Books related to your course can be found on Level 1 (link to map) in:
Browse the shelves at these call numbers:
| Addiction | 362.29 |
| Ageing | 305.26 |
| Communities | 307 |
| Counseling & Interviewing | 158.3 |
| Depression & Anxiety | 362.2 |
| Disabilities | 362.3, 362.4, 616.8588 |
| Families (includes marriage & parenting) | 306.8, 362.82 |
| Mental Health | 362.2 |
| Organisational Behaviour | 302.35 |
| Psychology | 150 |
| Psychotherapy | 616.8914 |
| Social Services | 361-362 |
| Sociology | 301 |
| Youth & Youth Social Problems | 305.235, 362.7 |
The World is Not Big Enough
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The World Is Not Big Enough is the story of one woman's journey to understand the human side of a broken system.
Developing secure attachment through play : helping vulnerable children to build their emotional and social wellbeing
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"Developing Secure Attachment Through Play offers a range of imaginative and engaging play-based activities, designed to help vulnerable young children forge safe attachments with their caregivers.
The Greater Me Cards
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This conversational tool made up of 52 cards and accompanying guidance, helps young people build their advocacy skills by establishing their own strengths and needs.
Basic Personal Counselling, 9th ed.
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Basic Personal Counselling is an easy to read introduction to counselling that reflects current best practice. This ninth edition of Basic Personal Counselling includes new content on self-care and the use of technology in counselling, as well as examples of counselling skills in practice.
Diversity in clinical practice : a practical and shame-free guide to reducing cultural offenses and repairing cross-cultural relationships
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Too often, therapists and other helping professionals feel paralyzed by the fear that they don’t know enough about other cultural groups to counsel clients different than themselves. In his debut book, Diversity in Clinical Practice, Lambers Fisher sets out to mitigate these fears by providing a framework for professionals to better understand the experiences of cultural groups with whom they are not personally or professionally familiar.
Social Work with Autistic People
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This book will help social workers and practitioners to find achievable solutions to support autistic people - including those with complex needs - to live fulfilling lives in their communities.
My Body Keeps Your Secrets
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A widely researched and boldly argued work about reclaiming our bodies from shame from a key intersectional feminist thinker of a new generation.
Working with Domestic Violence and Abuse Across the Lifecourse
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Spanning children's and adult's services, this book explores the nature and impact of domestic abuse and violence (DVA) throughout the lifecourse. It highlights evidence-informed practice and serves as an accessible and invaluable resource for all working with and supporting those dealing with DVA.
Human Rights and Social Work
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Ethical basics for the caring professions : knowledge and skills for thoughtful practice
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This book trains students of the caring professions across health and social care in the basic philosophical skills and knowledge needed to deal with the ethical aspects of their profession, by showing why ethical education is required.
Interprofessional Ethics
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Interprofessional Ethics explores the ethical frameworks, policies and procedures of professional practice for multidisciplinary teams in health, government and community-based workplaces. The second edition includes content on criminology, environmental practice, youth work practice, the intersection of law and ethics, and cultural content, including non-Western philosophies and Indigenous worldviews.
Professional Boundaries in Social Work and Social Care
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This book is a no-nonsense guide to boundaries - what they are, why they are there and how to maintain them, from legal boundaries and policies governing behaviour to rules surrounding confidentiality.
The a-Z of Therapeutic Parenting Professional Companion
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This tried and tested resource offers practical tools for all professionals supporting therapeutic families. Based on the latest research, and with photocopiable worksheets, pro formas and charts to use with parents, these tools will help you to build supportive and stable relationships with families and reduce family breakdown.
Children, Families and Communities
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Suicide in Intersex, Trans and Other Sex and/or Gender Diverse Groups: A Health Professional's Guide
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This is the first book for sexologists, sex therapists, psychiatrists, family doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, naturopaths and healthcare managers on suicide prevention with intersex, trans and gender non-conforming clients.
Coping with Grief
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The go-to book on the grieving process. This new edition of the bestselling classic offers sensitive and practical advice on how to deal with the grieving process, from coping with the funeral to managing anniversaries and special dates. Suitable for both the bereaved and their support team, it explains what to expect emotionally, psychologically and practically from the first day through the first year, as well as outlining the physical and emotional reactions to grief, why men and women react differently, how children deal with grief, and some of the long-term consequences of bereavement.
The Creative Toolkit for Working with Grief and Bereavement
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Understanding loss and its effects is integral to effective counseling and support in the treatment of grief. This book is both a guide to the key theories of bereavement, and a practical workbook that can be used with clients to help them understand and work through their grief in a positive, transformative way.
The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication
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People Skills
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This popular textbook provides an up-to-date guide to the knowledge and skills required for working successfully with people.
