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It is essential for counselors and counseling professionals to understand the impact of their personal biases and how these biases can impact the counseling process, in addition to respecting and honoring the beliefs of their clients. Communication and the sharing of experiences between counsellors is an effective strategy for perfecting methods to identify and address these biases. Cases on Cross-Cultural Counseling Strategies is a comprehensive research book that explores creative healing app...

This exciting new volume reflects the strength and diversity of the empirical tradition that underpins medical sociology. This book should be of interest to undergraduate students of social science, medicine and nursing,policy makers and practitioners.

As western Canada's immigrant population increases, health care and social service workers are recognizing the importance of greater awareness of the particular needs of these patients in order to provide culturally sensitive and effective treatment programs. This handbook describes several recent immigrant groups in western Canada, among them Vietnamese, South and Southeast Asians, Chinese, Japanese, Central Americans, West Indians, and Iranians. It is unique in its approach as it provides info...

The updated third edition of the definitive text on health social work Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of Handbook of Health Social Work is an authoritative text that offers a comprehensive review of the diverse field of health social work. With contributions from a panel of international experts in the field, the book is theory driven and solidly grounded in evidence-based practice. The contributors explore both the foundation of social work practice and offer guidance on effe...

This book aims to fill a gap in the current construction health and safety research and discover new knowledge about work stress induced chronic diseases among construction industry professionals. In achieving these aims, the book investigates: the nature and extent of psychosocial stressors experienced by construction professionals, stress management tactics applied and the impact on mental health the prevalence and occurrence patterns of serious chronic conditions such as insomnia, obesity, mu...

Ausgehend von einigen historischen und theoretischen Ausfuhrungen zum systemischen Charakter des Gesundheitswesens werden die unterschiedlichen Reformbestrebungen in Krankenhausern dargestellt. Hierbei werden die durch OEkonomisierung bedingten Reformen, verbunden mit geanderten rechtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen, ebenso betrachtet wie die strukturell und funktional orientierten Reformansatze im Innenverhaltnis der Krankenhauser. Die Reformen im Pflegeprozess sind Ausgangspunkt fur e...

This pragmatic and comprehensive book helps readers develop the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for effective health care social work practice, as well as an understanding of the technological, social, political, ethical, and financial factors affecting contemporary patient care. Packed with case studies and exercises, the book emphasizes the importance of being attentive to both patient and organizational needs, covers emerging trends in health care policy and delivery, provides extensi...

In this provocative book, Sylvia Tesh shows how ""politics masquerades as science"" in the debates over the causes and prevention of disease.Tesh argues that ideas about the causes of disease which dominate policy at any given time or place are rarely determined by scientific criteria alone. The more critical factors are beliefs about how much government can control industry, who should take risks when scientists are uncertain, and whether the individual or society has the ultimate respon...

Counsellors are confronted with a variety of day-to-day problems. This alphabetically-arranged reference book should be of use to counsellors faced with doubts or disquiet, or just needing information. The book offers ideas, evidence, arguments and occasionally advice in entries which include anger, beginnings, boundaries, collusion, complaints, contracts, difficult clients, empathy, fees, frequency, sexual attraction, trust and zest. The book is a resource for students and practising counsellor...