Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: neil thompson

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  • CRISIS INTERVENTION
    NEIL THOMPSON
    This new edition provides essential reading on crisis intervention for social workers, mental health nurses and other human services practitioners and managers. What defines a crisis can often be misunderstood and incorrectly equated with emergencies. This book explores crisis theory in depth, providing updated and refreshed guidance on what a crisis entails and how to effectiv...

    $640.00

  • EFFECTIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
    NEIL THOMPSON
    A bumper book of powerful problem-solving tools and techniques presented clearly and concisely by a highly respected author. Practitioners across the range of human services and managers in all sectors are constantly faced with problems of various kinds. Each of these is unique, however there will be general patterns that we can learn from. This book draws upon the author's ext...

    $760.00

  • MANAGING STRESS
    NEIL THOMPSON
    The Managing Stress Practice Manual, 2nd ed, provides the ideal stress management tool for practitioners across the public sector and professionals at all levels in business and management. The modern world of work is highly pressurised, with stress levels affecting workers' health and little to no understanding of the roots of stress, making workers feel overwhelmed and lackin...

    $640.00

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS PRACTICE
    THOMPSON, NEIL AARON, VERDUIJN, KAREN AND GARTNER, WILLIAM B.
    This innovative book takes seriously the ordinary activities of entrepreneurship and maps out new pathways for scholars to understand the nature, properties, and implications of studying practices for entrepreneurship studies. Entrepreneurship is neither an art nor a science, but a bundle of practices, as Peter Drucker once observed. Curiously however, academic research on entr...

    $1,200.00

  • DEATH AND DYING
    GERRY R. COX / NEIL THOMPSON
    Death and Dying is an important core text for students and professionals interested in developing a holistic understanding of death and dying. Chapters are replete with case studies, activities, key point boxes, and other features that enable readers to develop a sociologically informed understanding of the broad range of complex issues that underpin death and dying. Written by...

    $1,100.00

  • MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
    NEIL THOMPSON
    Mental Health and Well-Being provides a sound foundation for understanding alternatives to the medical model of mental health. Students and professionals alike will find an easy to understand overview of critiques of the dominant medical model of mental health and well-being, both longstanding and more recent, and will come away from the book with a more theoretically sound, ho...

    $1,060.00

  • SOCIAL WORK THEORY AND METHODS
    NEIL THOMPSON
    This gateway text lays the foundations for a thorough knowledge of the theory and methods that social workers need. Pulling together the work of a team of experts, this book uses the innovative “theorizing practice” approach, rather than the traditional “applying theory to practice” approach, thereby providing a much more satisfactory basis for understanding the relationship be...

    $1,120.00

  • EXISTENTIALISM AND SOCIAL WORK
    NEIL THOMPSON
    Existentialism and Social Work provides a clearly-expressed and well-argued exposition of Sartrean existentialism as a theory base for social work practice. It introduces the key concepts and themes of the philosophy and relates them to social welfare theory and practice. Existentialism is a valuable means of making sense of many of the complexities, contradictions and dilemm...

    $1,280.00

  • APPLIED SOCIOLOGY
    NEIL THOMPSON
    Sociology offers fascinating insights into social life that tell us so much about people and society. But what can we do with those insights? How can we put them to good use? That is exactly what this book is all about. It explores the practical value of sociology, how sociological understanding can be of help in a variety of settings. Neil Thompson’s wealth of experience in us...

    $1,100.00

  • LOSS, GRIEF, AND TRAUMA IN THE WORKPLACE
    NEIL THOMPSON / DALE LUND
    The workplace is not immune to the problems, pressures, and challenges presented by experiences of loss and trauma and the grief reactions they produce. This clearly written, well-crafted book offers important insights and understanding to help us appreciate the difficulties involved and prepare ourselves for dealing with such demanding situations when they arise. People's expe...

    $1,420.00

  • HANDBOOK OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEATH, GRIEF, AND BEREAVEMENT
    NEIL THOMPSON
    The Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement sets issues of death and dying in a broad and holistic social context. Its three parts explore classical sociology, developments in sociological thought, and the ways that sociological insights can be useful across a broad spectrum of grief-related topics and concerns. Guidance is given in each chapter to help spur ...

    $3,200.00

  • HANDBOOK OF TRAUMATIC LOSS
    NEIL THOMPSON
    The Handbook of Traumatic Loss adopts a broad, holistic approach that recognizes traumatic loss much more fully as a multidimensional human phenomenon, not simply a medical condition. Initial chapters build a foundation for understanding traumatic loss and explore the many ways we respond to trauma. Later chapters counterbalance the individualistic focus of dominant approaches ...

    $3,200.00

  • NURSE EXECUTIVE
    LINDA THOMPSON ADAMS / EDWARD H. O'NEIL
    This book takes insights drawn from the Executive Nurse Fellows program established by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to promote the idea of leadership development as an empowering force among nurses at ALL levels. It is intended as both a guide for professionals; leaders in schools of nursing, hospitals and other health care delivery systems, ambulatory care, long-term car...

    $1,561.00

  • VALUES-BASED PRACTICE
    NEIL THOMPSON / BERNARD MOSS
    This second edition of Values-Based Practice aids readers to understand the key role of values as a basis for effective practice across human services and beyond. Neglecting values when working with vulnerable people can lead to disastrous and unethical outcomes. However, the concept of values can be difficult to grasp. The authors combat this difficulty by fusing theoretical u...

    $1,040.00

  • ANTI-RACIST PRACTICE
    NEIL THOMPSON
    This newly expanded and updated edition of Anti-Racism for Beginners offers guidance for engagement with anti-racism and anti-racist practices in interdisciplinary areas, from social work, healthcare and youth and community work through to business management. A range of frameworks, based on theoretical understanding and practical guidance, prompts critical thinking, encourages...

    $1,040.00

  • SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION IN HUMAN SERVICES
    NEIL THOMPSON / BERNARD MOSS
    Spirituality, whether or not rooted in religion, is a core feature of what it means to be human. This important practice manual explains why spirituality and religion should be a fundamental consideration for professions that are centred around helping people tackle their problems and fulfil their potential. The authors draw on their considerable expertise to challenge thinking...

    $860.00