Solution-oriented Social Work Practice
Too often in practice, there is a tendency to pathologize clients, requiring a diagnosis as part of the helping relationship. Suppose, however, that most of the client problems that social workers encounter have more to do with the vagaries of life and not with what clients are doing wrong. This powerful idea is the philosophy behind the strengths-based approaches to social work. This groundbreaking practice handbook takes this concept one step further, combining the different strengths-based approaches into an overarching model of solution-oriented social work for greater impact. The strengths perspective emphasizes client strengths, goal-setting, and a shared definition of positive outcome. Solution-focused therapy approaches ongoing problems when they have temporarily abated, amplifying exceptions as solutions. This natural but rarely explored pairing is one component in the challenging and effective practice framework presented here by the authors, two seasoned practitioners with over 50 years of combined experience. By integrating the most useful aspects of the major approaches, a step-by-step plan for action emerges. With this text in hand, you will: - Integrate elements from the strengths perspective, solution-focused therapy, narrative therapy, and the strategic therapy of the Mental Research Institute (the MRI approach) into an effective and eclectic framework - Build and practice your skills using case examples, transcripts, and practical advice - Equip yourself with the tools you need to emphasize clients' strengths - Challenge the diagnosis-first medical model of behavioral health care - Collaborate with clients to get past thinking (first-order change), and more to acting "outside the box" (second-order change) - Learn to work with a wide variety of clients, including individuals, groups, and families; involuntary clients; clients with severe mental illness; and clients in crisis For any student or practitioner interested in working with clients towards collaborative and empowering change, this is the essential text.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Human Resource Management
You’re no idiot, of course. You know that your employees are essential to your company’s success. But when it comes to training, motivating, hiring, and firing them, you feel like a few of the many hats you wear don’t fit as well as they should. Don’t outsource your HR function just yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Human Resource Management will simplify everything you need to know about the people business. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you learn: • How to locate, hire, and retain the most qualified people for positions. • What you need to know about the law and regulations to avoid costly legal battles. • How to organize and administer an effective compensation and benefits plan. • Training tools and techniques to boost employee motivation and performance.
The Complete Idiot's Guide To Managing People, 3e
Tap the talent and get the most from your team. The solution to every new manager's problems, this fully updated and revised guide shows how to get the most and the best from one's staff and covers leadership, team management, delegation, reward/discipline systems and more. New to this edition: updated information on working with employees on goal and career management, downsizing and laying off employees, sexual harassment and EOE, interviewing techniques, and more. Updated and revised with updates on layoffs, sexual harassment, interviewing, and more. Pell is an expert in his field, with 50 years in HR and teaching experience.
Rosie, Bara, Gerry & Tom
Rosie, 24, daughter of a Herero mother and a Cuban soldier, is a refugee from Namibia. She lived with Tom, 42, a down-and-out sculptor, in a North London squat for some weeks when Tom runs into his old friend Gerry. Tom spent years with Gerry, 52, in Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Their chance meeting triggers Tom’s decision to visit Gerry at his home in Bray-on-Thames. There Tom meets Gerry’s wife Bara, 33, who Gerry just deserted. Then Gerry meets Rosie. Bara lets Tom stay in her spare room and they become lovers. Together they start an art gallery. Bara gets elected as a local councillor and later becomes an MP. Rosie, Bara, Gerry & Tom: A novel shares the lives of this foursome from 1995 to 2016. The ramifications and consequences of their chance meetings include a fateful visit to Namibia by Rosie and Gerry; the imprisonment of Gerry for fraud; and Tom ending up homeless again, when Bara sells their home and the gallery, and goes to live in Italy with her girlfriend.
Perpetuation
Tom Brokaw called them The Greatest Generation, these veterans of World War II. They were the young innocents who left their farms, their small towns and big cities to engage in the most devastating war the world has ever seen. A war that would forever change their lives, as it would the world, and, most of all, the United States. Perpetuation is the story of how three families, specifically their three sons and their friends, made the transition from their Irish Catholic roots in Astoria, New York, to the battlefields of Europe and then home to the uncertainty of civilian life in the aftermath of this terrible war. Three childhood comrades, Mike McCann, Tom Finn and John Kelly, along with their families and friends provide an interwoven story of love, hate, danger and, most of all, the passion of people striving to succeed in a post-war environment.
