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L'autosupervision dialogique en intervention psychosociale

L’intervention psychosociale est le terrain où se meuvent les problématiques de toutes sortes, souvent plus complexes les unes que les autres. Elle est aussi l’aire où les dynamismes générateurs ...

No Place To Go

This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we’re allowed to “go” in public. From pay potties to deserted alleyways, and in cities from London to San Francisco to Toronto, No Place ...

Changemakers

By (author) Fay Weller & Mary Wilson
Categories: Social work

The guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now rather than wait for a pie-in-the-sky future.

With every news report, the world seems to be careening off the rails. It’s all ...

Excessive Force

By (author) Alok Mukherjee & Tim Harper
Categories: Biography: general

Alok Mukherjee was the civilian overseer of the Toronto police between 2005 and 2015, during the most tumultuous decade the force had ever faced. In this provocative and highly readable collaboration ...

Neither Married Nor Single

When Dr. David Kirkpatrick’s wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2007, their lives—and their marriage—would change forever. In an honest, uplifting, sometimes heartbreaking account ...

Trauma complexe

Les traumas complexes représentent un phénomène social et de santé publique névralgique. En misant sur des expertises complémentaires et sur une perspective multifactorielle tenant compte de la ...

Understanding Violence and Abuse

By (author) Heather Fraser & Kate Seymour
Categories: Social work

Using case studies from Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Bangladesh, India, and elsewhere, Heather Fraser and Kate Seymour discuss topics ranging from class oppression, street ...

D'encre et de chair

By (author) Robert F. Lalonde
Categories: Social work

Tout au long de son périple au cœur de pays où la paix est un enjeu de tous les jours, l’auteur a pu observer les difficultés auxquelles les gens devaient faire face, mais aussi leur redressement ...

Interculturalism

By (author) Gérard Bouchard
Translated with commentary by Howard Scott
Foreword by Charles Taylor
Categories: Social welfare and social services

In Interculturalism, sociologist and historian Gérard Bouchard presents his vision of interculturalism as a model for the management of diversity. A pluralist approach which recognizes the existence ...

K9 Behavior Basics

Understand dog behavior to work with, not against, your K9’s instincts. In this revised edition of K9 Behavior Basics, expert dog trainers Dr. Resi Gerritsen, Ruud Haak, and Simon Prins share the essentials ...