When social workers assist people in mental distress, complexity is added if clients self-
identify as spiritual/religious. It can be challenging to know how to proceed in a helpful …

A review of the past decade of literature on the subject of depression in South African
women revealed a paucity of research that documents the perspectives of low-income …

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de-contextualise the problems experienced by people and tether them to their bodies and …

Psychological trauma has become the main framework for understanding the impact of rape
on individual victims. Trauma has traditionally been understood as a mental illness …

How are disordered eating and substance abuse embodied, experienced, and articulated
within a context of multi-dimensional marginalization? Research on this topic is expansive …

This chapter aims to provide an introduction to literature examining the issues related to
working with psychiatric diagnosis in the context of psychotherapy. The ideology, knowledge …

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approach to human suffering that has become an embodiment in and of itself, and has …

Names: Jaffe, Miriam, author. Title: The social work and sexual trauma casebook:
phenomenological perspectives/edited by Miriam Jaffe [and three others]. Description: New …

This dissertation offers a critical, contextualizing analysis of government policy and
discourse pertaining to mental-health reform in Canada, with a focus on the province of …

Abstract Hughes, Burke, Graham, Crocket, and Kotzé (2013) have claimed that school
guidance counsellors' work" relates directly to the core mission of schools as expressed in …