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Book SynopsisThe increasing influence of digital media on all aspects of life, especially the use of Internet and smartphone, has not left even the field of healthcare practice untouched. Telerehabilitation, implying the use of telecommunications in rehabilitation activities, is being used widely in the treatment of communication and mental health disorders. The use of telerehabilitation services makes rehabilitation more feasible, fast, time-saving and cost-effective for people who face constraints in physically presenting themselves to healthcare providers due to extent of retardation, illness or commuting issues. It is thus a boon for the people who stay in remote areas and have no access to healthcare professionals in close vicinity. Therefore, research is underway on the optimal means to deliver telerehabilitation services both locally and globally and is now seen as a critical activity in healthcare. Table of ContentsForeword by S. Venkatesan Preface Acknowledgements Telerehabilitation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges - Sanjeev Kumar Gupta Section 1: Telerehabilitation in Communication Disorders Telepractice in Speech-Language Pathology in India - Attuluri Navya, G. Swetha, Pratiksha Gupta and Pebbili Gopikishore Utility of Apps in Speech and Language Therapy - Abhishek B. P. and Abdulaziz Saleh Almudhi Telerehabilitation in Stuttering - Rakesh C. V. and Santosh Maruthy Tele-audiology in India: Facilitators, Limitations and Challenges - Saransh Jain, Chandni Jain, Vijaya Kumar Narne and Hemanth N. Shetty Computer-Based Listening Training for Children with Hearing Impairment - Prashanth Prabhu P. and Husna Firdose Web- or App-Based Assessment and Management of Tinnitus - Prashanth Prabhu P. and Megha K. N. Tele-Special Education for Communication Disorders in India - Yashaswini R. and G. Malar Section 2: Telerehabilitation in Mental Health Man with Machine or Man versus Machine? Insights from Technology-based Rehabilitation in Persons with Aphasia - Vimala Jayakrishna Kasturi and S. P. Goswami Telecounselling for Caregivers of Persons with Dementia - Rachel C. Francis and Sanjeev Kumar Gupta Computer-Assisted Programs for Children with Specific Learning Disorder: Implications and Challenges - Vimala Jayakrishna Kasturi and Sanjeev Kumar Gupta Telerehabilitation in Substance Use Disorders - Tanu Gupta and Kartik Singhai Index

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Book SynopsisTribal development is one of the most important yet underperforming initiatives of the Indian government. For any effort in this direction to succeed, an effective tribal educational programme is necessary. However, major gaps in the implementation of this programme, along with factors such as corruption and political interference, have contributed to severe malfunctioning and ineffectiveness of the Tribal Ashram schools, a residential school system. It is essential to understand these gaps from policy, design, funding, management, monitoring and evaluation perspectives for ensuring effective service delivery to tribal learners. Tribal Development in India: Challenges and Prospects in Tribal Education is a detailed presentation of the multi-pronged effort towards the educational development of India’s tribal population. It includes contributions from academicians and professionals belonging to diverse domains, such as social work, education and administration, and involved in tribal education. The perspectives shared through this book will prove helpful for all stakeholders involved in tribal empowerment through education.Trade Review"The book is an in-depth presentation of the multi-pronged effort towards the educational development of India’s tribal population… useful for all stakeholders involved in tribal empowerment through education." -- CounterCurrents.in, 28 November 2020Table of ContentsForeword by Virginius Xaxa Acknowledgements Introduction - R. R. Patil PART I Issues of Tribal Education in India Sociological Analysis of Educational Experiences of Adivasi Children - Gomati Bodra Hembrom Ethnocentrism in Education: Effects of Hidden Curriculum on Tribal Students - Pradyumna Bag Status of Tribal Ashram Schools in Maharashtra - Bipin Jojo Language as Instrument of Exclusion and Inclusion in Tribal Educational Development - Saumya Deol and R. R. Patil Living Conditions, Learning Status and Educational Performance of Tribal Students - Dhaneswar Bhoi Insights on High Dropout Rates among Katkari Tribal Children in Maharashtra - S. N. Tripathy Education of Scheduled Tribes in Residential Schools in Manipur - Chipemmi Awung Shang and R. R. Patil Status and Functioning of Tribal Ashram Schools - Prakash Chandra Jena Educating Tribal Children: Issues - R. Vasundhara Mohan PART II Innovation and Best Practices in Tribal Education Balancing Indigenous Culture and Formal Education: Ashram Schools in Kerala - Noorjahan Kannanjeri and Alkha Dileep Ashram School Codebook: Framework for Qualitative Management - Rajashri Tikhe and Buveneswari Suriyan Centralized Kitchen: Providing Nutritious and Hygienic Meals to Tribal Students - Saurabh Katiyar Indira Gandhi Memorial Model Residential School (IGMMRS) in Malappuram, Kerala: A Case Study - Muhammed Shafi C. T. and R. R. Patil PART III Rethinking Policy and Planning for Tribal Education Revisiting Policies and Need for Reform in Tribal Education - Sonal Shivagunde Rethinking Policy Design and Reforms for Tribal Education in India - Naresh Kumar Inclusive Education Policy for Tribal Ashram Schools in Odisha - Bibekananda Nayak Ashram Schools and Education of Tribal Children in India: A Policy Perspective - Mrityunjay K. Singh Government Ashram School: Micro Planning - D. K. Panmand Financing Tribal Education in India - Vetukuri P. S. Raju References Index

