Mental Health and Collaborative Community Practice: An Australian Perspective

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McDermott, Fiona

Meadows, Graham

Farhall, John

Fossey, Ellie

Happell, Brenda

Rosenberg, Sebastian

Mental Health

OUP Australia & New Zealand

<p>Now in its third edition, Mental Health in Australia is the go-to reference on mental health for students, academics and practitioners. With a new four part structure, the book thoroughly covers the current context of mental health, clinical practice principles, and the assessment and management of mental health disorders. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Mental Health in Australia reflects a wide range of opinions and perspectives in the field of mental health care. This approach also allows the text to be used throughout a degree and into professional practice. Authoritative and up-to-date, Mental Health in Australia is the most comprehensive Australian book on mental health on the market. New to this edition: A new four part structure Three new editors bringing their teaching and professional expertise Four new chapters: Psychopharmacology, Psychological Therapies, Supporting Recovery &amp; Living Well, and Eating Disorders Thoroughly updated to reflect the current context of menta</p>

Mental Health in Australia: Collaborative Community Practice, Third Edition

Medical Books

Grigg, Margaret

Singh, Bruce

Administration & Medicine Economics

Oxford University Press

Inside Group Work: A guide to reflective practice

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Routledge

Doing Research in Social Work and Social Care: The Journey from Student to Practitioner Researcher

From understanding the concepts of research and gathering data, to writing it all up and sharing knowledge, this book will guide your students to become researchers by giving them:  a confident start with clarity on core concepts and getting it right ethically  step-by-step guidance at each point in the research process, showing them diversity in approaches, the impact of context and how to overcome problems  case studies of how real researchers embrace the challenges, surprises and successes of research  an emphasis on the person in context, so their research is reflective of the realities of social work and social care practice  a guide to writing it up and achieving impact and positive change with research.

Politics & Social Sciences

Flynn, Catherine

Social Sciences

Sage Publications Ltd.

<p>From understanding the concepts of research and gathering data, to writing it all up and sharing knowledge, this book will guide your students to become researchers by giving them:</p> <ul>
<li>a confident start with clarity on core concepts and getting it right ethically </li> <li>step-by-step guidance at each point in the research process, showing them diversity in approaches, the impact of context and how to overcome problems </li> <li>case studies of how real researchers embrace the challenges, surprises and successes of research </li> <li>an emphasis on the person in context, so their research is reflective of the realities of social work and social care practice </li> <li>a guide to writing it up and achieving impact and positive change with research. </li> </ul>

<p>Offering a contemporary reflective, context-based approach to group work, this introductory group work textbook is ideal for students in social work, community work, health, and welfare or as a professional reference. Drawing on thought-provoking contributions from experienced group leaders and participants, the book outlines the various ways in which group work can be used. Focusing particularly on psychoeducation groups, psychotherapy groups, mutual aid groups, and social action groups, it explains that the purpose of the group should determine the form it takes. The key facilitation skills of listening, observing, intervening, and responding under pressure are outlined as are the various stages groups go through and the ways in which group facilitators can handle typical problems. Explored are issues of power, leadership, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and age.<br></p>

<p><b>Investigates how data production and consumption territorialize the physical landscape filtered through Ireland's role in global communications and, as told by the Irish Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, features an installation that focuses on the materiality of data infrastructure in space.</b><br /> <br /> As our everyday lives become increasingly entangled with data technologies, the book addresses the utopian fantasy that surrounds the Cloud, as transcending physical presence or resourcing. By bringing the physical infrastructure around data, and its impact on the environment under the spotlight, it hopes to reframe how we understand data production and highlight the myth that information technologies are hidden and without major material manifestations on the landscape.<br /> <br /> The context for the book is Ireland which has a significant historical role in the evolution of global communications and data infrastructure. In 1866, the world's first transatlantic telegraph cable landed on the West coast of Ireland. In 1901, the inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi transmitted some of the world's first wireless radio messages from Ireland across the Atlantic Ocean to Newfoundland. Today, Dublin has overtaken London as the data centre hub of Europe, hosting 25% of all available European server space. And by the year 2027, data centres are forecast to consume a third of Ireland's total electricity demand.<br /> <br /> The book aims to raise awareness around the hardware of the global internet and Cloud services, which is interwoven with the Irish landscape--made manifest through the vast constellation of data centres, fibre optic cable networks, and energy grids that have come to populate its cities and suburbs over recent decades.<br /> <br /> The publication accompanies and supports Entanglement, the Irish Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale by archiving the production of the pavilion filtered through a series of poetic excerpts that describe the form, components, content and furniture that make up the installation. At the same time the book is conceived as more than just a catalog by positioning some of the cultural and spatial implications of data technologies in Ireland within a more universal context through contributions by ANNEX, the team selected to produce the pavilion, as well as invited contributors from the disciplines of Media Theory; Journalism; Computer Science, Geography; History and Architecture.</p>

States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape

Arts & Photography

Butler, Alan

Anderson, Sven

Lyster, Clare

Capener, David

Lally, Donal

Architecture

Actar

<p><div> <p>This textbook provides a grounding in complexity theory, demonstrating how it can influence and shape social work interventions in policy, management, and practice, as well as forming an epistemological and methodological basis for research. It provides a contemporary theoretical basis for social work practice, equipping social workers to work in a 21st-Century world.&nbsp;</p> <p>The authors argue that the history of social work demonstrates the profession's engagement with the social and structural problems of each era since its emergence 150 years ago. However, in &nbsp;the 21st Century, such things as globalisation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change have highlighted that existing theories and practice models are insufficient to the task of working with the complicatedness of contemporary life in a fast-changing world. Distilling the central tenets of Complexity Theory and the notion of complex adaptive systems in partnership with pragmatism, the book provides practice perspectives and guidelines which build on social work's enduring commitment to understanding the person-in-context. The recognition that social workers require conceptual and theoretical agility to work across micro, meso and macro 'levels' remains central, but the argument is made that their focus and practice must primarily be at the meso level.&nbsp;The authorship of combined academic and practice expertise enables such perspectives to be brought to life through the theoretical and practical analysis of conceptual and 'real-world' challenges.&nbsp;</p> </div> <div>The book consists of 13 chapters organized in three sections:</div> <div> <ul> <li>Part I: Complex Practice in a Complex World</li> <li>Part II: Thinking Complexity in Practice</li> <li>Part III: Thinking Complexity in Public Policy, Research and Education</li> </ul> </div> <div><i>Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice</i>&nbsp;encourages social workers to 'think complexity' and 'act pragmatically'. It is intended for final-year social work students; academics and researchers working in a range of disciplines, primarily in the social work field but also in the areas of sociology, psychology and anthropology; and practitioners in policy, research, management and practice settings.&nbsp;</div></p>

Complexity Theory for Social Work Practice

Brydon, Kerry

Haynes, Alex

Moon, Felicity

Springer

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