10 Step To Be A Successful Manager

Lisa Haneberg © 2007

If you need to develop and hone your management skills, this book is for you.

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147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups-Essentials of Web-Based Education

Author: Donald E. Hanna, Michelle Glowacki-Dudka, and Simone Conceicao-Runlee

From experienced distance educators comes this comprehensive collection of strategies for teaching effectively online.

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201 Icebreakers

Author: Edie West ©1997

Group Mixers, warm-ups.

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425 Seriosly Fun Ways To Enhance Learning

Christie Stearns

A treasure trove of practical tips, sound advice and dynamic activities, this book will help you enhance learning and engage participants.

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A Child's Journey Through Placement

Author: Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D. ©1991

This book focuses on the child, his feelings, needs, and behaviors, once the decision has been made that he needs to be placed in foster care.

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A Place to Call Home: Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Foster Care

Steve Christian & Lisa Ekman Copyright: 2000

There has been an important policy shift regarding foster children with new emphasis on safety, a permanent home and the child's well-being. Read about these important developments in the new NCSL publication.

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A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act

By the Native American Rights Fund

A practical guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act

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A Stolen Life

Jaycee Dugard

This is a BOOK ON TAPE memoir read by Jaycee Dugard.  In the summer of 1991 she was kidnapped and held prisoner for 18 years.  This is her story in her own words.

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A World of Diversity

Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. Length: 28:30. Video 1-Expanding Your Cultural Awareness.

The A World of Diversity Videos will help students learn basic skills for interacting effectively with students from different cultural backgrounds.

Video

Active Training: A Handbook of Techniques, Designs, Case Examples, and Tips

Author: Mel Silberman Assisted by Carol Auerbach ©1998

This comprehensive handbook shows you how to design and conduct experiential programs in private and public sector organizations from beginning to end.

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Addiction in Human Development - Developmental Perspectives on Addiction and Recovery

Author: Jacqueline Wallen, PhD, MSW ©1993

This is a book for substance abuse and mental health professionals who work with clients who have alcohol or drug problems. It relates concepts from major theories of human development to the problem of addiction and shows how a developmental perspective can contribute to the understanding and treatment of alcoholism and drug abuse.

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Addiction Treatment A Strengths Perspective

Authors: Katherine van Wormer and Diane Rae Davis ©2003

Application of the strengths perspective to the field of addiction treatment.

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After The Tears

Author: Robin Simons ©1987

Parents talk about raising a child with a disability.

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Anger Outbursts

©2003 Northwest Media, Inc. Foster Parent College

Dr. Richard Delaney addresses some of the toughest child anger behavior problems.

Video

Angry Heart, The

Joseph Santoro, PhD

Overcoming Borderline and Addictive Disorders.

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Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development

Edited by Stella Chess, M.D. and Margaret E. Hertzig M.D. ©1991

A selection of the year's outstanding contributions to the understanding and treatment of the normal and disturbed child.

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Art of Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace, The

©1992. Length: 37 min.

This video dramatizes six techniques for dealing with hostility, resentment, manipulation, sexual harassment, non-performing co-workers, and conflicting job assignments.

Video

Assessing Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Preschool Children

Author: Sandra K. Hewitt ©1999

Written to help the front line practitioner in assessing and managing allegations of sexual abuse cases with children from ages 18 months to 6 years old.

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Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families

Author: Terry M. Levy and Micheal Orlans ©1998

Attachment, Trauma, and Healing examines the causes of attachment disorders and provides in-depth discussion of effective solutions, including attachment-focused assessment and diagnosis; specialized training and education for caregivers; treatment for children and caregivers that facilitates secure attachment; and early intervention and prevention programs for high-risk families.

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Basic Interviewing Skills - A Workbook for Practitioners

Author: Valerie Nash Chang and Sheryn T. Scott ©1999

Author: Valerie Nash Chang and Sheryn T. Scott ©1999

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Behavior Change in the Human Services: Fifth Edition

Author: Martin Sundel and Sandra Sundel ©2005

Behavior Change in the Human Services, Fifth Edition continues to provide a systematic introduction and overview of behavioral and cognitive principles and their applications to a wide range of problems and situations encountered in the human service professions.

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Being Adopted

Author: Stephanie Herbert ©1991

Adopted at six weeks old, Stephanie uses her own words and pictures to describe the love she has for her family.

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Bobbie's Story (A Feelings Workbook)

Author: Brennan Lynn Mars ©1999

This full-color workbook, developed for use with male and female children ages 5-10, may help an abused child begin to feel comfortable talking about sexual abuse issues with his or her foster parents.

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Bodily Harm

Karen Conterio, Wendy Lader, and Jennifer Kingston Bloom @1998

The founders of the first short-term self-injury treatment program in the country offer groundbreaking help for a dangerous and increasingly widespread syndrome.

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Borderline Personality Disorders for Dummies

Charles H. Elliott, PhD and Laura L. Smith, PhD

Learn to: Recognize and understand the symptoms of BPD; Choose the best forms of treatment; Overcome obstacles to change; Find support for loved ones.

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Born for Love

Maia Szalavitz and Bruce D. Perry, MD, PHD, @2010

Why empathy is essential - and endangered. 

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Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, The

Authors: Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. and Maia Szalavitz © 2006

Stories of trauma and transformation. Perry explains what happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress, and he reveals how today's innovative treatments are helping ease children's pain, allowing them to become healthy adults.

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Broadening Horizons: Linking Evidence to Child Welfare Supervision

Rhonda Hallberg and Katharine Dill/PART Practice and Research Together

Guidebook 2011

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Caring Helper: Skills for Caregiving in Grief and Loss, The

The Caring Helper: Skills for Caregiving in Grief and Loss

The Caring Helper videotape and workbook program teaches helping and self-care skills to volunteer and professional caregivers working with people who face life-threatening illness, dying, and bereavement.

Video

Carrot Principle

Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton/Free Press

How the best managers use recognition to engage their people, retain talent, and accelerate performance.

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Casebook of Sexual Abuse Treatment

Edited by William N. Friedrich ©1991

This book presents fifteen case descriptions of sexually abused children in treatment.

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Change Anything

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler/Business Plus

This acclaimed book explains six powerful yet subtle sources of influence that shape your daily choices. 

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Child Abuse and Neglect: Multidisciplinary Approaches

Authors: Mark A. Winton and Barbara A. Mara ©2001

This book is primarily intended for those who need a brief introduction to the child abuse and neglect field.

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Child Abuse-The Investigative Interview

KidsRights Video

Child Abuse: The Investigative Interview helps counselors, attorneys, and child advocates find a way to interview youngsters in a manner that's as effective and sensitive as possible.

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Child Abuse: Opposing Viewpoints

Series Editors: David Bender and Bruno Leone ©1994

How to handle the responsibility of protecting children from abuse is a common thread that runs through the subjects addressed in this book. The authors examine the following questions: Is Child Abuse a Serious Problem? What Causes Child Abuse? How Widespread Is Child Sexual Abuse? How Should the Legal System Respond to Child Abuse? How Can Child Abuse Be Reduced?

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Child Abuse: Second Edition: Implications for Child Development and Psychopathology

Author: David A. Wolfe ©1999

The intention of this book is to inform readers of the relationship between child abuse and various forms of child and adult psychopathology, both from a clinical and a developmental perspective.

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Child Development: A Practitioner's Guide

Author: Douglas Davies ©1999

This book describes child development and how it can be applied to practice with children.

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Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence

From the Child Abuse and Neglect Series

From the Child Abuse and Neglect Series

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Child Welfare and Family Services: Policy and Practice

Authors: Susan Whitelaw Downs, Lela B. Costin and Emily Jean McFadden ©1996

This textbook presents concepts, policies, and practice in a broad field of family and child services.

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Child Welfare Challenge - Policy, Practice, and Research

Author: Peter J. Pecora, James K. Whittaker, Anthony N. Maluccio and Richard P. Barth ©2000 (second edition)

This newly revised and update edition of a widely adopted text continues to address a broad array of issues in supporting children and strengthening families.

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Child Welfare Outcome Research in the United States, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia

Author: Frank Ainsworth, Anthony N. Maluccio, June Thoburn ©2000

This volume reviews the bodies of outcome research on child welfare programs from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, so that child welfare professionals can learn not only about programs and strategies that have been proven successful in their own country, but also successful programming and policies in other English-speaking countries of the world.

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Child Welfare Services: Fourth Edition

Authors: Alfred Kadushin and Judith A. Martin ©1988

This book is a comprehensive study of the principal child welfare services. It begins by defining child welfare, placing it as a field of practice within social work, and presents a scheme for the categorization of child welfare problems in terms of role theory.

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Child Welfare Supervision

Oxford University Press, Inc. @2009

A practical guide for supervisors, managers and administrators.

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Childhood Lying, Stealing & Cheating

Foster W. Cline, M.D.

Practical Solutions to guide children toward honesty & integrity.

Video

Children of Battered Women

Author: Peter G. Jaffe, David A. Wolfe and Susan Kaye Wilson ©1990

This book is devoted to the topic of children of battered women.

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Children of the Self-Absorbed

Nina W. Brown, Ed.D., LPC

A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents.

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Client Violence in Social Work Practice: Prevention, Intervention, and Research

Author: Christina E. Newhill ©2003

The book begins by addressing the general issue of violence in clinical practice, providing an overview of relevant research conducted by the author and others.

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Clinical Detective, The

Author: Aaron Noah Hoorwitz © 1992

This book walks the clinician through the process of conducting a sexual abuse evaluation.

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Clinical Interview of the Child: 2nd Edition, The

Author: Stanley I Greenspan, M.D. with Nancy Thorndike Greenspan © 1991

The second edition of this book lays the foundation for conducting the spontaneous, unstructured interview with the child.

