sociology

A Community Outreach Handbook for Recruiting Foster Parents and Volunteers   BOOK
Recruiting foster families is a difficult task even under the best of circumstances, and most agencies are not blessed with the best of circumstances. Yet agencies can significantly increase their chances of successfully finding foster families and volunteers by designing a carefully planned strategy for engaging the community in foster care. This handbook was developed for that purpose.

Adolescent Sexuality :New Challenges for Social Work   BOOK
Here is an invaluable resource to help professionals understand the broad range of issues and challenges that adolescents face as they grapple with their sexuality. This highly informative volume addresses the most compelling issues of adolescent sexuality.

Adolescent Suicide : A School-Based Approach to Assessment and Intervention     BOOK
This book provides the information required to accurately identify potentially suicidal adolescents and it provides the skills necessary for appropriate and effective intervention. It includes many case examples derived from information provided by parents, mental health professionals, educators, as well as adolescents who have considered suicide or survived suicide attempts. An essential resource for school counseling staff, psychologists, teachers, and administrators.

Aggression Replacement Training : A Comprehensive Intervention for Aggressive Youth   BOOK and VIDEO
This classic intervention program is designed to teach adolescents to understand and replace aggression and antisocial behavior with positive alternatives. The program's three-part approach includes training in Prosocial Skills, Anger Control, and Moral Reasoning. Aggression Replacement Training (ART) has been used successfully throughout the U.S. and Canada. It is a user friendly and teacher oriented program.

Anger Management for Parents : The RETHINK Method   VIDEO
Helps parents learn to channel their anger into a constructive force for solving problems and bringing about positive change. The video features psychologist and award-winning ventriloquist Dr. Susan Linn.

Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Foster Care: A Research Synthesis   BOOK
What lasting impact has foster care had on the adult lives of former foster children? Noting how trends in expectations and outcomes in foster care have changed over the past 30 years, this comprehensive and critical review of the impact foster care has had on children provides a framework for the critical assessment of trends in programs and policies; identifies what is known and not known concerning the impact of foster care; and offers recommendations for future data collection and research, as well as program and policy development.

ASSET : A Social Skills Program for Adolescents VIDEO
ASSET is a video-based training package that includes eight videotapes, a 174-page leader's guide, and a set of reproducible program materials. The training approach combines videotaped modeling scenes, group discussions, role plays, and homework assignments to teach adolescents the skills they need for successful social interactions. The videotapes feature 32 realistic scenes of adolescents modeling appropriate and inappropriate behaviors with peers, parents, teachers, and other adults.

Assessing Youth Behavior Using the Child Behavior Checklist in Family and Children's Services   BOOK
The need is great in the child welfare arena for a comprehensive and coordinated tool to help with program accountability and to address consistency of service and actual child or parent needs. The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) is a reliable and valid instrument that has been used for many years.

Look in the Mirror: Free Yourself from the Body Image Blues   BOOK
Who is the fairest of them all and what does that mean, anyway? What teen hasn't wished that her body were just a little more, well, perfect? This hands-on workbook shows you how to sift through the powerful messages that society and the media send you about women's bodies and being feminine

Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read: 125 Books That Will Turn Any Child into a Lifelong Reader  BOOK
Reading can become a favorite part of any child's life—even children who think they hate to read. And, with the help of this unique book, it's easy to put your reluctant reader on the path to becoming an enthusiastic reader. Inside are 125 books that are certain to ignite your child's interest in reading. You'll find a variety of titles with real kid appeal—the best of the best for children of all reading levels.

Boys and Girls Learn Differently!: For Teachers & Parents  BOOK
In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian synthesizes this current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how this distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a new way to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities.

Bully Busters : A Teacher's Manual for Helping Bullies, Victims, and Bystanders  BOOK
he Bully Busters' approach is research based and emphasizes both control and prevention. It helps teachers increase their awareness, knowedge base, and intervention skills to attack the root causes of bullying behavior and to deal with the problem confidently. The manual is organized into eight learning modules.  

Bringing Out the Best : Encouraging Expressive Communication in Children with Multiple Handicaps   VIDEO
Demonstrates techniques for helping children move beyond passive communication to more active, intentional communication. Viewers will see training sessions involving children with a wide range of communicative abilities -- from those who use simple movements, sounds, or gestures to those who use limited speech or sign language. Children are taught that they can influence and affect their environment as they learn to make requests, ask for help, and make choices. The narration is very clear and easy to understand. Throughout, viewers are asked to refer to and answer questions in the accompanying workbook.

Building Skills in High Risk Families Learning Kit     VIDEO
The videos are packed with realistic demonstrations by actual Girls and Boys Town family preservation consultants of techniques used in a a variety of family settings. You'll see 13 practitioner skills in action that build relationships, minimize resistance, and keep treatment focused on the family's goals.

