Books by Karen Jones

This book develops the reader's knowledge of how and when gender stereotypes form and how they can be perpetuated in various ways through and during a child's education.

Everyone has the same starting place and ending place. What happens in the middle is your choice!You have a path to follow just as I do. The only difference is you choose which path to follow. Just like the plane flying overhead, you see its path across the sky. You too have a path. You can either follow what you see left by someone else or pave your own way. The path the plane travels across the blue sky is clear and distinct. With time, the path fades. Similarly, you can follow a clear path or wait, and push through the blurred path, or figure it out on your own.This book is about the journey to connect with the most important person in your life. We have many distractions on our journey. When you focus on what provides clarity for you, you will find the path you were meant to follow.

The Upside-Down Jesus and other stories is a collection of published and prize-winning short stories, flash fiction and micro-fiction giving voice to a variety of different characters. A child struggles to overcome her fear of the upside-down Jesus, a man dons his 'egg-stealing coat' once a week, a teenager becomes obsessed with the colour purple, an old man keeps his wife closer than others would like, a psychiatrist considers the folly of his patients, and a little girl watches her neighbour slowly disappear.

Karen Jones is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, and specializes in US and Environmental history. She has published widely on environmental issues and the American West specifically, and is currently completing a manuscript for the University of Colorado Press on hunting, nature and the nineteenth-century American West.

Social workers often have to handle a great deal of negativity in their working lives. This book celebrates social work practice at its most positive and influential and, in doing so, contributes to a growing literature on critical best practice.Focused on 12 unique and compelling stories of social work with older people, the authors:* provide a fresh and realistic insight into life as a social worker, and the dilemmas and difficulties that practitioners typically face* illustrate how knowledge, theory and research are integrated in professional decision-making and action* show social workers analyzing their own cases and include reflective questions to help readers formulate their own learning and thereby develop their own practiceThis book provides students on qualifying courses with an invaluable perspective on real life practice, and gives qualified practitioners the opportunity to reflect on and better their own practice.

Social work has laboured too long under a 'deficit' model that focuses on failings and problems of practice. Emphasising best practice, strengths and collaborative partnership this ambitious book seeks to redress the balance. Undergraduate and post-qualifying social work students alike will find it a useful resource.

Part of the "101 Essential Lists" series, this title contains lists for primary school teachers on how to manage behaviour. The lists range from minor problems, such as giving rewards and sanctions to how to deal with serious problems, such as drugs, bullying and anger management.