Product Description: The main purpose of the authors in writing this book is to overcome the distance between workers and the natural environments of children and families, thereby enabling all of the stakeholders in the home/school/community arena to recognize and connect with each other in the task of enhancing children’s development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is the first to utilize the empowerment approach of social work practice with substance-abusing clients, bridging clinical, community, and social policy approaches in order to place individual addiction in its sociopolitical context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Empower patients with culture-specific strategies for promoting health, treating disease, and preventing violence!Current reports show that Black Americans have the highest death rate of all racial and ethnic groups. They suffer disproportionately from a number of fatal diseases, including hypertension, diabetes, and certain cancers. Moreover, violence takes far too high a toll, especially among young Black men. Clearly a different approach to health education and promotion is needed to end this tragic waste of valuable human lives. Health Care in the Black Community: Empowerment, Knowledge, Skills, and Collectivism proposes an innovative model for health professionals working in the Black community.Traditional Western medicine focuses on sickness, the isolated individual, and the material world. However, the Afrocentric values of many Black people emphasize wellness, the community, and the spiritual world. By basing health care approaches on the community's positive values of holistic healing and mutual assistance, Health Care in the Black Community suggests practical, effective strategies for promoting physical and emotional wellness. This comprehensive and informative book offers a solid intellectual framework as well as practical advice. Health Care in the Black Community: identifies deeply held African-American cultural traditions and attitudes offers specific suggestions for combining health care priorities with respect for cultural concerns shows how to gain compliance by involving patients in their own care and drawing on community strengths discusses the impact of specific problems such as low self-esteem, infertility, HIV/AIDS, and violence on Black families develops strategies for preventing family violence by helping family members define and identify emotions shares programs and ideas for enhancing the physical and mental health of elderly Black people identifies ways to overcome the drawbacks of early parenthoodHealth Care in the Black Community offers health care professionals-- policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and educators in the fields of social work, health care, and cultural studies--successful methods, models, and suggestions to help improve health care in Black communities. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Each of the 9 timeless ghost stories in Classic Chillers by masters like E.F. Benson or H.G. Wells will ensnare you in other realms. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Making Choices is the first volume of the NASW Practice Resources Series. It offers a cognitive problem-solving approach to the urgent need for children to acquire competence in meeting the demands of childhood within social, school, and family parameters...read more

Product Description: In this timely source book, learn about real-life programs developed to engage youths, counter urban disinvestment, and revitalize impoverished communities.Also available:Multicultural Issues in Social Work: Practice and Research - ISBN 0871013029Preserving and Strengthening Small Towns and Rural Communities - ISBN 087101310XNASW Press NASW Press, a division of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences...read more

Product Description: The editors developed this important new text to help social workers understand and cope with the current maelstrom of change in social policy. Although policy makers and advocates on both sides have proposed many different approaches, there are some consistent themes, including devolution and the comingling of public and private funding...read more

Product Description: Multicultural Issues in Social Work presents a collective vision of multiculturalism. Reflecting the multicultural reality of the United States, the book calls for research and practice based on the knowledge that individuals cannot be readily identified by single cultural categories...read more

Gathers nine frightening stories by Edgar Allan Poe, E. F. Benson, Manley Wade Wellman, Ambrose Bierce, and H. G. Wells

Product Description: This pioneering volume takes a family systems perspective to aid understanding, treating and preventing substance abuse. It explores a myriad of variables and each chapter includes a case study or vignette to highlight relevant individual and family life-cycle issues...read more