The Color of Social Policy   BOOK
This painstakingly well-documented text researches multiple centuries of social policies aimed at the control of people of color in the United States from the earliest years of the republic to the present day

Dreamers, Discoverers, and Dynamos: How to Help the Child Who Is Bright, Bored, and Having Problems in School  BOOK
Does your imaginative, computer-proficient daughter tune out in the classroom? Does your spirited son become headstrong and aggressive when faced with the simplest decisions? Does your bold, energetic child have trouble focusing on basic tasks?

Education for Multicultural Social Work Practice: Critical Viewpoints and Future Directions BOOK
These writers speak to the heart of sensitive matters concerning cultural competence in social work education and practice. The editors have constructed a collection of in-depth discussions on multicultural social work education as it relates to numerous intersecting areas of expertise, including direct, organizational, and community practice, curriculum development, field education, and international social work

Faces of Change: Social Work in the New Millenium  VIDEO
This professional-quality, 27-minute video is a wonderful introduction to social work and its many areas of practice. Viewers will find social workers in various environments talking about the work they do and confronting negative myths about the profession.

The Family Assessment Form: A Practice-Based Approach to Assessing Family Functioning BOOK
The Family Assessment Form helps workers to assess families at the beginning of service, to develop individualized family service plans, to monitor family progress, and to assess outcomes for individual families.

Family Forever: Reunification Through Family-Focused Foster Care Discussion Guide and VIDEO
Family Forever includes a video tape and discussion guide created to help child welfare systems in their struggle to improve outcomes for families and children. In 1992, The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Family to Family Initiative envisioned, among other system-wide changes, foster care reforms that would focus on changes that supported a more family-focused approach. As part of that reform, Prince George’s County (MD) Department of Social Services developed this training film and discussion guide

The Handbook of School Psychology, 3rd Edition   BOOK
As the standard reference in the field, this edited handbook focuses on how a school psychologist can operate and create change within the educational system instead of focusing solely on the diagnosis and treatment of an individual. Chapters have been updated and revised to provide a contemporary view of the field.

Handbook of Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents  BOOK
Handbook of Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents presents current theory, research, practice, and policy concerning serious emotional disturbance (SED) and highlights opportunities for practitioners to serve this large and vulnerable population. As many as one in five children has a diagnosable mental disorder, yet many go undiagnosed and receive little or no treatment for their problems, which can worsen with age.

Immigrants and Social Work: Thinking Beyond the Borders of the United States   BOOK
Until now, the American social work literature on immigration has emphasized one part of the migration process—the experiences of immigrants in this country. Country-of-origin experiences that lead to emigration have received limited attention. Immigrants and Social Work: Thinking Beyond the Borders of the United States expands the focus of the literature, drawing clear connections between immigrants’ situations in their countries of origin and how they adapt to their new country.

The Juvenile Justice and Residential Care Treatment Planner  BOOK
The Juvenile Justice and Residential Care Treatment Planner provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payers, and state and federal review agencies.


One + One : A Documentary of two Couples Who Choose to Love in Spite of Fear of HIV    VIDEO
John and Noel are in a panic. The condom broke during sex, and John happens to have AIDS. Joanne breaks down when the counselor asks about her HIV-positive husband Robert. In their six-year marriage, Joanne has been tested twice a year, each time more stressful than the last.

PACT: Positive Adolescent Choices Training : A Model for Violence Prevention Groups with African American Youth     VIDEO
PACT is a video-based staff training program that provides practical guidelines and procedures that have proven to be effective in conducting violence prevention training with African American youth. The program utilizes a three-part training approach: (1) Violence-Risk Education, (2) Anger Management, and (3) Prosocial Skills Training.

Peace Power for Adolescents: Strategies for a Culture of Nonviolence  BOOK

Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers: Guiding the Way for Compassionate, Committed, Courageous Adults  BOOK
The world before September 11, 2001, was challenging enough for parents of teenagers. Now it is more so. Our families, schools, and workplaces need Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers who will not only be knowledgeable, responsible, nonviolent, and caring youths, but who also will grow up to be compassionate, committed, and courageous adults.

Remembering Tom: Coping with Youth Suicide VIDEO
This documentary underscores a family's grief and bereavement following a suicide. Their strength and resilience provide hope that although we cannot always prevent such a tragedy, we can make choices about how to cope.

School-Based Play Therapy  BOOK
An essential guide that focuses on play therapy in schools
This landmark reference presents an A-to-Z guide for using play therapy in preschool and elementary school settings to help children prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties.

The School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner  BOOK
The School Counseling and School Social Work Treatment Planner provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payers, and state and federal review agencies.