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Clinicians in Court A Guide to Subpoenas, Depositions, Testifying, and Everything Else You Need to Know

Author: Allan. E Barsky and Jonathan W Gould © 2002

This volume provides practical information and proven guidelines to help clinicians from any background understand their role in legal proceedings and participate effectively, ethically and with minimal stress.

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Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment and Therapy with Adolescents

Author: Janet M. Zarb, Ph.D. © 1992

This volume provides an uncommonly useful resource for the wide range of mental health professionals who work with adolescents.

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Conducting and Infant Mental Health Family Assessment

Conducting and Infant Mental Health Family Assessment

Discussion of the methods used to elicit material from families regarding the nature of their relationship with the baby and etiology of the breakdown in their bond with the baby.

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Confronting Child Sexual Abuse: A Video Training Series

By: Oprah Winfrey. 3 tapes. © 1993 CWLA

This video-based training program takes a candid, journalistic approach to the day-to-day realities of child sexual abuse casework.

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Controversial Issues in Child Welfare

Edited by Eileen Gambrill and Theodore J. Stein © 1994

The purpose of this series is to present both sides of controversial issues in a given field, such as child welfare, so that readers are better informed about topics of concern.

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Controversial Issues in Social Work Ethics, Values, and Obligations

Author:Eileen Gambrill and Robert Pruger © 1997

This book has three major focuses: (1) to present different perspectives on a number of current ethical and values issues related to social work; (2) to demonstrate the value of presenting different positions concerning an issue in a debate format; and (3) to demonstrate that controversy can be carried out in a constructive manner.

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Counseling Across Cultures: Sixth Edition

Editors: Paul B. Pedersen, Juris G Draguns, Walter J. Lonner, Joseph E. Trimble © 2008

The Sixth Edition of Counseling Across Cultures contains various perspectives on counseling individuals from a substantial number of diverse cultural contexts.

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Courage to Heal, The

Authors: Ellen Bass and Laura Davis © 1988

This is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who was sexually abused as a child-and those who care about her.

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Crisis Intervention Strategies

Author: Richard K. James © 2008

This book will help you gain the strategies, skills, and techniques that you'll need in crisis intervention situations.

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Critical Issues in Child Welfare

Authors: Nora S. Gustavsson and Elizabeth A. Segal © 1994

The multidisciplinary approach of this book provides the basis for the analysis presented in the book.

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Crucial Confrontations

Patterson, Grenny, McMillan and Switzler/McGraw Hill

Tools for resolving broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior.

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Crucial Conversations

Patterson, Grenny, McMillan and Switzler/McGraw Hill

Tools for talking when stakes are high.

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Cultural Diversity

Author: Jerry V. Diller © 2007

The third edition of the text offers several substantial additions in response to the suggestions of instructors and students.

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Culturally Competent Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families

Edited by: Rowena Fong © 2004

This text covers the breadth of issues involved in working with immigrant and refugee children and families.

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Culture and Disability

Edited by: John H. Stone © 2005

This text includes chapters pertaining to the interaction of culture and disability. Seven chapters discuss the cultural perspectives of China, Jamaica, Korea, Haiti, Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Vietnam, focusing on how disability is understood in these cultures.

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Depression & Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents

Insight Media

Designed for health and counseling professionals, this video teaches how to identify and help young people with depression or suicidal ideation. It uses role-played scenarios to demonstrate clinical skills in recognizing, assessing, and managing adolescent depression and suicidal behavior.

Video

Developmental Play Therapy in Clinical Social Work

Authors: Elizabeth M. Timberlake and Marika Moore Cutler © 2001

The authors have built a clinical social work model of developmental play therapy and concurrent parent work. This model reflects the biopsychosocial development of the child, developmental disturbances, and mental disorders, and the ways in which play in the context of the therapeutic alliance makes use of developmental processes to stimulate change and growth.

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DisAbility Awareness

19 minutes

This is not a program ABOUT people with disabilities, it is about communicating with and relating to people. When you see someone who is paralyzed, unable to hear or speak, or unable to see, how do you react? Pity? Discomfort? Your reactions influence your ability to communicate.

Video

Disarming Violence: Violence in the Field

South Carolina Dept. of Human Services 23 Minutes

This video has received has been a Telly Award Finalist, ITVA Carolina Silver Reels
Award of Merit, and has received The Videographer Award of Excellence. This two-part educational video addresses the more common types of assaults on human service professionals. Developed in conjunction with the South Carolina Department of Social Services, it was designed with input from safety teams, direct-line workers and their supervisors. A 14-page discussion guide provides background information and suggested discussion questions.
Part one, Disarming Violence, a 15-minute overview, discusses techniques for handling angry clients or aggressive clients and suggests procedures for making your office safe. Violence in the Field, an eight-minute video, covers how to assess potentially volatile situations and safely withdraw if necessary.

Video

Distance Learning

Chandra Mohan Mehrotra, C. David Hollister, and Lawrence McGahey © 2001

Principles for Effective Design, Delivery, and Evaluation

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Documentation in Counseling Records (2nd Edition)

Author: Robert Mitchell © 2001

This empowering text details the importance of record keeping in today's litigious society. Mitchell offers practical guidelines on how to keep client records that are legally, clinically, and fiscally sound. By following the advice given in this timely book, professional counselors can help protect themselves from potential lawsuits, assist in court cases, speed third-party reimbursements, master electronic record keeping, and enhance the quality of care through efficient communication.

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Double Duty

Author: Claudia Black © 1990

Help for the Adult Child who is also: food addicted, chemically dependent, physically disabled, a person of color, sexually abused, physically abused, an only child, gay or lesbian, or the child of two chemically dependent parents.

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DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis

Authors: Michael B. First, M.D., Allen Frances, M.D., and Harold Alan Pincus, M.D. © 2002 American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

An invaluable addition to the DSM-IV Library, DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis is a succinct reference to help ensure that you consider all the important diagnoses that need to be ruled out during a clinical evaluation. It is a great convenience for busy practitioners and a valuable overview for trainees. The Handbook provides

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      The six crucial steps in differential diagnosis that must be considered for each and every patient
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      27 decision trees that teach you how to go from the most common presenting symptoms to a final diagnosis
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      62 differential diagnosis tables, each of which provides a head-to-head comparison of a disorder with its differential diagnostic contenders
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      A unique symptom index for DSM-IV-TR™ that lists in a convenient form those disorders that you should consider when formulating a differential diagnosis given a particular symptom in the patient's presentation

The information provided in the decision trees, the differential diagnosis tables, and the symptom index is rich with information, each format with its own strengths, depending on the needs of a particular clinical situation. By presenting the problem from a number of different perspectives, this Handbook should improve your skill in formulating a comprehensive differential diagnosis.

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Early Experience and the Developing Brain

Wisconsin Council on Children and Families.

A three-hour video of Dr. Bruce Perry's presentation at the September 1997 conference on early childhood brain development.

Video

Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations: Third Edition

Author: Ralph Brody © 2005

Now in its Third Edition, Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations continues to provide invaluable advice for achieving managerial success. Ralph Brody dissects and diagnoses common workplace dilemmas, arming practicing managers with the skills to implement positive changes in their organizations. While retaining much of the valuable information from the previous editions, the Third Edition adds up-to-date information and ideas to chapters on developing leadership, planning strategically, solving organizational problems, addressing challenging employee situations, monitoring financial statements, improving internal and external communications, and obtaining funding from private foundations. New to this edition are topics that will make managers even more effective: designing service delivery programs, marketing consumer services, promoting organizational change, developing volunteer programs, and seeking governmental funding. An additional chapter on resource development includes discussion of electronic philanthropy and developing a business plan. The new edition also provides useful Web sites for keeping current on management and fundraising developments.

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Empowering People With Severe Mental Illness: A Practical Guide

Author: Donald M. Linhorst ©2006

In this unique and thoroughly researched volume, Donald Linhorst analyzes the conditions that facilitate empowerment and provides the framework necessary to bolster this historically powerless population's access to the material and cultural resources they need to regain control of their lives. Chapters illustrate how to foster empowerment in treatment planning, housing selection, organizational decision making, mental health service planning and policy making, employment, participation in research and evaluation, and consumer provision of mental health and support services. Case studies from a public psychiatric hospital and a community mental health agency illustrate each of the seven areas and present evidence of the model's efficacy. Finally, the book maps out the roles that service providers, administrators, policy makers, advocacy groups, researchers, and clients can play in the empowerment process.

Checklists, step-by-step instructions, historical overviews, and vivid examples make this a valuable teaching tool, planning guide, and everyday reference for mental health professionals seeking an innovative and evidence-based approach to working with their clients with severe mental illness.

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Encyclopedia of Social Work 19th Edition: Supplement 1997

National Association of Social Workers, Washington D.C. © 1995

The 1997 print Supplement to the Encyclopedia adds 30 brand new entries. It also includes the same search tools for readers featured in the 19th Edition.

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Encylopedia of Social Work 19th Edition Volume 1 A-E, Volume 2 F-O, Volume 3 P-Y

National Association of Social Workers, Washington D.C. © 1995

Reflects the breadth of the diverse social work profession. This edition also includes more comprehensive entries than the previous editions.

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Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder

Randi Kreger

New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells.

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Ethical Decision Making in Social Work

Author: Wade Robison and Linda Cherrey Reeser Copyright: 2000

As social work advances into the new millennium, new knowledge and skills will be required. The pace of change will continue to accelerate. The principals and skills that you learn as a social work student will serve you in the future as a social work practitioner.

