Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe

by Anna Metteri, Teppo Kroger, Anneli Pohjola

Overcome the challenges facing social workers today with international guidance

Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe is a valuable stepping stone toward an understanding of the diversity of methods utilized in social work for community health services. This work stems from material gathered at the Third International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, held in Tampere, Finland. In this book, you will find new creative theoretical and practical orientations for designing, developing, and analyzing social work to help you produce policies and services in which clients can positively and productively invest.

Social Work Approaches in Health and Mental Health from Around the Globe covers a long period in the history of social work in health issues, from theoretical treatises to empirical research and analyses of practices. The book provides you with research, case studies, and existing international and national literature from India, Botswana, Taiwan, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. This resource explores the shared qualities of social work in health services throughout the world despite differences between countries in terms of culture, social system, and history.

Although these experts come from different parts of the world, the book displays an emergence of similar issues and themes,

Genres: Occult

256 pages, Paperback

First published February 23, 1971

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Before beginning Loyola University's MA/PhD program and for a while after starting it I worked across the street from the Lake Shore Campus at Volume II Bookstore. Before that operation went belly up, I ran the book section and was able to take my pick of the litter at deep discounts. That's where I picked up Somerlott's Modern Occultism, the second issuance of his book originally entitled Here, Mr. Splitfoot.

Judging from his titles, Somerlott is a professional writer, not a specialist in the fields of occultism, parapsychology or anything tangential to the broad topic of this book. What one gets is bunch of stories without an overarching thesis. While entertaining, it's neither authoritative nor exhaustive.

[Doug Mckeever · Rating 3 out of 5]

The informal nature of this book listed on the cover is not to be underestimated. However, if you are fascinated by the occult and both the unexplainable nature of some cases contrasted with the outright fraud of others, it's a great starting point. Somerlott divides his book into categories of phenomena and examines case studies across the history of the West, focusing especially on 1800s USA.

The book is more of a starting point than a thorough history but very enjoyable nonetheless.