School Social Work: Skills and Interventions for Practice  BOOK
School Social Work thoroughly covers all aspects of this burgeoning field, from the history and function of school social workers and up-to-date, empirically and developmentally supported interventions to effective methods for implementing and evaluating school social work programs. Educational policy and legislation, community-based interventions, and prevention programs are also covered.

The Skillstreaming Curriculum: How to Teach Adolescent Students Prosocial Skills (videos, books, cue cards)     CURRICULUM
This widely used staff training video is designed for teachers and school counseling staff who work with students who display aggression, immaturity, withdrawal, or other problem behaviors. It illustrates the concepts and training procedures contained in the books Skillstreaming the Adolescent and Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child. A free copy of each book accompanies the video.

The Skillstreaming Curriculum: How to Teach Elementary Students Prosocial Skills (videos, books, cue cards)      CURRICULUM
Skillstreaming addresses the social skill needs of students who display aggression, immaturity, withdrawal, or other problem behaviors. This newly revised book offers the most up-to-date information for implementing the Skillstreaming approach, which utilizes modeling, role playing, performance feedback, and transfer (homework).

The Social Work Dictionary  BOOK
With nearly 8,000 terms, The Social Work Dictionary is an essential tool for understanding the language of social work and related disciplines. Here--in a single user-friendly resource-- are all the terms, concepts, organizations, historical figures, and values that define the profession

Social Workers' Desk Reference   BOOK
 An important and comprehensive resource for students, faculty, and agency-based field instructors, the Social Workers’ Desk Reference provides up-to-date information, practice guidelines, and treatment plans that match the needs of frontline practitioners in private, nonprofit, and public settings. Each of the 146 chapters provides key tools and resources, such as best practices, program evaluations, step-by-step treatment plans, and validated assessment scales.

The Social Work and Human Services Treatment Planner  BOOK
Psychologists, therapists, and other mental health involved in social work and human services need to develop formal treatment plans. These time-consuming plans must conform to requirements of managed care organizations and other third party payers.

Social Work Reference Library on CD-ROM BOOK
The CD-ROM includes The Social Work Dictionary, 3rd Edition, Social Work Almanac, 2nd Edition, revised, the Code of Ethics, NASW standards, NASW clinical indicators, and more.

Spirituality and the Black Helping Tradition in Social Work  BOOK
In the Black helping tradition, spirituality is the sense of the sacred and divine, which gave Black people the strength to go on when faced with threats to their self-worth, dignity, and even their existence.

Staying in Control : Anger Management Skills for Parents of Young Adolescents   BOOK
Adolescence can be a perilous time for many parents and teens — especially young teens. As the need for independence asserts itself, conflict and anger inevitably arise. This new, hands-on manual shows parents how to remain calm and "stay in control" as they handle angry moments with their teens and in other areas of their lives.

Teamwork: An Enormous Challenge  VIDEO
This video shows how successful foster parenting is a team effort. It shows the need for teamwork among foster parents, social workers, teachers, and therapists, as well as the importance of community resources in serving children, youth, and families who need family foster care services.

Together Again: Family Reunification in Foster Care   BOOK
The unique challenges of preserving families who have been separated through placement require new thinking, informed policy changes, supportive programs, and revised practice strategies.

What Works When with Children and Adolescents : A Handbook of Individual Counseling Techniques   BOOK
This practical handbook is designed for counselors, social workers, and psychologists in schools and mental health settings. It offers over 100 creative activities and effective interventions for individual counseling with children and adolescents (ages 6-18). The activities include stories, songs, games, worksheets, role plays, and other strategies that address problems, such as anger, anxiety/worry, depression, underachievement, procrastination, perfectionism, self-downing, and acting out.

When Do I Go Home? Intervention Strategies for Foster Parents and Helping Professionals BOOK
The first section of the book, When Do I Go Home? tells the story of Karli and her brother Jon. Karli and her baby brother have been taken from their home. She doesn’t know where her mother is, and now she and her brother are being placed in separate foster homes! The second part of the book identifies the challenges that arise when children like Karli and Jon are taken into an unfamiliar system.

Why Am I Here? Engaging the Reluctant Client VIDEO
:Based on actual process recordings of student sessions, the vignettes realstically portray the experience of social work interns working with new clients who resist their interventions.   

With Loving Arms :VIDEO
With Loving Arms is an honest portrait of three foster families caring for HIV-infected children. By allowing the viewer to see the everyday care of the children, these foster families have helped to diminish the mystique and the fear of HIV transmission.

Women at Midlife: Life Experiences and Implications for the Helping Professions    BOOK
The number of women at midlife served by the helping professions is substantial, warranting a closer look at the practice implications for working with this population.

Working Parents : From The Practical Parenting Series   VIDEO
Provides strategies that working parents can use to achieve a balance of work and family. Focuses on commitment, organization, and compromise.
27 minutes (includes facilitator’s guide)