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Ethical Standards in Social Work: A Critical Review of the NASW Code of Ethics

Author: Frederic G. Reamer Copyright: 1998

Ethical Standards in Social Work is the first comprehensive examination of the NASW Code of Ethics of the social work profession is now available through the NASW Press. With this practical guide, which includes many case examples, social work professionals will now have a firm foundation for making ethical decisions and minimizing malpractice and liability risk.

This essential source of information begins with an overview of the profession and its mission. Then each section of the NASW Code of Ethics is analyzed, with guidance for practice in areas such as confidentiality and privacy, client records, boundary issues, dual and multiple relationships, informed consent, sexual harassment, consultation, referral, conflicts of interest, cultural and ethnic diversity, continuing education, research and evaluation, social worker impairment, labor-management disputes, supervision, administration, social and political action, and social work education and training.

Essential for every social work practitioner and student, Ethical Standards in Social Work will help you make informed ethical decisions and minimize professional liability in these litigious times.

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Ethics In Action

Corey, Corey, and Haynes (60 minutes)

Basic elements of ethical decision making (part one)

How counselor values influence the helping relationship with clients (part two)

The importance of defining appropriate boundaries in work with clients (part three)

Video

Evidence-Based Practice Manual: Research and Outcome Measures in Health and Human Services

Edited by: Albert R. Roberts and Kenneth R. Yeager: 2004

Emphasizes and summarizes kay elements, issues, concepts, and how-to approaches in the development and application of evidence-based practice. Discussions include program evaluation, quality and operational improvements strategies, research grant applications, validating measurement tools, and utilizing statistical procedures. Concise summaries of the substantive evidence gained from methodologically rigorous quantitative and qualitative research make this an accessible resource for a broad range of practitioners facing mandate of evidence-based practice in health and human services.

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Evidence-Based Training Methods

Ruth Colvin Clark, @2010 the American Society for Training and Development

A guide for training professionals.

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Exceeding the Standards: Teaching with Pride, Poise, and Passion

Bill Collar

A book written for teachers.  He shares hints and tips from his career.

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Expert Witnessess in Child Abuse Cases: What Can and Should be Said in Court

Edited by Stephen J. Ceci and Helene Hembrooke

Discusses the various aspects of testimony and provides recommendations on the role of the expert witness. Written by lawyers, psychologists, and social workers. Includes an overview of ethical standards and explores the experience of providing expert testimony, evidence, and ethical testimony.

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Exploring Child Welfare

Author: Cynthia Crosson Tower Copyright: 1998

The text is deigned to explore child welfare services from the least intrusive into family life to the more intrusive and finally those that substitute care for the family.

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Exploring Child Welfare: A Practice Perspective

Author: Cynthia Crosson-Tower Copyright: 2001

The text is designed to explore child welfare services from the least intrusive into family life to the more intrusive and finally those that substitute care for the family. The chapters are arranged so that, after a brief background of child welfare and the family, the reader will recognize the services that support family life, those that supplement the roles of the family, and those that substitute for what should be provided by the family.

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Face to Face: The Incest Survivors Program

Face to Face Health and Counseling Service, Inc. Not Copyrighted

An educational approach to group therapy with adolescent female incest victims.

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Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making Second Edition

Sam Kaner/Jossey Bass

Group Facilitation

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Family Group Conferencing: New Directions in Community-Centered Child & Family Practice

Authors: Gale Burford and Joe Hudson Copyright 2000

Critics of empowerment models have charged that families who become the subjects of child abuse investigations are too dysfunctional to contribute in a meaningful way to making decisions about how to protect the children in their own families. Apart from its usefulness as a reference manual, this book shows that family members have, in fact, worked together with mandated authorities to find lasting solutions for problems associated with keeping children safe. It also presents current information on related approaches, such as community conferences, circles, and wraparound services used in child and family welfare settings of various kinds. Such approaches entail a shift in assumptions about the way child welfare services are planned and delivered, away from models that emphasize pathology and toward those in which an ecological understanding of the families and social networks involved in grappling with the problems is sought.

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Family-Centered Child Protection: Executive Summary

Institute for Human Services Copyright: 1998

An integrated model of child welfare practice assuring children's rights to protection and permanence.

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Father Facts Fifth Edition

National Fatherhood Initiative 2007

Father Facts seeks to provide community workers, elected leaders and others with a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the social science research being conducted on family structure, father absence and its implications, and the effects of father involvement on the well-being of children and society.

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Field Guide to Child Welfare (Volumes 1-4)

Authors: Judith S. Rycus & Ronald C. Hughes

Volume 1: Foundations of Child Protective Services
Volume 2: Case Planning and Family-Centered Casework
Volume 3: Child Development and Child Welfare
Volume 4: Placement and Permanence

The "Field Guide to Child Welfare" is a comprehensive, four-volume resource for child welfare workers and supervisors to use in their everyday practice. The guide describes basic theory, practical application, and pertinent case examples and examines specialized practice issues related to adoption, sexual abuse, cultural competency, and children with developmental disabilities. The Field Guide was designed to be thorough, pragmatic, and well-grounded in principle and will be a required resource for anyone who works in child welfare or related fields.

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Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization and The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The

Author: Peter M. Senge Copyright: 1990 and 1994

The Fifth Discipline has turned many readers into true believers; it remains the ideal introduction to Senge's carefully integrated corporate framework, which is structured around "personal mastery," "mental models," "shared vision," and "team learning." Using ideas that originate in fields from science to spirituality, Senge explains why the learning organization matters, provides an unvarnished summary of his management principals, offers some basic tools for practicing it, and shows what it's like to operate under this system. The book's concepts remain stimulating and relevant as ever. --Howard Rothman

The Fieldbook is an intensely pragmatic guide. It shows how to create an organization of learners where memories are brought to life, where collaboration is the lifeblood of every endeavor, and where the tough questions are fearlessly asked. The stories here show that companies, businesses, schools, agencies, and even communities can undo their "learning disabilities" and achieve superior performance. If ever a work gave meaning to the phrase hands-on, this is it. Senge and his four co-authors cover it all including:

        Reinventing relationships
        Being loyal to the truth
        Building a shared vision
        Organizations as communities
        Designing an organization's governing ideas

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Finding Your Way - What Happens When You Tell About Abuse

Lynn M. Copen and Linda M. Pucci Copyright: 2000

Children's workbook.

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First Person Plural

Written, produced and directed by deann Borshay Liem.  MU Films

This is a documentary about Deann Borshay Liem, a Korean adopted by an American family.  In the film she unites her biological and adoptive families.

Video

First Years Last Forever, The

Parents Action for Childen, 2005

The new research in brain development tells us of the vital importance of the relationship between the caregiver and child in the critical first years of life.

Video

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

©1999 The Gallup Organization

The greatest managers in the world seem to have little in common. They differ in sex, age, and race. They employ vastly different styles and focus on different goals. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They do not hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They do not believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They do not try to help people overcome their weaknesses. They consistently disregard the golden rule. And, yes, they even play favorites. This amazing book explains why.

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the remarkable findings of their massive in-depth study of great managers across a wide variety of situations. Some were in leadership positions. Others were front-line supervisors. Some were in Fortune 500 companies; others were key players in small, entrepreneurial companies. Whatever their situations, the managers who ultimately became the focus of Gallup's research were invariably those who excelled at turning each employee's talent into performance.

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First-Time Trainer, The

Author: Tom W. Goad Copyright: 1997

A step-by-step quick guide for managers, supervisors, and new training professionals.

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Follow This Path: How the Greatest Organizations Drive Growth By Unleashing Human Potential

©2002 The Gallup Organization

What do the world's greatest organizations have in common? They know that their most valuable resource is human-their employees and customers. And the best companies understand two important facts: people are emotional first and rational second, and because of that, employees and customers must be emotionally engaged in order for the organization to reach its full potential. Gallup research not only bears that out, but has uncovered the secrets of creating and managing an "emotional economy" that will provide boom possibilities for your company.

FOLLOW THIS PATH shows you how the traditional ways to engage people no longer apply in today's world. Instead, it offers a system it calls The Gallup Path, based on the proven, revolutionary strategies of the most successful businesses. You'll learn the prerequisites of an effective workplace, forge unbreakable bonds between employees and customers with the book's 34 Routes to Superior Performance, know the three crucial links that drive productivity and growth, discover the best employee and customer motivators, and much more.

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Follow This Path: How the Greatest Organizations Drive Growth By Unleashing Human Potential

Authors: Curt Coffman and Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina, Ph.D.

From the coauthor of the National Bestseller First, Break All the Rules. This book on tape or CD shows how the traditional ways to engage people no longer apply in today's world. Instead, it offers a system it calls the Gallup Path, based on the proven, revolutionary strategies of the most successful businesses. Helping you build relationships one customer and one employee at a time, this important audiobook offers a unique new path for your organization to follow. All you have to do is value and develop human relationships all around you to transform your business - starting today.

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Forrester Family: A Video Case Study, The (video and instructor's guide)

Oklahoma Dept. of Human Services 99 Minutes

This video illustrates a child welfare caseworker's activities in a family situation involving the abuse of a 9-year old boy. The five segments of the video dramatize the caseworker's interactions with the mother from their initial contact at intake through the development of a case plan to reunify the family. Based on a case study originally published in the Field Guide to Child Welfare, this video has a wide range of potential applications as a training tool for learners at all levels.

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From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning

Author: Richard P. Barth, Mark Courtney, Jill Duerr Berrick and Vicky Albert: 1994

This volume synthesizes the results of a longitudinal study in California of the paths taken by child abuse victims from the initial abuse report through foster care, placement for adoption, or return to family. In tracing the lifespan descriptions of these children reside at each phase: the varieties of foster care; group home and adoption alternatives; and differences in backgrounds and resources in the parental care provided.

