This book will provide students on youth and community work courses with a good understanding of the range of theories that should support their practice.

A guide to values and ethics for mental health students

Measures for Community and Neighborhood Research is a reference guide that compiles and organizes key measures for community research, and also compiles the major measures of community practice and assesses them for reliability and validity.

Counseling Adolescents Competently is a comprehensive text for students and professionals compiling foundational and emerging skills in the counseling field.

A practical book that shows how both Excel (R) and SPSS (R) can be used for analyzing data for human service evaluation.

Illustrated with carefully selected and edited research articles from the leading journals in the field, this book helps to teach research design and techniques within the context of criminology and criminal justice issues of interest to students and the field.

This comprehensive textbook engages in the essential discussion of what professional leadership means in the context of contemporary social work and why this is considered to be important for the future of the profession.

Using cutting-edge research, this text lays a theoretical foundation to help students and practitioners understand the grounding and theory behind strengths-based therapy and then presents a model for use with a variety of client types/settings.

This book applies systematically developed research knowledge to social work practice and emphasizes the "doing" of social work as a reciprocal avenue for generating research evidence and social work knowledge.