Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Product Description: Research Methods for Social Work, 1e, is easy to read and understand yet fully covers all of the Council of Social Work Education accreditation standards. This is the perfect introduction to research methods for beginning social work students as well as instructors or professionals who do not usually conduct research...read more

Product Description: The decline of fatherhood is one of the most serious problems currently facing our society. While in 1960 both fathers and mothers were present in almost 81 percent of family households, by 1990 both parents were present in only 58 percent of family households...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book profiles three groups of nonresidential fathers--teens, older fathers, and unmarried or divorced fathers. It promotes a fuller understanding of their problems, and offers an array of strategies for involving them in their children's lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book is a sequel to an earlier book, Living With Stigma, published in 1983. The author revisits the problem of stigma thirteen years later, sharing much of his work and the work of others in confronting the problem of stigma. A special feature is the inclusion of voices of people labeled with mental retardation throughout the book. Their stories and viewpoints reflect the central message of the book: that they must be heard and taken more seriously. The book is divided into two parts. Part I provides understanding about the insidious social problem of stigma and its harmful effects on people with disabilities, largely from their perspectives. Part II is devoted to recommending effective ways of confronting and overcoming stigma, and a general approach is proposed. In addition, several projects for confronting stigma are introduced, and the self-advocacy movement is highlighted. Throughout, the book also offers questions for readers to ponder as they consider possible roles that they can play in confronting stigma. This book is written for "allies" of people with a mental retardation label. Allies are practitioners and administrators, board members, students, family members, and people with disabilities. Some allies are trained in professional disciplines such as social work, psychology, special education, and nursing, and others are volunteers. Most important, allies care about people with disabilities, and this text serves as an invaluable source in helping to recognize, understand, confront, and overcome the problem of stigma. (view table of contents)