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From Place to Place

Porch Productions

Follows three people recently aged out of foster care as they face life with little support beyond their social worker.

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From the Front Lines Student Cases in Social Work Ethics

Author: Juliet Cassuto Rothman Copyright: 1998

Major ethical issues are inherent in the work of any profession. Yet, as social workers, we often confront problems that are unique and especially difficult for the work that we do has a strong impact upon every aspect of the lives of those we serve.

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FRONTLINE Failure to Protect: A National Dialogue

FRONTLINE Failure to Protect: A National Dialogue

Public Televisions highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year's most critical issues. This major PBS documentary series probes into the heart of the issues behind the latest headlines, often with exclusive reports and offers an unparalleled collection of studies in American and world history, the environment, government and politics, military and business affairs and a wide variety of social issues including adoption, divorce, drug abuse, healthcare, and racism, to mention only a few.

In 2001, the state of Maine gave FRONTLINE unprecedented access to observe the daily lives of its child protection caseworkers. Follow caseworkers as they interact with families and each other, dealing with the excruciating dilemmas and heartbreaking choices that confront them every day. Length: 120 minutes

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FRONTLINE Failure to Protect: The Taking of Logan Marr

FRONTLINE 

Public Televisions highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year's most critical issues. This major PBS documentary series probes into the heart of the issues behind the latest headlines, often with exclusive reports and offers an unparalleled collection of studies in American and world history, the environment, government and politics, military and business affairs and a wide variety of social issues including adoption, divorce, drug abuse, healthcare, and racism, to mention only a few.

In January 2001, five-year-old Logan Marr was found dead in the basement of her foster mother's home in Chelsea, Maine. The foster mother, Sally Schofield, was a highly respected former caseworker for Maine's Department of Human Services. FRONTLINE examines the girl's short, troubled life. Length: 60 minutes.

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FRONTLINE: Inside the Teenage Brain

FRONTLINE

Public Televisions highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year's most critical issues. This major PBS documentary series probes into the heart of the issues behind the latest headlines, often with exclusive reports and offers an unparalleled collection of studies in American and world history, the environment, government and politics, military and business affairs and a wide variety of social issues including adoption, divorce, drug abuse, healthcare, and racism, to mention only a few.

It's the mystery of mysteries - especially to parents. Now the experts are exploring the recesses of the brain and finding explanations for why adolescents behave the way they do and how the new discoveries can change the way we teach, or perhaps even understand, our teenagers. Length: 60 minutes. Available in DVD and VHS

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FRONTLINE: Medicating Kids

FRONTLINE

Public Televisions highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year's most critical issues. This major PBS documentary series probes into the heart of the issues behind the latest headlines, often with exclusive reports and offers an unparalleled collection of studies in American and world history, the environment, government and politics, military and business affairs and a wide variety of social issues including adoption, divorce, drug abuse, healthcare, and racism, to mention only a few.

Today, millions of American children are being prescribed powerful behavior modification drugs such as Ritalin, Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft. But are these medications really necessary - and safe - for young children, or merely a harried nation's quick fix for annoying yet age appropriate behavior? FRONTLINE investigates the growing use of psyhcoactive drugs by children. Length: 60 minutes.

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Future of Children, The

From: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Copyright: 1999

The purpose of the text is to disseminate timely information about major issues related to children's well-being, with special emphasis on providing objective analysis and evaluation, translating existing knowledge into effective programs and policies, and promoting constructive institutional change.

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Generational Learning Styles

Julie Coates ©2007

Generational Learning Styles is a pioneering work intended to provide you with guidelines for meeting the challenges of multiple generations in school, work and society.
For trainers, teachers at all levels, faculty, human resource professionals and anyone interested in generations and in learning styles.  After reading Generational Learning Styles, you will be more creative and successful in your own teaching and work.

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Getting Ready for Court - Civil Court Edition: A Book for Children (2)

Lynn M. Copen, Sheila Martin Berry, and Linda M. Pucci Copyright: 2000

This book is designed to help your child learn about court. Help your child read one chapter at a time. This book is primarily prepared for children of elementary school age.

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Getting Ready For Court - Criminal Court Edition: A Book for Children (2)

Lynn M. Copen and Linda M. Pucci Copyright: 2000

This book is designed to help your child learn about court. Help your child read one chapter at a time. This book is primarily prepared for children of elementary school age.

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Great Plains: Native Nations Volume III

Edward S. Curtis

Great Plains affords a look at some of Curtis's most moving and memorable images, with excerpts from his original text providing information about who these peoples were and how they lived. It is a splendid distillation of tribal life on the brink of extinction in a region once rich in game and open space. The struggle of Native Americans who made their home on the Great Plains increased with the arrival of the twentieth century. Curtis's stunning images and text preserve the proud heritage of these native nations of North America.

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Handbook for Child Protection Practice

Howard Dubowitz & Diane DePanfilis Copyright: 2000

Professionals concerned with the protection of children face many challenges. This work demands knowledge from several disciplines, a wide variety of skills, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The editors, Howard Dubowitz, a pediatrician, and Diane DePanfilis, a social worker, together with over 70 experts in this field offer what is known about how best to work with maltreated children and their families, in a very practical, concise, and user-friendly way.

Structured to follow the life of a case from the time a report of child maltreatment is made through the various pathways in the child protection system, this edited volume synthesizes the best practice principles for responding to reports of child abuse and neglect; engaging children and other family members in intervention; developing cross-cultural practice competencies; assessing risk, evaluating safety, and conducting family assessments; defining outcomes and planning intervention; evaluating risk reduction; and making permanency decisions; and discusses the unique legal, medical, ethical, and other practice issues that work in the child protection field involves. Professionals facing tough dilemmas in practice should find valuable guidance in these pages.

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Handbook of Attachment Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications

Jude Cassidy, and Phillip R Shaver Copyright: July 2002

In the fields of social and emotional development, attachment theory is the most visible and empirically grounded conceptual framework. In the growing clinical literature on the effects of early parent-child relationships, including troubled and abusive relations of adolescents and adults-including the study of romantic, marital, or pair-bond relationship's attachment theory is one of the most influential approaches. Among researchers who study bereavement, Bowlby's volume on loss is a continuing source of insight and intellectual inspiration.

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Handbook of Online Learning

Kjell Erik Rudestam and Judith Schoenholtz-Read Copyright: 2002

The demand for academic coursework and corporate training programs using the Internet and computer-mediated communication networks increases daily. The development and implementation of these new programs requires that traditional teaching techniques and course work be significantly reworked. The handbook consists of 20 chapters authored by experts in the field of teaching in the online environment to adult students enrolled in graduate university degree programs, corporate training programs, and continuing education courses. The book is organized to first lay a conceptual and theoretical foundation for implementing any online learning program. Topics such as psychological and group dynamics, ethical issues, and curriculum design are covered in this section. Following the establishment of this essential framework are separate sections devoted to the practical issues specific to developing a program in either an academic or corporate environment. Whether building an online learning program from the ground up or making adjustments to improve the effectiveness of an existing program, this book is an invaluable resource.

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Help for the Helper

Babette Rothschild

The psychophysiology of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.  Self-care strategies for managing burnout and stress.

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Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook, 2nd Edition

Charmaine Brittain and Deborah Esquibel Hunt Copyright: 2004

The structure, the practive philosophy, and the emphasis on information that workers need to do their job had not changed in this new edition. However, CPS is ever-changing and this book reflects the evolution of CPS practice and changing families.

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Hmong Lives : From Laos to La Crosse - Hmoob Neej

Wendy Mattison, Laotou Lo, and Thomas Scarseth © 1994

Stories of eight Hmong elders - in Hmong and English

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Homeworks #2: At-Home Training Resources for Foster Parents and Adoptive Parents: Helping Children and Youths Develop Positive Attachments

Eileen Mayers Pasztor and Maureen Leighton © 1993

This series of three, interactive, self-instructional workbooks can be used individually or in collaboration with a social worker. Ideas and information are presented, and then the foster parent or adoptive parent can respond by answering questions or completing worksheets relating the presented information to specific children in their care.

HOMEWORKS #2, Helping Children and Youths Develop Positive Attachments, offers general background on how children form attachments and ways to help children develop and maintain positive attachments to their foster or adoptive parents.

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Homeworks #3: At-Home Training Resources for Foster Parents and Adoptive Parents: Helping Children and Youths Manage the Impact of Placement

Wendy Whiting Blome, Eileen Mayers Pasztor and Maureen Leighton © 1993

This series of three, interactive, self-instructional workbooks can be used individually or in collaboration with a social worker. Ideas and information are presented, and then the foster parent or adoptive parent can respond by answering questions or completing worksheets relating the presented information to specific children in their care.

HOMEWORKS #3, Helping Children and Youths Manage the Impact of Placement, shows how foster parents and adoptive parents can integrate a new child into their family and minimize the risk of placement disruption.

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Hope for Healing

2011 ATTACH

A Parent's Guide to Trauma and Attachment.

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Hope's Boy

Andrew Bridge

A memoir.

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How to Teach Adults

William A. Draves/LERN 1984

Helps you to teach adults in a group or classroom setting.

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How to Work With Your Court: A Guide for Child Welfare Agency Administrators

Mark Hardin Copyright: 1993

Introduction: This book presents a challenge for child welfare administrators. It has been written for those with special dedication and courage. That is, it is for administrators who are not overly intimidated by lawyers and judges, and who are willing to work hard to improve agency-court relationships. Most of it all, it is for those who put the welfare of maltreated children above all other considerations.

