Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I Researcher Biographical Sketches
Chapter 1 Rubens de Camargo Ferreira Adorno
Chapter 2 Mercedes Alcañiz
Chapter 3 Michael E. Antonio
Chapter 4 Jennifer Lynn Bryan
Chapter 5 Maritza Concha
Chapter 6 David Cosio, PhD
Chapter 7 Amanda H. Costello, PhD
Chapter 8 Paweł Ćwikła
Chapter 9 Oana Alexandra David
Chapter 10 Brittany Davis, PhD
Chapter 11 Laila El Amrani
Chapter 12 Eduardo Fonseca Pedrero
Chapter 13 Dawn W. Foster
Chapter 14 Anita Gibbs
Chapter 15 Pnina Golan-Cook, PhD
Chapter 16 Keith Goldstein
Chapter 17 Andrea Gutiérrez García
Chapter 18 Junaid Hassim
Chapter 19 Hong Ngoc Truong
Chapter 20 Roxanne M Hughes
Chapter 21 Kwang-Kuo Hwang
Chapter 22 Bob Johnson
Part II Research Summaries
Chapter 23 Understanding Elderly Poverty in the United States: Towards Informed Policy
Mary Borrowman and Teresa Ghilarducci
Chapter 24 The Development and Reforms of the Social Security System in Taiwan: Issues, Challenges and Perspectives
Hung-Yang Lin and Ming-Cheng Kuo
Chapter 25 Social Security Systems in Eastern and Southern Africa: Issues, Challenges and Prospects
Jotham Dhemba
Chapter 26 Social Security at a Crossroads on Social Security’s Ability to Cope with Future Challenges
Norman Wagner
Chapter 27 The Role of Fathers during Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes
Angela Milton Miller and Carol J. Hogue
Chapter 28 African American Families in Kinship Care
Marian S. Harris
Chapter 29 Introducing Strengths of African American Families into the Therapy Setting
LaVerne Bell-Tolliver
Chapter 30 Parental Socialization in Response to Racism: Implications for Family Health
Ciara Smalls-Glover, Justin L. Williams, Allana Zuckerman and Dominique Thomas
Chapter 31 Theory-Based Strategies to Reduce Drop-Out Rates of Parent Groups for Low-Income and Black Mothers: Families and Schools Together (FAST)
Lynn McDonald, PhD
Chapter 32 Between Two Worlds: Resilient African American Adolescent Males Navigating Community Violence
Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW
Chapter 33 Body Image and Body Dissatisfaction in Ethnic Men
Lisa Kilpela, Noga Zerubavel, Andrea Hobkirk, Miriam Feliu, Sapna Doshi, Keisha-Gaye N. O’Garo, Jay Trambadia, Abigail Keys, LaBarron K. Hill, Mary Wood, Kai Morgan, Keith E. Whitfield, Martin Binks, John J. Sollers, III and Christopher L. Edwards
Chapter 34 Intimate Partner Problems: Differentiating African American and Caucasian Suicide
Steven Stack
Chapter 35 Can Patient-Physician Race Concordance Improve Health Outcomes for African-American HIV Patients? Evidence, Insights, and Implications
Khary K. Rigg and George Wilson
Chapter 36 The Perspectives of African American Men on HIV Transmission and Concurrency and their Impact on Family Dynamic Perceptions
Kimberly A. Parker and Paula M. Frew
Chapter 37 The Malthusian Century
Charles T. Stewart, Jr.
Chapter 38 “Intercultural City Identity” and “Human Intercultural Cities” (H.I.C.): A Dynamic Ontological Model for the Social Co-Existence and Social Cohesion of Modern and Post-Modern Cities
Eugenia P. Bitsani
Chapter 39 Well-Being and Sexual Minority Workers: Directions for Social Welfare Policy and Practice
Trevor G. Gates
Chapter 40 Social Choice Analysis: Theoretical and Empirical
Wulf Gaertner
Chapter 41 Conditions for the Benefit from and Need for Social Welfare in Hong Kong
Chau-kiu Cheung
Chapter 42 Safety Net Reconstruction: Reform and Development of Social Assistance in China
Haomiao Zhang
Chapter 43 Government Preference, Import Tariffs and Social Welfare
Leonard F. S. Wang, Jen-yao Lee and Angela C. Chao
Chapter 44 Social Safety Nets Reloaded: An Analysis of the Second Generation Safety Nets in Africa
Horman Chitonge
Chapter 45 Social Work As a Profession: Made Insecure by Its Own History and Abraham Flexner?
