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Social Work
Featured titles in Social Work
- Experienced community organizer and professor Patricia Spindel provides a practical guide for producing change through community action and social activism in the updated second edition of Changing Communities. Spindel explores who has power in society and how communities can ... more
- Taking a unique look at health promotion and aging in Canada, this edited collection uses the action framework in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to explore the factors and issues related to the health of older adults. The book is organized around the five action areas... more
Promoting the Health of Older Adults
The Canadian Experience
Irving Rootman, Peggy Edwards, Mélanie Levasseur, Frances Grunberg
- Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion offers a comprehensive selection of chapters written by academic researchers as well as direct practitioners and mental health consumer-survivors to examine the intersection of poverty, mental health, and social exclusion. With the ... more
Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion
Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik
- In its second edition, this accessible health and human services manual offers a critical overview of the issues and challenges that families face and provides practical strategies for promoting resilience and positive family functioning. Through clinical and sociological pers... more
Working with Families, Second Edition
A Guide for Health and Human Services Professionals
Patricia Spindel
- September 2022
- 9781773383309
- $64.95 Print
- August 2022
- 9781773382524
- $94.95 Print
A Concise Introduction to Mental Health in Canada, Third Edition
Emily Jenkins, Allie Slemon, Dan Bilsker, Elliot Goldner
- May 2022
- 9781773382944
- $64.95 Print
- $59.95 Digital
- December 2021
- 9780889616295
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Gendered Bodies and Public Scrutiny
Women’s Stories of Staring, Strangers, and Fierce Resistance
Victoria Kannen
- August 2021
- 9781773382463
- $44.95 Print
- $39.95 Digital
- August 2021
- 9780889616257
- $54.95 Print
- $49.95 Digital
Trans Youth Stories
An Intergenerational Dialogue after the "Trans Tipping Point"
Dr. Lindsay Herriot, Kate Fry
- July 2021
- 9781773382401
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
Promoting the Health of Older Adults
The Canadian Experience
Irving Rootman, Peggy Edwards, Mélanie Levasseur, Frances Grunberg
- June 2021
- 9781773382555
- $74.95 Print
- $69.95 Digital
Protecting Children
Theoretical and Practical Aspects
Kathleen Kufeldt, Barbara Fallon, Brad McKenzie
- April 2021
- 9781773382296
- $87.95 Print
- $82.95 Digital
- March 2021
- 9781773382234
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital
Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion
Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik
- December 2020
- 9781773382104
- $47.95 Print
- $42.95 Digital
Case Management from an Empowerment Perspective, Fourth Edition
A Guide for Health and Human Services Professionals
Patricia Spindel
- October 2020
- 9781773382012
- $74.95 Print
- $69.95 Digital
Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Canadian Context
An Introduction
Kimberly Maich, Sharon C. Penney, Kelly Alves, Carmen Hall
- July 2020
- 9781773382043
- $85.95 Print
- $80.95 Digital
Introduction to Mental Health for Child and Youth Care
Patti Ranahan, Stanley Kutcher, Mina Hashish
- May 2020
- 9781773381695
- $63.95 Print
- $58.95 Digital
- April 2020
- 9781773381848
- $58.95 Print
- $53.95 Digital
Working with Families, Second Edition
A Guide for Health and Human Services Professionals
Patricia Spindel
- November 2019
- 9781773381183
- $74.95 Print
- $69.95 Digital
Spirituality and Social Justice
Spirit in the Political Quest for a Just World
Norma Jean Profitt, Cyndy Baskin
- November 2019
- 9781773381602
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
The Essential Guide to Psychoactive Drugs in Canada, Second Edition
A Resource for Counselling Professionals
Rick Csiernik
- May 2019
- 9781773381213
- $79.95 Print
- $74.95 Digital