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Hurting for Love: Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome

Herbert A. Schreier and Judith A. Libow Copyright: 1993

This book offers the first comprehensive, detailed examination of Munchausen by Proxy syndrome. Written by leading authorities, it covers all known clinical, medical, psychological, social, and legal aspects of the disorder, including detection, dynamics, treatment, and clinical management.

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I Have to Give a Presenation, Now What?!

Jude Westerfield, Copyright 2002

Let I Have to Give a Presentation, Now What?! come to your rescue. It will gently walk you through all you need to know about how to give a presentation. Inside these clearly written, beautifully illustrated pages, you'll learn how to:

- Overcome stage fright like a pro
- Organize your thoughts
- Analyze your audience
- Write for the ear
- Pace you presenation
- Handle questions and answers
- Prepare for your big day

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I Miss My Foster Parents

Stefon Herbert © 1991

Stefon describes the fear and anxiety he feels when he and his sister Latisha leave their foster home and go to live with their new adoptive family.

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Independent Living for Children: In Out-Of-Home Care

June 2000

Includes Executive Summary

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Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook, The: A Legal Guide to the Custody and Adoption of Native American Children

B.J. Jones Copyright: 1995

This book is designed to assist those persons, including lawyers, social workers, counselors, and others, whose professions and interests involve them with Native American children to understand the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.

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Individual and Family Development: A Life-Span Interdisciplinary Approach

Jerry J. Bigner Copyright: 1994

This text is a unique attempt at integrating two fields that seek understanding of the human condition: human development and family studies.

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Investigative Interviewing Techniques in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Anne

Length: 40 minutes © 1993, Chesapeake Institute.

Packed with invaluable strategies to successfully investigate & validate child sexual abuse complaints.

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Is Anyone in There?: Adopting a Wounded Child

Length: 11 minutes Copyright 2004

Companion video to "Multiple Transitions: A Young Child's Point of View on Foster Care and Adoption." This video is designed for the support of foster and adoptive parents, as well as for the training of professionals in child welfare. It acknowledges that caring for, and falling in love with a child who has been traumatized by abuse, loss or profound neglect bears little resemblance to the romantic stories about adoption often told to unsuspecting parents. Video is accompanied by a booklet offering a brief look at attachment disorders and listing references and available resources

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Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions

Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey, and Patrick Callanan Copyright: 1998

How do the therapist's values and life experiences affect the therapeutic process? What are the rights and responsibilities of client and helper? How can helping professionals determine their own level of competence? What are the ethical issues special to managed care systems? How can therapists provide quality services for culturally diverse populations? What are some major ethical issues facing practitioners in marital and family therapy? In group work? In community agencies? In private Practice?

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Joining Together Group Theory and Group Skills

David W Johnson and Frank P Johnson Copyright:2003

This text introduces readers to the theory and research findings needed to understand how to make groups effective while helping build the skills required to apply that knowledge in practical situations.

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Kinship Care: Teens and Young Adults Speak Out

Length: 24 minutes

A panel of teenagers and young adults respond to a series of questions about living or having lived in kinship care. The panelists discuss:
-How they felt about living with their relatives, and not with their parents.
-The challenges and adjustments to accepting their relatives in a parental role.
-How their parents' incarceration, substance abuse and absence effected them; and how they displayed those feelings.
-What explanations were given to them, and how did they react to the reasons for why they were in kinship care.
-What interactions and supports from their birth parents and relatives helped them to adjust to kinship care.
-What were the challenges to re-uniting with their birth parents and separating from their relative.
Video comes with discussion points, topics and questions.

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Kinship Foster Care: Policy, Practice, and Research

Rebecca L. Hegar and Maria Scannapieco Copyright: 1999

This text is the first to offer a comprehensive analysis of what is considered to be the fastest growing type of substitute care for children in state custody. It assembles the thinking and research of prominent researchers, policy advocates, and practice specialists from several professional fields, detailing their work, research, and thoughts concerning the three topics of kinship care: policy, practice, and research.

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Last Camel, The

Jeanne D'Haem Copyright: 1997

True Stories of Somalia.

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LGBTQ Youth Issues

CWLA @2010

A practical guide for youth workers serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth.

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Listening to Families: Building a Family Partnership

DVD 50 minutes; Child Development Media, Inc.

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy

Video

Lying

©2004 Northwest Media, Inc. Foster Parents College

Lying is the most common child behavior problem reported by foster parents. In this program parents learn to understand and deal with this frustrating problem by looking at four types of lying behavior: lying to get out of trouble, lying to gain attention, pathological lying, and lying to get others in trouble.

Video

Making Reasonable Efforts: Steps for Keeping Families Together

National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Child Welfare League of America, Youth Law Center, National Center for Youth Law

Making Reasonable Efforts: Steps for Keeping Families Together

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Making Sense of the ASFA Regulations: A Roadmap for Effective Implementation

Copyright: 2001

Making Sense of the ASFA Regulations: A Roadmap for Effective Implementation

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Managing Oppositional Youth

©1997 The University of Georgia The Distance Learning Link. Length: 53 min.

Reviewing many of the causes of oppositional, strong-willed behavior, this video outlines effective, practical strategies for managing hard-to-manage children and teens. It includes expert commentary to help viewers better understand how to improve outcomes at home and at school, as well as how to handle difficult parent-child and teacher-student interactions.

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Managing the Defiant Child A Guide to Parent Training

©1997 A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. Length: 35 min.

Childhood defiance - the most common complaint of parents seeking professional help for their children - exerts a tremendous amount of wear-and-tear on families. This video brings to life a proven approaches to behavior management, and shows clinicians, school practitioners, parents, students, and teachers how enhanced parenting skills can dramatically improve the parent-child relationship.

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Motherhood Constellation, The

Daniel N. Stern Copyright: 1995

A unified view of parent-infant psychotherapy.

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New Strong-Willed Child , The

Dr. James Dobson © 2004

Is a willful little darling driving you to distraction? Are you wondering where you went wrong as a parent? You may have a strong-willed child... They come into the world smoking a cigar and yelling about the temperature in the delivery room. As toddlers, their greatest delights include painting the carpet with Mom's makeup and trying to flush the family cat down the toilet. As older children and teenagers, they are irritable, defiant, and seemingly bent on challenging all forms of authority. Challenging as they are to raise, strong-willed children can grow up to be men and women of strong character - if lovingly guided with understanding and the right kind of discipline. In The New Strong-Willed Child, Dr. James Dobson offers practical how-tos on raising one of these little powerhouses, drawing on up-to-date research and years of experience advising families.

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Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Volume III "Your Plan of Action: How to Stay Safe When Intervening Alone"

Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc. © 1999 Length: 28 Minutes

Addressing the justifiable fear many human service professionals face regarding intervention without a team to assist, this video teaches how to outline a plan of action for maintaining personal safety. It considers risks for those who make home visits, those who work alone in group homes or other residential settings, and those who might be caught off guard when alone in a facility.

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Normal Development in the First Ten Years of Life

Geri Fox, M.D. 7 tapes

Consisting of excerpts from the complete version, covering ages two weeks to ten years very briefly, with a short introduction. 31 video clips.

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Now, Discover Your Strengths

2001 The Gallup Organization

Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder® Profile, the product of a 25-year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths. The program introduces 34 dominant "themes" with thousands of possible combinations, and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. In developing this program, Gallup has conducted psychological profiles with more than two million individuals to help readers learn how to focus and perfect these themes.

So how does it work? This book contains a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder Profile on the Internet. This Web-based interview analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your five most powerful signature themes. Once you know which of the 34 themes -- such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic, or Strategic -- you lead with, the book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results at three levels: for your own development, for your success as a manager, and for the success of your organization.

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On the Edge of Unthinkable

Paula Ann Kyle

Provides insight into the foster care system and affirms that it's possible to change the lives of children who have fallen through the cracks.

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One on One Training

Bob Pike CSP, CPAE, Lynn Solem, Dave Arch

How to effectively train one person at a time.

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Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed

Stephen O'Connor Copyright: 2001

A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, ORPHAN TRAINS fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing the evolution of the Children’s Aid Society, this dramatic narrative tells the fascinating tale of one of the most famous — and sometimes infamous — child welfare programs: the orphan trains, which spirited away some 250,000 abandoned children into the homes of rural families in the Midwest. In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, whether orphans or runaways, filled the streets. The city’s solution for years had been to sweep these children into prisons or almshouses. But a young minister named Charles Loring Brace took a different tack. With the creation of the Children’s Aid Society in 1853, he provided homeless youngsters with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family out west. The family matching process was haphazard, to say the least: at town meetings, farming families took their pick of the orphan train riders. Some youngsters, such as James Brady, who became governor of Alaska, found loving homes, while others, such as Charley Miller, who shot two boys on a train in Wyoming, saw no end to their misery. Complete with extraordinary photographs and deeply moving stories, Orphan Trains gives invaluable insights into a creative genius whose pioneering, if controversial, efforts inform child rescue work today.

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Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun

Carol Stock Kranowitz

Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder

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Out-of-Synce Child

Carol Stock Kranowitz

Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder.

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Outcome Initiatives in Child Welfare

Amy L. Gordon Copyright: 1999

Outcome Initiatives in Child Welfare not only describes the initiatives being conducted by the Child Welfare League, but also provides information on national initiatives, university-based initiatives, state initiatives, county / city initiatives, and the activities of individual agencies. Liaison contacts for each initiative are also included.

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Painful Passages Working with Children with Learning Disabilities

Elizabeth Dane: 1990

This is a comprehensive resource that will be especially valuable for social work practitioners working in school settings. Dane brings great clarity to issues such as truancy, nonattendance, family disruption, delinquency, and other problems that often are the result of learning disabilities and that are of major concern to school social workers. Assessment, bias in assessment, parent involvement, and interdisciplinary teamwork are all covered well.

