Human Services Technology

This book examines housing policy in the U.S., focusing on racial exclusion, economic and social tensions, and the impact of public policy on housing access. It explores historical and contemporary debates, emphasizing how housing policies shape the lives of low-income residents and communities of color while addressing strategies for equitable reform.

Grounded in decades of CBT research and clinical practice, as well as cutting-edge cognitive science, this entirely new book replaces the classic Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse. Bruce S. Liese and Aaron T. Beck provide critical tools for understanding and treating the full range of addictive behaviors. They explain how to systematically develop case conceptualizations and support clients in achieving their recovery goals. Vivid case examples are used to illustrate CBT techniques, structure, psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, group treatment, relapse prevention, and other effective therapeutic components. Several reproducible forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Froma Walsh’s guide offers a resilience-focused framework for mental health professionals supporting individuals, couples, and families through profound loss. Drawing on research, Walsh explores the effects of complex and traumatic deaths within relational and social contexts, providing core principles and examples for fostering healing, adaptation, and renewed connection. Topics include the loss of a spouse, parent, child, or sibling; ambiguous and disenfranchised losses; deaths by violence, suicide, or overdose; collective trauma; and the intergenerational impact of loss. The book emphasizes mobilizing social, cultural, and spiritual resources to help clients find meaning and rebuild lives beyond grief.

In the past, little attention had been given to military personnel returning from war. Only with the Iraq and Gulf Wars have we begun to understand the needs of veterans and our responsibility to provide proper treatment for those suffering from post-traumatic stress and other difficulties. Veterans are actually members of a distinct cultural group and the importance of working with them and their families is reflected in this DVD. Students will learn about the important topics of post-traumatic stress, specific treatment issues, and working with military families in order to provide a better understanding of the need for mental health services for veterans.

Living with Down Syndrome is a positive experience for the majority of children and adults with Down syndrome, and for their families. Of course there are difficulties to be faced, but quality of life, from infancy to old age, is determined more by the quality of healthcare, education and social inclusion offered to individuals, than by the developmental difficulties that are associated with Down syndrome. The aim of this book is to bring the latest information on research and good practice to families, practitioners and policy makers in order improve the services available to individuals with Down syndrome in all countries.

In this book the author, a pioneer in brain research offers an entirely new model of our emotions, their origins, their power, and their malleability. For more than thirty years, the author has been at the forefront of brain research. Now he gives us an entirely new model for understanding our emotions, as well as practical strategies we can use to change them. He has discovered that personality is composed of six basic emotional "styles," including resilience, self-awareness, and attention. Our emotional fingerprint results from where on the continuum of each style we fall. He explains the brain chemistry that underlies each style in order to give us a new model of the emotional brain, one that will even go so far as to affect the way we treat conditions like autism and depression. And, finally, he provides strategies we can use to change our own brains and emotions if that is what we want to do. By giving us a new and useful way to look at ourselves, we can develop a sense of well-being, and live more meaningful lives

Presents a new model for understanding our emotions – their origins, their power and their malleability. Outlines six basic emotional styles, each based on neuroscientific evidence, that define our personality: resilience, outlook, social intuition, self-awareness, sensitivity to context and attention. It also illuminates the brain's ability to change and how simple strategies can help people shift along the continuum of each style.

Introduces clinicians to research-based anger management skills for treating clients with alcohol use disorder. This book will empower clinicians to address clients' alcohol use and anger emotions through an effective blend of cognitive, relaxation, and sober coping skills.

Problems with alcohol use are common and often occur with other psychological and social problems as well. Left untreated, alcohol use disorder can have significant impact on a person's functioning, health, and relationships. This cognitive-behavioral treatment has been scientifically proven to help individuals achieve and maintain abstinence. The treatment protocol has been developed with the benefit of each author's 25+ years of clinical experience in treating substance abusers; it is user-friendly and easy to deliver in a clinically meaningful way. Rooted in the client's individualized assessment and life context, the program can be tailored to gender-specific issues and personal needs. The 12-session program is comprised of interventions to help the client stop drinking and prevent relapse.

PTSD now occupies a dominant place in not only the mental health professions but also major social institutions and mainstream culture, making it the signature mental disorder of the early twenty-first century. This book traces the fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic conditions.

Despite efforts to redress the prejudice and discrimination faced by people with mental illness, a pervasive stigma remains. Many well-meant programs have attempted to counter stigma with affirming attitudes of recovery and self-determination. Yet the results of these efforts have been mixed.

Stigma and discrimination of people with substance use disorders (SUD) contribute massively to the harm done by their condition: stigma has negative effects on service engagement, life opportunities, and personal shame, both for those who struggle with substance abuse and their families. Overcoming the stigma of substance use disorders is essential to aid recovery in those with SUD. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the stigma of SUD, and proposes ways to overcome it in different settings from the criminal justice system to healthcare. Combining a multitude of viewpoints within a consistent theoretical framework, this book both summarizes the latest evidence and gives hands-on advice and future directions on how to combat the stigma of SUD. People with lived experience of SUD, advocates, family members, policy makers, providers and researchers in the field of addiction stigma will greatly benefit from reading this book

Changing marijuana laws in the United States and Canada, the opioid crisis, and the rising costs of pharmaceuticals have sharpened the public's awareness of drugs and their regulation. Government, industry, and the medical profession, however, have a mixed record when it comes to framing policies and generating knowledge to address drug use and misuse.