Steve Myers

Pete Sanders

Basic text and comic-book-style story lines discuss why people take up smoking, how smoking affects the body, and the various ways of giving it up.

Smoking

Learn to harness the programming power that comes standard with all unix and linux systems (including Apple's OSX). This guide encourages hands-on experimentation by including actual scripts that feature the korn shell (ksh), awk, and sed.

Advanced Awk and Unix Shell Scripting Examples and Techniques

Awk Programmer's Toolbox

One of the latest books in the What Do You Know About series examines different kinds of relationships in the areas of friendship, families, and love, discussing why they work and what to do when they do not work.

Relationships

Judith Milner

Patrick O'Byrne

Assessment is a crucial social work task. Yet there is so much to consider that it can sometimes feel overwhelming. This book gives you structured, practical guidance on how to approach this vital professional skill. In a clear and accessible style, the authors provide both the theory behind assessment as well as helpful practice examples. At the heart of this authoritative book is a set of theoretical maps to guide social workers' thinking and decision-making when undertaking assessment. Highlights of this fourth edition are: ■ insights into the kind of high-quality collaborative assessment that is most likely to lead to effective interventions ■ chapters discussing the specific challenges of assessment in children's and adult services ■ careful analysis of the latest legislation and government guidance ■ engaging features such as case studies, questions to challenge your perceptions, and thinking points to make you consider your own experience in the workplace. This fully revised edition of a tried-and-tested text gives social work students and practitioners alike a coherent and reliable guide to best practice.

Assessment in Social Work

Solution-focused brief therapy uses a range of techniques underpinned by theoretical assumptions about people and what is helpful in promoting change. This is done through empowering them to take appropriate responsibility for their lives. This introductory book is for people who wish to learn more about the theory and practice. As solution-focused work developed in therapeutic contexts, many examples are drawn from encounters between counselors in various settings and people who come to them by various routes. But importantly, the book also includes examples that show how solution-focused approaches can be used by social, care, community, and justice workers going about their work in statutory and voluntary agencies with the different demands that these make. The book outlines the theoretical influences on solution-focused approaches and contrasts them with more traditional approaches. It allows the reader to think about what informs their current practice and how a solution-focused approach may be different, giving ideas for developing practice in a reflective way. It outlines the practice principles and techniques involved in solution-focused work, using an interview structure that provides a logical flow of ideas. Additionally, the book outlines some outcome studies and evidence for effectiveness of solution-focused approaches, with a further section on useful websites and further reading.

Solution-focused Approaches

Barbara Legge

Ash Arceneaux

Esther Marie only wants to help a homeless little girl, but her family and fiance strongly object. Threatened with commitment and declared incompetent, she consents to being treated by a quack doctor. Her only hope for escape, in a time where women are powerless, is with a mysterious stranger. However, the stranger is on a private mission that involves carrying a gun, and a cell of anarchists are building a bomb. She is caught in a time when the forces of power and rebellion are ready to collide and explode."

Steve Myers

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