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Parent Effect, The

Joanne E. Carlson

How parenting style affects adolescent behavior and personality development.

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Parent Projects: The Parent Perspective

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A parent consultation directory

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Parenting with a Difference: Foster Parenting a Retarded Child

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Perfect Phrases for Motivating and Rewarding Employees

Harriet Diamond and Linda Eve Diamond/McGraw Hill

Hundreds of ready-to-use phrases for encouraging and recognizing employee excellence.

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Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are

Daniel Nettle/Oxford Press

Looks at the science of personality.

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Place to Call Home: Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Foster Care, A

Steve Christian & Lisa Ekman Copyright: 2000

Approximately 547,000 children were in foster care at the end of March 1999. And the costs of caring for them have increased dramatically. But more than cost -- foster kids are in limbo.There has been an important policy shift regarding foster children with new emphasis on safety, a permanent home and the child's well-being. Read about these important developments in the new NCSL publication. 2000, 60 pages

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Planning and Conducting Agency-Based Research: Third Edition

Alex Westerfelt and Tracy J. Dietz Copyright: 2005

This unique workbook provides users with step-by-step procedures for completion of an agency-based research study. The workbook, in 81/2 x 11 format, can be used in field work courses while students are actually at a welfare agency conducting their research. Or it can be used during a practicum or senior seminar to help them design and write their senior year project or thesis. The workbook is user-friendly, written in clear language with concrete instructions, with spaces to write in responses. By using the workbook, anyone will be able to proceed step-by-step to design and conduct a research study. In this edition, the authors have included a new section on outcomes evaluation (Section IX), and many more examples to follow, including a fully annotated example of a literature review. For anyone doing social work research or field work.

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Positive Family Visits: Guides for Birth Parents, Children and Foster Parents

Northwest Media, Inc.

A set of four printable booklets provides guidance for each member of the family visitation team.

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Powerful Presentations

Bob Pike CSP, CPAE and Betsy Allen MBA, CSP, CMC

39 quick openers, puzzlers and energizers that spark interest and anchor your topic.

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Practice of Adaptive Leaderhship, The

Rondal Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, Marty Linsky

Tools and tactics for changing your organization and the world.

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Practice of Generalist Case Management, The

Barbara J. Holt Copyright: 2000

This textbook is a valuable part of the learning process for a social work practitioner; it will help you to acquire the skills and knowledge you will need an an ever-changing global society. This text will also help you to connect with the latest research and debates in the field.

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Preparing Children for Court

Lynn M. Copen Copyright: 2000

A practitioner's guide. This text is packaged with three children's workbooks to facilitate the child's learning and understanding of the court process. Viewed as an essential toolkit, no professional in the field should be without this volume and its accompanying workbooks.

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Primal Leadership

Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee

Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence.

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Professional Choices: Ethics at Work

National Association of Social Workers. Length: 40 minutes.

This video presents interviews with a number of social work practitioners, educators, and administrators as they discuss the subject of ethical social work practice. The participants speak candidly about topics that arise for the practitioner, the client, or both, and the video presents case scenarios that highlight the "fine line" between sound ethical practice and professional misconduct. Each segment covers frequently encountered ethical issues related to confidentiality, boundary issues, indiscretion, and client self-determination. Steps guide the viewer on making sound ethical decisions and handling ethical problems. The video includes an introduction by Ann Abbott, past president, NASW, who describes the underlying values and principles of the social work profession, and a discussion of the NASW Code of Ethics.

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Promoting Positive Outcomes

Arthur J. Reynolds, Herbert J. Walberg, and Roger P. Weissberg Copyright: 1999

Issues in children and families lives is designed to focus attention on the pressing social problems facing children and their families today. Each volume in this series will analyze, integrate, and critique the clinical and research literature on children and their families as it relates to a particular theme. Believing tat integrated multidisciplinary approaches offer greater opportunities for program success, volume contributors will reflect the research and clinical knowledge base of the many different disciplines that are committed to enhancing the physical, social, and emotional health of children and their families. Intended for graduate and professional audiences, chapters will be written by scholars and practitioners who will encourage readers to apply their practice skills and intellect to reducing the suffering of children and their families in the society in which they live and work.

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Prudent Practice: A Guide for Managing Malpractice Risk

Mary Kay Houston-Vega, Elane M. Nuehring and Elisabeth R. Daguio Copyright: 1997

This is a guide to help you manage your practice and increase your awareness of possible risks and potential solutions.

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Read Me Differently

Sarah Entine/New Day Films

Explores how undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD have impacted three generations in her family.

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Recognizing and Managing Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects: A Guideboo

Brenda McCreight Copyright: 1997

For any parent or professional who needs to work with children with fetal alcohol syndrome/fetal alcohol effects (FAS/FAE), this important guide offers practical advice and solid information for dealing with its lifelong effects on behavior and learning. It covers the historical, medical, and social aspects of FAS/FAE, and details the common behavioral characteristics associated with the condition. Taking a developmental approach, the guide offers specific behavioral management techniques to be used with children with FAS/FAE from infancy through late adolescence. The author's own case studies are used to clarify psychological concepts and personalize FAS/FAE for the novice.

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Relatives Raising Children

Edited by Joseph Crumbley & Robert Little

An Overview of Kinship Care

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Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care

Joseph Crumbley, Robert L. Little Copyright: 1997

The rapid growth of kinship care has caught many child welfare agencies off guard. Relatives Raising Children gives professionals, agencies, institutions, communities, and organizations the information they need to develop and provide service to kinship caregivers, kinship families, children, and parents. The authors discuss common clinical issues, suggest intervention strategies, examine kinship care's legal implications, and offer policy and program recommendations.

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Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Social Work Practice

Norman Linzer Copyright: 1999

Ethics is in the air. Hardly a day goes by without a new story detailing breaches of ethical conduct in government, business, education and the professions. Despite or perhaps because of violations, ethics is held up as a standard in the public sphere to which professionals are expected to conform. But even with the ubiquity of codes in ethics, the difference between right and wrong is becoming less clear. Traditional mores are challenged, contemporary values are changing and conflicts among values seem to be on the rise.

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Resource Guidelines: Improving Court Practice in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases

Prepared by: National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 1995

Resource Guidelines: Improving Court Practice in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases

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Responding to Alcohol and Other Drug Problems in Child Welfare

Nancy K. Young, Sidney L. Gardner, Kimberly Dennis Copyright: 1998

Many parents who come into contact with the child welfare system use and/or abuse alcohol and other drugs (AOD), and that abuse impairs their children.

Drawing on the experience of several models of child welfare practice, this guidebook sets forth a policy framework that can assist child welfare agencies in responding to these overlapping problems. The authors describe several models where agencies have been able to develop effective ways of linking child welfare services and AOD treatment and set forth the pros and cons of these models. The text reviews innovative practices in both the child welfare and substance abuse treatment field, including changes in approaches to families, in interviewing techniques, in community partnerships, and in using treatment outcomes to determine which programs are most effective for which clients.

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Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Metis Child

From the National Film Board of Canada. Length: 29:10

In his short life, Richard Cardinal learned much about indifference. His diary speaks hauntingly of the misery and longing of a young buy who spent thirteen years being shunted through a seemingly endless series of foster homes and shelters. Richard wrote of how he tried to cut himself off emotionally, to feel nothing because to do so was to feel only pain. The effort was too great to sustain. When his resources ran out, Richard Cardinal, aged 17, hanged himself. Much as he was neglected in life, the young Metis did not go unnoticed in death. The circumstances of his life and suicide were at once so extraordinary yet so sadly commonplace that they precipitated changes to Alberta's Child Welfare Act.

Video

Saving Jackie

S. A. Burks

A documentary that examines the long-term side effects of abusive behaviors on family relationships.

Video

Searching for Angela Shelton

Copyright 2004 Searching for Angela Shelton, LLC

Filmmaker Angela Shelton journeys across the US meeting other Angela Sheltons in an effort to survey women in America.

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Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Child Welfare Professional

Pryce, Shackelford and Pryce

This book presents the tools to help child welfare practitioners and agency managers identify and provide practical and appropriate interventions.

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Secret Life of the Brain: The Adult Brain: To Think by Feeling

Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes

The brain is the seat of both intellect and emotion, and this episode chronicles the critical balance between these processes and explores what happens when the balance is lost. Scientists draw insight from the stories of a stroke victim and a sufferer of post-traumatic stress disorder, and break new ground in the struggle to understand and treat depression.

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Secret Life of the Brain: The Aging Brain: Through Many Lives

Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes

For years, science has suggested that we lose vast numbers of brain cells as we grow older; now it turns out that this is not true -- in fact, healthy brains continue to produce new neurons well into the 70s. Drawing on the most recent neuroscience discoveries, this episode presents a new view of how the brain ages, focusing in part on the remarkable strides being made in understanding stroke, Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease.

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Secret Life of the Brain: The Baby's Brain: Wider than the sky

Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes

Less than a month after conception, brain cells are developing at the astonishing rate of 500,000 per minute. The brain will ultimately comprise billions of cells linked by trillions of connections, the most complex thing in the universe. How does it organize itself? What are the roles of genetics and environment in brain development? The first hour traces the formation of the infant brain through the age of one, the period during which it is most open to molding through external influence and experience.

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Secret Life of the Brain: The Child's Brain: Syllable from Sound

Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes

The explosion of language in young children provides one of the most dramatic illustrations of the young brain at work. How do we learn to talk? How do we learn to read? Unlike adults, in whose brains most linguistic activity is restricted to the left hemisphere, very young children respond to language with the entire brain. But what happens when the brain is physically compromised? And what are the physical roots of language disorders such as dyslexia?

