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Art therapy in practice
- Editor:
- LIEBMANN Marian
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 191p.,illus.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Written by a group of art therapists working for a variety of organisations including the NHS, a probation service, an education authority and voluntary organisations. Aims to explain the practice of art therapy. Includes chapters on art therapy and manic depression; in day hospitals; in community based rehabilitation; in psychogeriatrics; with dyslexic children; and with people with learning difficulties.
Social work practice in health care
- Editors:
- BADAWI Mieke, BIAMONTI Brenda
- Publisher:
- Woodhead-Faulkner
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 212p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Discusses ways of organising social work in a health setting; the nature of health-based social work; building links between the hospital and community; multidisciplinary framework; and working with various client groups, including children, old people and the chronically ill.
Welfare and the ageing experience: a multidisciplinary analysis
- Editors:
- BYTHEWAY Bill, JOHNSON Julia
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 221p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Collection of papers based on presentations at the 1988 conference of the British Society of Gerontology in 1988. These include: a mixed economy of welfare and the ageing experience; private sector provision of sheltered housing; the reaction of social workers to the challenge of private sector growth in residential care; adjusting to mental infirmity in local authority homes; a survey of delayed hospital discharge; lessons for the future of day care; preparation for retirement in the EC; emerging issues in feminist groupwork; types of inter-generational relations; and the meaning and experience of 'home' in later life.