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Book SynopsisMedical social work in Singapore traces its roots to the post-war period. This textbook documents the historical development and evolution of the medical social work profession in Singapore, as well as the specialist work done in the profession.The first part of the book gives an overview to the field in Singapore. It provides information which is considered as fundamental and core to medical social workers across the various medical or healthcare settings. The second part focuses on the selected practice areas and adopts an integral approach to discuss theory and practice.This book is essential for social work students who wish to learn from a range of examples of good social work practice, presented from human developmental perspectives and in sufficient breadth to provide a reasonable overview of social work practice in health care. This book also provides added lens for medical, nursing and other allied health students and practitioners who wish to better understand their patients and families.

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Book SynopsisThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This cutting edge text considers how Asian philanthropists and charitable organizations break with Western philanthropic traditions and examines the key traits and trends that make social investment in Asia unique. Based on 30 case studies of excellent social delivery organizations (SDOs) and social enterprises as well as interviews with ultra-high net-worth individuals throughout Asia, this book examines which characteristics and strategies lead to successful philanthropy and social delivery organizations. Providing evidence based findings on philanthropy, social investment and social delivery organizations in Asia, this book provides invaluable resources for those wishing to deepen their understanding of the sector and what this means for political and economic development in the region.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Asian Philanthropy Explained.- Old Money: History of Giving in Asia.- Changing Laws or Taxing Changes: Policies in Flux.- Philanthropists in Asia: What do They Want? What do They Get?.- Who do You Know SDO? Relationships Matter.- Government, Here to Help!.- Not just Giving: How do Companies Play?.- Impact Investing in Asia: Just Getting Started.- A New Social Contract.