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Secret Life of the Brain: The Teenage Brain: A World of Their Own

Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes

This episode offers potential comfort to parents who believe teenagers are different from the rest of humanity by demonstrating that it's literally true. During puberty the brain is a work in progress, teeming with hormones, while the areas that direct reasoning and impulse control are still in development. Adolescence is also a period during which people are especially susceptible to schizophrenia and addiction, two areas currently under intensive study and benefiting from increased understanding of brain function.

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Sexualized Child in Foster Care: A Guide for Foster Parents and Other Professionals, The

Sally G. Hoyle Copyright: 2000

This practical guide gives foster parents and other child welfare professionals information, training tips, and copious references for those who want to go beyond the basics. The developmental needs and normal behavior of different age groups are discussed throughout. Signs and symptoms of sexual abuse are presented according to the child’s age. Chapters include information on sex and sexuality, distinguishing normal from abnormal sexual behavior, treatment methods, research on sexual abuse assessment and methods, concerns about the sexually aggressive child, emotional cost of treating sexual abuse survivors in foster care, and a look ahead to recommended research topics and improvements in training foster parents and other professionals. Sally Hoyle recognizes that those who work in foster care are extremely busy, and condenses a large amount of information into bulleted lists for easy reference.

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Silent Epidemic: Teen Suicide

Length: 30 minutes.

Part talk show and part docu-drama, this program focuses on the epidemic of teenage suicide and depression. The 30-minute program profiles teens who have attempted suicide and their progression in coping with depression. Grammy-award winning recording artist CeCe Winans hosts a studio audience segment in which teens and suicide experts discuss warning signs, causes and prevention of teen suicide.

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Simultaneous Treatment of Parent and Child, The

Saralea E. Chazan Copyright: 1995

Until now, therapists who simultaneously treat parent and child have not had a book to guide them through the complicated issues involved in their work. This book lays out the theoretical base for working with both parent and child.

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Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder

Marsha M. Linehan

This book is a step-by-step guide to teaching clients four sets of skills: interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness.

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Social Work Approaches to Alcohol and Other Drug Problems: Case Studies and Teaching Tools

Maryann Amodeo Copyright: 1997

This book of case studies, vignettes, and teaching tools is designed to help social work students and practitioners learn intervention methods for situations involving alcohol and drug abuse.

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Social Work Dictionary, The - 4th Edition

Robert L. Barker Copyright: 1999

The nearly 8,000 terms defined in the fourth edition of The Social Work Dictionary are used in social work administration, research, policy development, and planning; community organization; human growth and development; health and mental health; macro and micro social work; and clinical theory practice. All of the diagnostic terms are consistent with those of the DSM-IV.

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Social Work Documentation

Nancy L. Sidell/NASW Press

A Guide to Strengthening Your Case Recording.

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Social Work Ethics Casebook, The

Frederic G. Reamer Copyright: 2009, NASW Press

The Social Work Ethics Casebbook - Cases and Commentary is the first ethics casebook, including extensive cases and commentary published exclusively for social workers.

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Social Work Ethics Day to Day: Guidelines for Professional Practice

Carolyn Cressy Wells with M. Kathleen Masch Copyright:1986

Professional Social workers, attempting to fulfill the needs of their clients, face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis and make practice decisions with incomplete information in situations that present irreconcilable and irresolvable problems. Yet social workers entering the profession are frequently unprepared for the complex ethical issues with which they must cope. How does the professional social worker resolve the ethical dilemmas that occur daily while making sure that their clients get the help they need? Social Work Ethics Day to Day examines conflicts in social work ethics as they arise in daily professional practice.

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Social Work Practice with Children

Nancy Boyd Webb Copyright: 1996

Social Work Practice with Children is intended as a textbook for students of social work at the undergraduate and graduate levels, but it profitably could and should be red by any professional who works with children.

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Social Work Practice: Cases, Activities, and Exercises

Kim Strom-Gottfried Copyright: 1999

This workbook looks at social work practice broadly, defining it not only as practice with individuals but also with groups, families, communities, and organizations. It also incorporates social work practice in an array of settings, such as schools, hospitals, child welfare units, mental health centers, and crisis services.

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Social Work With Children and Adolescents

Paula Allen-Meares Copyright: 1995

This book offers a transactional framework that notes the importance of environmental conditions in providing direct and indirect services to children and adolescents. The book incorporates research, theoretical concepts, case illustrations, and practice directions in simple language. It is designed for advanced undergraduate students interested in a more complete view of practice with this group.

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Social Work With Children and Adolescents

Paula Allen-Meares Copyright: 1995

This book is an invaluable, practice-oriented text that offers broad coverage-from a distinct ecological perspective-of at-risk children and adolescents. Incorporating research, theoretical concepts, and case illustrations, it employs a transactional framework to address the implications of family, culture, poverty, and other environmental factors on child and adolescent behavior.

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Sometimes I Act Crazy

Jerold J. Kreisman, M.D., and Hal Straus

Living with Borderline Personality Disorder.

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Strengthening Family Resilience

Froma Walsh, Copyright 1998

Based on the conviction that all families have the potential for repair or growth, this pathbreaking book offers a fresh alternative to clinicians' prevalent focus on family dysfunction. Drawing upon extensive clinical and research experience, Froma Walsh presents an innovative framework for therapeutic and preventive work with couples and families who are distressed, vulnerable, or at risk. Filled with suggestions for strength-promoting, collaborative interventions that can help family relationships rebound from the worst of times, the book provides important clinical insights for professionals and students in a range of mental health and human service settings.

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Strengths Model: Case Management with People with Psychiatric Disabilities, The - Second Edition

Charles A. Rapp & Richard J. Goscha, Copyright 2006

Much has occurred since the publication of the first edition of this classic textbook. Recovery from psychiatric disabilities has become the new vision for mental health services. It has placed a new eminence on consumer resiliency, choice, self-determination, shared decision-making, and empowerment. Implementing evidence-based services has become a major focus of service system reform internationally.

The Strengths Model, Second Edition firmly grounds the strengths model of case management within the recovery paradigm and details evidence-based guidelines for practice. In clear language the authors describe the conceptual underpinnings, theory, empirical support, principles, and practice methods that comprise the strengths model of case management. A chapter on the organizational structure and management methods necessary for successful implementation of the model make this a valuable tool for trainers, supervisors, and quality assurance personnel.

This thoroughly updated edition reflects the dynamic nature of the strengths model. Practice methods have been added and refined and more detailed descriptions provided. Practice tools have been improved and new ones, like the Strengths Model Fidelity Instrument, added. New case vignettes have been added to give the reader a vivid picture of the methods in actual practice. A user-friendly guide for students and professionals, The Strengths Model remains the only book available that systematically translates the ideas and conceptions about the strengths model into a set of empirically derived practices for people with psychiatric disabilities.

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Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice, Third Edition

Dennis Saleebey

Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice, Third Edition

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Subtle Boundary Dilemmas

Sheila McGuire Copyright: 1996

Sheila McGuire Copyright: 1996

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Supervising Child Protective Services Caseworkers

From the Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Series

From the Child Abuse and Neglect User Manual Series

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Tangled Relationships

Frederic G. Reamer Copyright 2001

Should a therapist counsel a former lover or accept a client's gift? If so, has a boundary been crossed? Some boundary issues, like beginning a sexual relationship with a client, are obvious pitfalls to avoid, but what about more subtle issues, like hugging a client or disclosing personal information to a client? What are the boundaries of maintaining a friendship with a former client or the relative of a client? When do conflicts of interest overburden the client-practitioner relationship? Frederic Reamer, a leading authority on professional ethics, offers a definitive and up-to-date analysis of boundary issues, a rapidly emerging topic in the field of human services. One of the only works in the field to provide a conceptual framework for the dual relationship between practitioner and client, this book provides an in-depth look at the complex forms these relationships take. It also gives practical risk-management models to aid human service professionals in the prevention of problematic situations and the managing of dual relationships. Reamer examines the ethics involving intimate and sexual relationships with clients and former clients, practitioners´ self-disclosure, giving and receiving favors and gifts, bartering for services, and unavoidable and unanticipated circumstances such as social encounters and geographical proximity. Case vignettes that help illustrate important points are also included in each chapter.

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Target: Competent Staff

Ronald C. Hughes & Judith S. Rycus Copyright: 1989

Competency-Based Inservice Training for Child Welfare

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Telling Ain't Training

Harold D. Stolovitch and Erica J. Keeps

The book covers:
*Why training fails
*What makes training successful
*How you and your learners can achieve astonishing results

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Testifying about Child Sexual Abuse: A Courtroom Guide

Produced by Guilford Publications, Inc. Length: 35 minutes

Professionals evaluating children for alleged sexual abuse must be aware that they may ultimately be called upon to present their findings in court. This invaluable video helps viewers understand their role in legal proceedings; prepare and deliver testimony effectively; and minimize the stress involved for children. Ideal viewing for mental health and child protection professionals as well as lawyers, judges and law enforcement personnel, the program is enhanced by vignettes from simulated courtroom sessions and in-depth commentary from legal experts. Viewers learn to anticipate the challenges of the adversarial courtroom environment, maximize the legal admissibility of the information they present, and familiarize children with courtroom procedures. The companion manual features supplemental information, role-play scenarios and skills exercises, findings on children's memory and suggestibility, resource listings, and references for further reading.

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The Secret, 2nd edition

Ken Blancarhd and Mark Miller

What great leaders know and do.

