Books published by Cognella, Inc

Designed to help future social workers cultivate the skills critical for successful practice, Macro Practice Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide helps readers develop strategic competencies that can be applied at micro, mezzo, and macro system levels. Though the development of key skills, readers learn how to understand clients within a specific social context, increasing their ability and effectiveness to intervene and assist across and within diverse client populations. The book begins with an overview of the generalist social work practice model that serves as a framework for the text. Later chapters are dedicated to the introduction and development of key skill sets. Readers learn how to facilitate relationship development with clients, identify factors that contribute to a client's specific situation, develop a plan for action, implement, monitor, and evaluate the plan, and formally end the professional relationship, making appropriate referrals or transition plans. The closing chapter demonstrates how to apply the generalist model from start to finish. Macro Practice Skills is well suited for courses in social work and can also be used by social workers in the field to reinforce competencies and refresh personal practice.Jan M. Ivery holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University and M.S.W. from the University of Pittsburgh. She is an associate professor of social work at Georgia State University. Her teaching and research has focused on organizational and community capacity for improved service delivery through community collaboration. Dr. Ivery has published peer-reviewed articles on organizational ecology, social capital, and naturally occurring retirement communities in journals such as the Administration of Social Work (now Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership, & Governance, Journal of Gerontological Social Work, and Human Behavior and the Social Environment.

Helps students develop a fundamental understanding of the process of forensics. The manual bridges the gap between learned material and practical application, challenging students to apply what they've learned in lectures to a laboratory environment.

Provides students with thought-provoking texts that build upon each other to shorten or expand readers' ideas of logic. The text addresses all major subcategories of logic and provides each their own spotlight.

Provides readers with a comprehensive overview of telebehavioral health, including definitions and concepts, the benefits and barriers associated with practice, and an interprofessional framework for telebehavioral health competencies. The competencies outlined help readers develop an engaged, ethical, and effective telebehavioral health practice.

Provides readers with a variety of articles that showcase examples of cutting-edge research on crime and media. The text helps students better understand how crime and media are intertwined within culture and how this unique connection influences our behaviours, attitudes, and values.

Provides students with a real-world approach to courtroom procedure, the presentation of evidence in criminal trials, and scenarios future legal professionals are likely to encounter. Through a collection of case studies and enlightening examples, the text demonstrates how the rules of evidence are applied in actual trial settings.

Explores the deeply flawed status quo of the social work profession. A rallying cry for social work itself, The End of Social Work is an ideal resource for social work programs and practicing social workers driven to enact meaningful change.

Examines the art of dance within the context of different cultures and demonstrates the connections between dance and academic disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy.

Provides students with a collection of carefully selected, multidisciplinary readings that illuminate the unique history of the Romans. This is an ideal supplementary resource for courses in world history, especially those with concentration on Roman history.

Provides students with a comprehensive exploration of the history of Korea from its origins to present day. Featuring highly focused and accessible content, The Making of Korea in East Asia is an ideal resource for courses in Asian studies and Asian history, especially those with emphasis on Korean history.

Expertly weaves contemporary research on sexual and gender identity with personal narratives of individuals who have navigated social norms and constructs to carve out an understanding of their own sexuality. The text provides readers with an innovative and intimate lens through which they can begin to understand the dynamic nature of sexuality.

Recounts the transformation of a corrupt, dysfunctional prison system into one consistent with the US Constitution and in line with human standards of decency. The text provides students with a detailed, real-world narrative that reveals the opportunities and challenges involved in criminal justice reform.

Bright, eager business students deserve a rigorous, exciting introduction to the fundamentals of business. How Business Works: Making Profits, Taking Risks, and Creating Value in a Global Economy is a dynamic introduction to business textbook that takes a holistic, comprehensive, real-world approach, incorporating both theory and practice.

Features portraits of development at each stage interwoven with the findings of developmental science research on how inequitable resources and opportunities, which are influenced by social, economic, and political factors, can impact development.

Helps readers develop critical skills that can be applied in the school environment to foster student achievement. The articles underscore the importance of setting the tone for clear, high expectations in teaching and learning and building a positive culture where academic success can flourish.

Provides students with carefully curated selections within the discipline that foster their philosophical and practical understanding of criminal evidence. Pragmatic in nature, the text focuses on the evidence that is presented within criminal investigations and trials.

Provides students with a comprehensive and illuminating overview of key concepts in public health. Chapters explore examples of health interventions at different social-ecological levels, introduce readers to the first modern psychologists, the concept of radical behaviourism, and the internal and social forces that influence us.

Introduces readers to critical perspectives and methods of biblical interpretation, with emphasis on the New Testament, in a manner that enables them to apply these perspectives and methods to their own work.

Presents students with a refreshing way to study persuasion, communication theory, and human behaviour. Rather than examining different types of persuasion research and reviewing each one at a time, Franklin Boster and Christopher Carpenter explore eight key controversies, as well as research and theory related to each topic.

Designed to inspire conversation and critical thinking, Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice presents students with a carefully selected collection of readings regarding timely and relevant issues within the criminal justice discipline.

Analyses the challenges social workers face in applying social work values and ethics due to recent significant social, political, cultural, and technological changes. The book provides readers with guidelines for ethical practice based on a philosophic foundation rooted in social justice principles.

Provides readers with a carefully selected collection of articles that introduce them to various dance forms and their respective movements. The anthology features differentiating perspectives on ballet, jazz, and modern dance, as well as explorations about dance as ethnography, production, performance, legacy, and tradition.

Designed to help readers integrate a researcher's perspective and research methodology into their professional practice. Approaching practice as a practitioner-researcher not only facilitates the gathering of data and the drawing of useful conclusions, but also results in more ethical and effective practice decisions.

A composition textbook designed to provide students with a structured introduction to writing in French. Students are challenged to produce a variety of written texts in French to foster their acquisition of vocabulary, sentence structure, and overall fluency.

Features carefully selected readings that provide students with unique insight into the challenges faced by practicing sociologists. Students explore the study and practice of sociology from a highly practical point of view, cultivating a better understanding of how sociology impacts our perceptions of the world and our place within it.