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Book SynopsisThis book showcases current thinking on social work in the field of mental health and illness from a bio-ecological and spiritual framework reflecting the transition in mental health care from institution to community. The book presents a valuable tool for understanding theories on aetiology and social work interventions in mental health from varying socio-cultural, economic and political contexts. Topics covered include: the values and ethics of social work practice in mental health; psycho-social theories on mental health and illness, including psychological perspective and the structural/ social development perspective; social work approaches in working with individuals, families and communities; contextualized social work practice in mental health with a specific population group or community; structural factors such as legal provision and financial challenges in mental health and illness; and new directions in social work and mental health.Table of ContentsPart One: Introduction.- Part Two: General Theories on Mental Health and of Aetiology of Mental Illness.- Part Three: Overview of social work approaches in working with individuals, families and community.- Part Four:Contextualized practice with individuals and families.- Part Five: Structural factors in social work and mental health.- Part Six: Concluding chapter.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the identities, embodied experiences, and personal relationships of young people experiencing homelessness, and analyses these in relation to the material and symbolic position that youth homelessness occupies in modern societies. Drawing on empirical research conducted in both urban and rural areas, the book situates young people’s experiences of homelessness within a theoretical framework that connects embodied identities and relationships with processes of social change. The book theorises a ‘symbolic economy of youth homelessness’ that encompasses the subjective, aesthetic, and relational dimensions of homelessness. This theory shows the personal, interpersonal and affective suffering that is caused by the relations of power and privilege that produce contemporary youth homelessness. The book is unique in the way in which it places youth homelessness within the wider contexts of inequality, and social change. Whilst contemporary discussions of youth homelessness understand the topic as a discrete ‘social problem’, this book demonstrates the position that youth homelessness occupies within wider social processes, inequalities, and theoretical debates, addressing theories of social change in late modernity and their relationship to the cultural construction of youth. These theoretical debates are made concrete by means of an exploration of an important form of contemporary inequality: youth homelessness.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Understanding Youth Homelessness.- Chapter 2 Youth Homelessness, Reflexivity and Inequality in Late Modernity.- Chapter 3 Young Homeless Subjectivities: A Symbolic Economy.- Chapter 4 Identity: Becoming a Homeless Youth.- Chapter 5 Identity: Subverting Homelessness and Making a Home.- Chapter 6 Bodies: Being and Feeling Homeless.- Chapter 7 Relationships: Constructing the Other, Constructing the Self.- Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Symbolic Economy of Youth Homelessness and the Purpose of Homelessness Research.- Chapter 9 Afterword: The Practice of Ethical Research Interviews with Homeless Youth.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book outlines the intersections between social work and the methods of sociometry and psychodrama. Different sections offer essential practice wisdom for both trauma-focused and trauma-informed experiential work for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This text enriches the understanding of various action-based approaches and highlights how to enliven social work practice. The chapters include clinical vignettes and examples of structured sociometric prompts with diverse populations, topics, and social work settings to enhance the understanding of group practice, individual practice, and community practice. It provides social workers and other professionals with dynamic tools to improve assessment, intervention, activism, and leadership. Strength-based practical tools are offered to readers, along with guidance for theoretical conceptualizations. This integrative book is an essential read for students, practitioners, leaders, and scholars within the fields of social work, psychodrama, the creative art therapies, group therapy, community organizing, and social activism. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to Social Work and Moreno’s methods.- Chapter 2. History of Social Work with Groups in Practice and Education.- Chapter 3. History of Sociometry, Psychodrama, Group Therapy, and Moreno.- Chapter 4. Social Work Philosophy Encounters Morenean Philosophy.- Chapter 5. Sociometry and Social Work Theory.- Chapter 6. Psychodrama and Social Work Theory.- Chapter 7. Trauma, Social Work, and Psychodrama.- Chapter 8. Interpersonal Neurobiology, Social Work, Sociometry, and Psychodrama.- Chapter 9. Strengths-Based and Mutual Aid Approaches in Social work and Psychodrama.- Chapter 10. Research and Evidence Based Practice.- Chapter 11. Experiential Sociometry Practice with Group.- Chapter 12. Social Work and Moreno’s Methods.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first book-length explication of hermeneutics in social work. It attempts to clarify and reconstruct the moral basis of social work. Against the mainstream current of doing social work with the technical-rational outlook, this book argues that value constitutes the very core of social work. It is with this solid foundation of moral concepts that social work techniques are reconstituted.This volume seamlessly combines theoretical discussions with empirical studies. It starts with a theoretical inquiry that combines hermeneutics and critical theory and examines the moral nature of social work. It then extends the theoretical analysis to empirical research on mental illness, cancer, community development and social work management. Redefining the relationship between theory and practice, the discussion on first-person value involvement and dialogical mode of understanding will inspire social workers to develop their professional practice in a new light. This volume will capture the attention of both social work scholars and frontline social work practitioners. The hermeneutic point of view will also be of interest to readers/students of social theory and social research.Table of ContentsTowards a Hermeneutic Conception of Social Work Practice: The Myths of Positivism and the Strong Thesis of Value Involvement; Towards a Hermeneutic Conception of Social Work Practice: Social Work Skills and Moral Practice; A Study from the Hermeneutic Perspective of the Constitution of the Mentally Ill SelfA"; The Meaning of Cancer from a Hermeneutic Perspective; Critical Theory and Community Development; The Moral Basis of Social Work Management.

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