Broken : children parents and family courts
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'What happens to kids in our family law system should be a national scandal - and yet, so few people know about it. This book finally lifts the lid on this broken system, and shows how this once-great institution now regularly orders children to see or live with dangerous parents, and bankrupts the victim-parents trying to protect them.
Family Law
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Written in clear, straight-forward language, the authors explain the principles, and highlight key cases and legislative provisions for family law.
Separate ways : surviving post-separation grief, the stress of divorce or separation, and the family law process
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In Separate Ways, Shaya Lewis-Dermody explores the concepts of loss and grief following your relationship breakdown. You'll discover:
-An understanding of the stages of grief and loss in the context of separation, which, in turn, will help you to understand that it is okay to grieve.
-Strategies to survive this period, including insights and tips from mental health professionals who work with separated families.
-Practical advice from the perspective of an experienced family lawyer, including how to navigate the family law system.
Mental : everything you never knew you needed to know about mental health
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Practitioner and professor of psychiatry Dr Steve Ellen and popular comedian Catherine Deveny combine forces to demystify the world of mental health. Sharing their personal experiences of mental illness and an insider perspective on psychiatry, they unpack the current knowledge about conditions and treatments.
Social Work Practice in Mental Health,3rd edition
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This new edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health builds on the underpinning principles of the previous editions, whilst reflecting how the context for practice has steadily evolved. Organised into two parts and eleven chapters, the book focuses on recovery theory, the importance of relationship and examining the social context and the consequences of illness.
Mental Health a Pocket Guide
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This highly valued quick reference guide returns in its fourth edition to provide practical and helpful strategies for responding effectively to those in crisis.
Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Mental Health and Wellbeing is a timely new book that explores these increasingly important subjects from an intercultural perspective. This is essential reading for anyone studying or working in mental health at this time of unprecedented levels of human migration and when mutual understanding of diverse cultural perspectives is of vital importance.
Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfare
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The fully revised and updated third edition of a successful text introducing students across the human services to key practice skills.
Community services intervention : an introduction to direct practice
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A comprehensive introduction to theory, models and principles of practice for direct social casework in the community services.
How to Argue with a Racist
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HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST is a vital manifesto for a twenty-first century understanding of human evolution and variation, and a timely weapon against the misuse of science to justify bigotry.
Me and White Supremacy
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'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds white privilege, the question you should be asking isn't whether or not this is true, but rather, what are you going to do about it?' Between June and July 2018, Layla Saad ran a 28-day Instagram challenge under the hashtag #MeAndWhiteSupremacy, for people with white privilege to unflinchingly examine the ways that they are complicit in upholding the oppressive system of white supremacy.
The Body Keeps the Score
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A world expert presents a sympathetic exploration of the causes of trauma and the new treatments making it possible for sufferers to reclaim their lives What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress.
Healing Trauma in Children: a Practical Guide for Foster and Kinship Carers
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Foster and kinship carers play a vital role in our community. Their task is not an easy one. Most children in care do not settle quickly and can become disruptive, affecting the entire family. Many carers are unprepared for the level of support and intensive focus and effort that these children need.
Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress
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"Reducing Secondary Trauma presents a model for supporting emotional well-being in workers who are exposed to the effects of secondary trauma. The book provides helping professionals with a portfolio of skills that support emotion regulation and recovery from secondary trauma exposure and also that enhance the experience of the helping encounter.
A treasure box for creating trauma-informed organizations : a ready-to-use resource for trauma, adversity, and culturally informed, infused, and responsive systems
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This Treasure Box book is packed full of valuable resources from bestselling and award-winning author, trainer, organizational consultant, and Clinical Psychologist Dr. Karen Treisman, and will show you how to weave a deep understanding of trauma and adversity into the daily practice and the whole fabric of your organization.
Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs
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This new edition of Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs provides detailed descriptions of techniques, ample case studies, fascinating and easy to understand explanations of research, and rich stories of how social workers, psychologists, counselors, child and youth care workers, and other mental health professionals can help young people become more resilient. Fully updated and including new discussions of trauma, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), resilience, genetic susceptibility to stress, the impact of migration and natural disasters on families, and much more, Dr. Ungar shows why we need to work just as hard changing the environments that surround children as we do changing children themselves.
You're Not Broken
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In one way or another, we all carry trauma. It can manifest as anxiety, shame, low self-esteem, over-eating, under-eating, addiction, depression, confusion, people-pleasing, under-earning, low mood, negative thinking, social anxiety, anger, brain fog and more.
Trauma and Attachment: Over 150 Attachment-based Interventions to Heal Trauma
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In this comprehensive yet accessible book, Dr. Reese provides an attachment framework for treating clients who have experienced a multitude of traumas, ranging from abuse and neglect to medical traumas, natural disasters, and exposure to violence.
