A mother and daughter - brutalized, murdered, and left to rot in the summer heat. A young college student - killed with a.38 handgun at a remote highway rest stop. These were just a few of the victims of Timothy Krajcir, a sexual predator with an unquenchable appetite for violence...He would travel [...]
"The Social Worker's Guide to Child and Adolescent Mental Health" provides a comprehensive guide to working with children and young people who are experiencing mental health problems, and equips the reader with the knowledge and skills to provide the best service to these vulnerable young people. Th[...]
The role of social work in a comprehensive child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) is crucial as the prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems increases. This text addresses, thoughtfully and comprehensively, the input that social workers and other staff need to make to support the[...]
Environmental and natural resource policy decision making is changing. Increasingly citizens and management agency personnel are seeking ways to do things differently; to participate meaningfully in the decision making process as parties work through policy conflicts. Doing things differently has co[...]
Since its release in summer 1994, the Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification has become a standard for message-passing libraries for parallel computations. There exist more than a dozen implementations on a variety of computing platforms, from the IBM SP-2 supercomputer to PCs running Windows[...]
This book is suitable for readers of ages 3 to 8 years. Rosa Parks is recognised as "the mother of the Civil Rights movements" and one of the most courageous women of the twentieth century. This story of only 200 words provides an introduction to Rosa Parks and uses simple, short words with only the[...]
This is the first textbook written in direct response to the Munro review of child protection. It will be valuable reading for students taking courses in social work with families, and also for practitioners across all fields who work on child protection.[...]