Lester Parrott uses social policy analysis to investigate the current policy
conflicts and dilemmas for social work students and professionals. He adopts an
anti-discriminatory approach to policy and practice. Social Work and Social Care
outlines the importance of social policy for social work, taking care to
describe the powerful ideological forces that underpin current practices. The
author considers the importance of anti-discriminatory practice and its links
with social policy analysis, as well as the future of social work and social
care within altered social and political contexts. The text includes a glossary
and useful website addresses for further study.
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Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker!
by Mark Oestreicher
Book Description
Short, helpful concepts, quotes, and tips in this book pertain to church work
with junior high aged kids.
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Burnout Across Thirteen Cultures: Stress and Coping in Child and
Youth Care Workers
by Victor Savicki
Book description:
This book studies the phenomenon of burnout among child- and
youth-care workers across many cultures using a standard measure to
pinpoint the dimensions of culture that increase or decrease
burnout. It examines the problem across 13 cultures, including
England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Israel, Canada, and the United
States. Recommendations for prevention, remediation, and recovery
are offered based on research findings and a theoretical approach
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Effective Skills for
Child-Care Workers: A Training Manual from Boys Town
by Tom Dowd, J. Douglas Czyz, Susan E. O'Kane, Amy Elofson
Book description:
This manual describes a rigorous preservice training program for child-care
workers, one that helps them develop authority, autonomy, and accountability.
Topics include professionalism issues, principles of behavior, tolerance levels,
Preventive, Corrective, and Intensive Teaching techniques, social skill
instruction, relationship development, use of motivation systems,
problem-solving, and youth rights.
This Girls and Boys Town training model is compared in components and
effectiveness to five other child-care treatment models in use. Includes
additional references and an index
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Dying to Care: Work, Stress and Burnout in HIV/AIDS Professionals
(Social Aspects of AIDS)
by David Miller
Book description:
Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on
the experiences of day care and hospice patients to provide a forceful new
analysis of the period of decline prior to death.
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The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: a Collaborative,
Competency-based Approach
by Bob Bertolino, Kevin Thompson
Book description:
Explore how these therapeutic practices can enhance your work as a residential
youth care worker!
The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency-Based
Approach will help youth care workers administer psychotropic medications,
understand psychiatric labels, handle crisis and staffing, and give accurate
assessments. Emphasizing ideas that focus on the strengths and abilities of
young people from the assessment phase of treatment through discharge, this
guidebook will help you take the views and actions of youths into consideration
from a change-oriented perspective in order to offer your clients appropriate
services.
The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action serves to fill in the gap between
therapists and residential youth care workers (RYCWs) by emphasizing ideas that
therapists have been using for years. This resourceful book takes a relatively
new direction in the field by focusing on competency-based as opposed to
problem-focused methods. Many of the major concerns that you face as a youth
care worker are addressed with easy-to-learn and use therapeutic ideas,
suggestions, new approaches, and techniques that are demonstrated through case
illustrations. Some of these competency-based ideas include:
focusing on what is changeable for youths as opposed to what is not
exploring how you can use language to convey respect and facilitate change by
focusing on a youth's possibilities instead of his or her past behavior
using solution talk instead of problem talk, such as saying a youth is very
energetic at times instead of hyperactive
respecting young people, their viewpoints, and experiences to create a context
and climate that is conducive to change
exploring future roads with possibilities by helping young people create
compelling futures,
dissolve barriers, and take action toward those preferred futures
managing crisis intervention while simultaneously allowing youth to keep their
pride
helping young people realize their accountability within the roles of both
psychotropic medications and psychiatric labels
The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action explains several approaches that you
can use to positively impact the lives of the young people in your residential
facility. Complete with handouts and diagrams such as a post-crisis debriefing
form, a level promotion petition form, and a weekly success chart that can be
reproduced and used in various residential programs, The Residential Youth Care
Worker in Action will help you create a positive atmosphere for youths and
prepare them for a successful future.
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