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Three Theories of Child Development

Author: Henry W. Maier Copyright: 1965

This study was undertaken in the belief that both practice and research must stem from a foundation of theory. The purpose of this book is to present the theories of Erik H. Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Robert R. Sears, together with some of the implications of these theories for current practice, in the hope that they will generate new ideas, enhance our commitments, and guide our professional practices.

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Through the Eyes of a Child: Reducing the Trauma of Child Removal

© AIMS Multimedia. Length: 22 minutes

Removing a child from his parents and home is very serious. Strong evidence indicates that children experience extreme trauma during removal, which affects their lives forever. Unexpected separation from a parent can feel like a life-or-death matter to a child, even when the child is coming from an abusive home. This program explores the many factors to be considered by social workers and police officers involved in child removal situations. Viewers will gain insight into how the experience might feel to a child, and how best to approach the removal in a manner that is least traumatic for the child and his family. Questions explored include, is removal really necessary? Is the child in immediate danger? Will the physical and emotional well-being of the child be compromised by the removal? Upon deciding that removal is necessary, there are questions, such as, where will the child be taken? What rights do the parents have? How should the child's questions be answered? These and many other concerns are discussed in the program with the thoroughness and sensitivity.

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Tips & Tools: The Art of Experiential Group Facilitation

Jennifer Stanchfield, MS

Facilitation is an art, rather than a science.  By its very nature it is an experiential practice-an ever dynamic process of give and take, learning and development.  Tips and Tools explores the facilitator's role in groups of all kinds and offers creative tools and activities to enhance group experience.

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To Build a Bridge: Working with American Indian Communities

American Indian Policy Center 2000

American Indian Policy Center 2000

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Toxic Coworkers

Alan A. Cavaiola and Neil J. Lavender/New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

The authors help us to recognize a variety of common personality traits and disorders, understand how they come about, and learn to develop effective strategies for dealing with them.

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Training & Development in Human Services: Independent Living Training & Evaluation

NSDTA

The Journal of the National Staff Development & Training Association.

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Training and Development in Human Services: Organizational Development

NSDTA

The Journal of the National Staff Development & Training Association.

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Transforming the Pain

The Traumatic Stress Institute, 1996

A workbook on Vicarious Traumatization.  For helping professionals who work with traumatized clients.

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Trapped in the Mirror

Elan Golomb Ph.D.,/Harper

Adult children of narcissists in their struggle for self.

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Trauma Stewardship

van Derrnoot Lipsky with Burk

An everyday guide to caring for self while caring for others.

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Trauma, Brain & Relationship - Helping Children Heal

© 2004 Length: 30 minutes

This engaging 30-minute documentary features leading-edge mental health professionals who introduce revolutionary new discoveries that help identify, prevent and heal trauma in children.

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Treating Secondary Victims

Virginia C. Strand Copyright: 2000

This book provides a much needed guide for treating the nonoffending mother in an incest family. The author, Virginia C. Stand, uses case examples to outline a treatment model and give suggestions for specific treatment strategies. The context of the mother's situation is further analyzed in this text, empathizing how such factors as social class, ethnicity, age, and education must be taken into consideration when treating these clients.

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Turning Stones

Marc Parent Copyright: 1996

Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets - and his heart - for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.

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Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook, The

Author: Bruce Klatt Copyright: 1999

A comprehensive guide to leading successful workshops and training programs.

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Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect

Cynthia Crosson Tower Copyright: 1999

This book was written to help potential professionals recognize child abuse and neglect, intervene and provide treatment. It has been designed to present an overview of all aspects of child maltreatment.
Every ten seconds a child is being abused or neglected. But while child abuse and neglect are not new, the problem has become monumental in today's society. But why? Perhaps we live in a more violent society, or maybe the child protection system is not working. This book explores the issues surrounding abuse and neglect from several vantage points, addressing both the problems and the possible solutions that are crucial to the proper protection of our children This book provides a comprehensive overview of child abuse and neglect. It covers recognition, case management, and treatment for abused and neglected children, adding real-life vignettes to bring the statistics to life. It details the history of child welfare, an overview of families that are both functional and dysfunctional, and contrasts healthy child development with development hampered by abuse and neglect. Every type of maltreatment is discussed, from neglect and physical abuse to emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and domestic violence. The book concludes by providing a discussion of prevention, along with a consideration of the future. Social workers, psychologists, social services professionals, and educators.

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Understanding the Borderline Mother

Christine Ann Lawson

Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship.

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Understanding the Indian Child Welfare Act (1995)

Understanding the Indian Child Welfare Act (1995)

This video uses a straightforward presentation highlighting and illustrating the provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act. This video is excellent as a learning tool and for reference material. Length 17 minutes.

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Understanding the Medical Diagnosis of Child Maltreatment, A Guide for Nonmedical Professionals, Third Edition

Charmaine R. Brittain MSW, Ph.D.

This book is the latest resource from the American Humane Association, this practical guide answers faq about the medical aspects of child abuse and neglect.

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Understanding Your Childs Sexual Behavior What's Natural and Healthy

Toni Cavanagh Johnson Copyright: 1999

When your child is engaging in sexual behaviors, it can be difficult to decide when the sexual behavior is natural and healthy and when it may be an indication of some distress or disturbance. You will also find that this book can teach you to distinguish natural and healthy childhood sexuality from disturbed sexuality. And Finally there are helpful strategies for reducing the risk of child sexual abuse.

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UW Neurologists on Brain Development

1998

Television shows with eight nationally recognized research scientists from UW discussing the latest research findings. Length 1 hour 45 minutes.

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Visit, The

Author: S. Latisha Herbert ©1991

Latisha describes her excitement in preparing for a visit with her siblings, and then shares her sadness and disappointment because she knows it may be a long time until the next visit.

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What Kids Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids

Authors: Peter L. Benson, Judy Galbraith & Pamela Espeland Copyright: 1995

Kids who succeed have specific assets in their lives-not financial assests, but developmental assest including family support, self-esteem, and hope. The more assets young people have, the less likely they are to use alcohol and other drugs, have sex too soon, and engage in other problem behaviors.

Based on a groundbreaking nationwide study, What Kids Need to Succeed spells out 30 assets-good things every young person needs.

-More than 500 specific, concrete suggestions help you build assets at home, at school, in the community, and in the congregation.
-Checklists help you identify the assets your kids already have so you can focus on the ones they need.
-Special "Tips for Teens: Build Your Own Assets" sections help young people shape their own success.

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When Children Grieve

Authors: John W. James & Russell Friedman Copyright: 2001

To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is a profoundly difficult experience for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Yet, there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy response to loss.
In When Children Grieve, the authors offer a cutting-edge volume to free children from the false idea of "not feeling bad" and to empower them with positive, effective methods of dealing with loss. There are many life experiences that can produce feelings of grief in a child, from the death of a relative or a divorce in the family to more everyday experiences such as moving to a new neighborhood or losing a prized possession. No matter the reason or degree of severity, if a child you love is grieving, the guidelines examined in this thoughtful book can make a difference.

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When Teams Work Best

Frank LaFasto and Carl Larson Copyright: 2001

What the authors discovered in the course of their research is that successful teams integrate five key dynamics: collaborative team members; positive team relationships; productive group problem-solving; leadership that encourages collective achievement; and an organizational environment that genuinely promotes collaboration and teamwork. An exploration of each of these dynamics forms the five main chapters of this book.

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When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention May, 1998

When Your Child is Missing: A Family Survival Guide

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Why Am I Here?: Engaging the Reluctant Client

Length: 44 minutes. © 2002, New York University.

Why Am I Here? features two 20-minute vignettes in which social work students interview reluctant clients and then debrief with a supervisor. Based on actual process recordings of student sessions, the vignettes realistically protray the experience of social work interns working with new clients who resist their interventions. The ensuing supervisory sessions present key practice issues and their connections to general theories of clinical social work. In the classroom Why Am I Here? is a useful catalyst for classroom discussion on the many dimensions of the interviewing process.
The video includes closed captions. Includes guide.

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Why Can't Michael Pay Attention?

Length: 21 minutes. © 1998, The Learning Seed.

Join the parents of six-year-old Michael as they seek to understand his impulsivity hyperactivity, and inattention. After a multifaceted assessment, Michael is diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Michael's parents learn techniques such as consistent schedules, docking systems, star charts, and self-monitoring to help organize home life. Michael's parents face the pros and cons of medication. Gold Award, 1997 Charleston International Film Festival.

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Widening the Circle

John Pennell and Gary Anderson, Editors, Copyright 2005 by NASW Press

The practice and evaluation of family group conferencing with children, youths, and their families.

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Working with Birth Parents I: Visitation

Foster Parent College

Training for Adoptive, Kinship, and Foster Parents.

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Working With Children & Families Affected By Substance Abuse

Authors: Kathleen Pullan Watkins and Lucius Durant, Jr. Copyright: 1996

This book is written for early childhood educators and others who work with children and families. It is designed to provide some clarity and to offer guidelines for those who want to attempt intervention with substance-affected families.

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Working with Children, Adolescents, and their Families

Martin Herbert and Karen V. Harper-Dorton Copyright: 2002

This new edition of a core text targets working with children and their families in the context if their daily lives - in their homes, families, and communities. The authors use a problem-solving approach to provide helping strategies for a variety of problems and problem behaviors that occur in families. Professors Harper-Dorton and Herber take into account current pressures for short-term care, attention to measuring outcomes, family permanency, and various family structures and support systems that include a variety of assessment tools and step-by-step guidelines for intervention techniques as well as guidance for mentoring and empowering families. This latest edition is enhances by expanded coverage of cross-cultural issues, family mentoring, and problems specific to adolescence. Students will find each chapter conclude with a helpful summary and comments.

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Working with the Self-Absorbed

Nina Brown/New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

How to hand narcissistic personalities on the job.

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