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With more than 1500 entries, this dictionary provides concise, up-to-date explanations of the theories, approaches, and terminology defining front-line social work and social care.

This authoritative volume defines and classifies mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment, and research. Authored by hundreds of international experts, the work reflects a lifespan approach and integrates recent findings in neuroimaging and genetics along with gender and cultural considerations.

With a goal of more accurate, comprehensive care, this resource provides tools to make the DSM-5 accessible to all practitioners, including evidence-based treatment plans, interventions strategies, applications, and practice implications.

This Encyclopedia covers the major current and classical approaches to psychotherapy, including the theoretical basis of each therapy and empirical research on its efficacy.

With more than 600 entries, citations at the end of many articles, a full bibliography, and several appendices, this work provides historical and contemporary coverage of its subject matter and serves as a starting point for further research.

This international, interdisciplinary reference work covers the major theories, approaches, and issues in social problems, including how a condition gets defined as a social problem and the ways people and organizations view and try to solve them. Problems discussed range from ancient to contemporary, rural to urban, and personal to global impact.

The 400 signed articles in this 4-volume set cover all aspects of social work from practice and interventions, social environments, social conditions and challenges, to social policy and history. Each article includes a bibliography, and the volumes are cross-referenced and indexed.

Authored by social workers from around the globe, the 110 articles and entries in this book covers all aspects of social work with groups, including its history, values, major models, approaches and methods, education, research, journals, phases of development, working with specific populations and ages, and many more. Each article includes references.

Written to fill the gap between basic consumer information and highly technical professional material such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), this work covers 500 topics in mental health including diseases and disorders, drugs, alternative treatments, psychiatric assessments, and related concepts.

With 160 chapters collaboratively written by luminaries in the profession, this third edition serves as a comprehensive guide to social work practice by providing the most recent conceptual knowledge and empirical evidence to aid in the understanding of the rapidly changing field of social work. Each chapter is short and contains practical information in addition to websites and updated references. Also available in print.