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Examines psychological theory such as development, social learning, humanistic, mental health and counselling in the context of social work. Covers aspects such as making assessments, ethics, interviewing and working in groups.

Taking a strengths-based approach, this book looks at ways practitioners can enhance children's wellbeing by identifying protective factors and positive ways of working with children and their families. Grounded in research yet accessible, the strategies presented will help to encourage positive behaviour and promote emotional and mental wellbeing.

Those who harm it - die, goes the legend of the rare and beautiful Blood Opal. But Pug Germaine believes her husband's brutal murder has more to do with the slaughtered woman in his arms than the curse of any stone. When, one of the robbers double-crosses the others, they all lose their prize. The villains suspect Pug knows the opal's whereabouts. Pug leaves death and bankruptcy behind, takes her dog, and sails away in her only remaining posse...

Everyone's looking for Harry... but when his daughter finds out what he does for a living, his ruthless associates need to shut her up-fast. Harry Tremaine is missing, his wife murdered. His daughter Liz is determined to find her long-lost father. Defying her controlling boyfriend, she travels to Thailand to Harry's last known address, the Bird of Paradise Club. She tracks her father through the seedy bars and clamour of the Bangkok streets, b...

Outlining the challenges of working in a multi-disciplinary context, this book provides key theoretical cocepts and describes how to conduct joint assessments and design, deliver and evaluate interventions. Taking a life-span approach to working with children of all ages from infant to adolescents, the key emphasis of the book is on the prevention of children's emotional and behavioural difficulties through effective interdisciplinary working.

In 'Helping Families with Troubled Children' Carole Sutton stresses the importance of attempting to work with families before difficult behaviour becomes entrenched and resistant to intervention, preferably at or before the age of 2 years. Drawing on social learning theory and cognitive behavioural principles, she provides a structured approach to intervention (ASPIRE -Assessment, planning, implementation, review and evaluation) and guides pra...

HANNAH FORD, an under-cover cop, takes a surveillance job in Draper's Wharf. The small town on the banks of the Parramatta River in Australia has links to the drug trade, so the latest whisper goes. Her brief: to observe, report, and locate its source. When she arrives, the town is in shock after the rape and murder of its local barmaid. Hannah, a rape victim, could pull out, but she needs this job to prove her competence to return to the stre...

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In 'Helping Families with Troubled Children' Carole Sutton stresses the importance of attempting to work with families before difficult behaviour becomes entrenched and resistant to intervention, preferably at or before the age of 2 years. Drawing on social learning theory and cognitive behavioural principles, she provides a structured approach to intervention (ASPIRE -Assessment, planning, implementation, review and evaluation) and guides pra...