Nicolay Gausel
Chapter 46 Chinese Strategies on Juvenile Delinquency and Correctional Social Work: Development and Practice
Xue Weng
Chapter 47 Social Work Interventions at Different Stages of Disaster Illustrated by Asian Experiences
Wong H. C. Johnston
Chapter 48 Tactics Employed in Supervisory Conflicts: A Case Study from the Social Work Education in Hong Kong, China
Kathy Kam-ping Leung
Chapter 49 Social Work Education across Borders: Multiple Layers of Conceptualisation
Kerry Brydon
Chapter 50 Personal and Professional Boundaries in Bi-Cultural Social Work Practice: An Australian Study
Robyn Mason, PhD, Raeleene Gregory, PhD and Jasmina Bajraktarevic-Hayward, BSW
Chapter 51 Social Work in Residential Care Facilities for Older People As a Protagonist of Changes in Community Care for the Older People in Slovenia
Jana Mali
Chapter 52 Social Work, Spirituality and the Indigenisation Discourse
Morena J. Rankopo
Chapter 53 Social Work and Grief in the Workplace: Perspectives from a Developing Country
Cornelia Drenth and Jeanette Theron
Chapter 54 Social Work Practice and Education in Africa: Trends, Issues and Challenges
Jotham Dhemba
Chapter 55 Gender Identity As a Personality Process
Charlotte Tate
Chapter 56 “Who Am I Now?” Distress and Growth after Trauma
Rachel E. Wiley and Sharon E. Robinson-Kurpius
Chapter 57 The Intersection of Gender and Sexual Identity Development in a Sample of Transgender Individuals
Craig T. Nagoshi, PhD, Julie L. Nagoshi, PhD, Heather L. Peterson, MSW and Heather K. Terrell, PhD
Chapter 58 Gender Dysphoria in Adults and Adolescents As a Mental Disorder … But, What Is a Mental Disorder? A Phenomenological/Existential Analysis of a Puzzling Condition
Roberto Vitelli
Chapter 59 Gender Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents
Davide Dèttore, Jiska Ristori and Paolo Antonelli
Chapter 60 The Genetics of Transsexualism
Rosa Fernández, PhD, Isabel Esteva, MD, Esther Gómez-Gil, MD, Teresa Rumbo, PhD, Mari Cruz Almaraz, PhD, Ester Roda, PhD, Juan-Jesús Haro-Mora, PhD, Antonio Guillamón, MD and Eduardo Pásaro, PhD
Chapter 61 Gender Identity, Culture of Honor and Gender Violence: Social and Personal Implications
Esther Lopez-Zafra, PhD and Noelia Rodríguez-Espartal, PhD
Chapter 62 Where Should Gender Identity Disorder Go? Reflections on the ICD-11 Reform
Simona Giordano
Chapter 63 Evaluating Psychobiological and Mental Distress in Transsexualism Before and After Cross-Sex Hormonal Treatment: Lesson Learned from Three Longitudinal Studies
Marco Colizzi, MD, Rosalia Costa, MD and Orlando Todarello, MD, PhD
Chapter 64 Gender Dysphoria in Minors, a Growing Phenomenon in our Society: Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of this Population in Spain
I. Esteva de Antonio, I. Prior-Sánchez, B. García-Bray, M.C. Almaraz, R. Yahyahoui, R. Fernández-García Salazar, E. Gómez-Gil and J. Martínez-Tudela
Chapter 65 Substance Use and Exposure to Violence during Childhood and Adolescence in Transsexuals
T. Bergero-Miguel, P. Paulino-Matos, J. Guzmán-Parra, Y. de Diego-Otero, N. Sánchez-Álvarez and L. Pérez-Costillas
Chapter 66 Representations of Teachers about the Relation between Physical Education Contents and Gender Identities
Fabiano Pries Devide, Juliana Pelluso Fernandes da Cunha and Sebastião Josué Votre
Chapter 67 Common Hypothetical Etiology of Excess Androgen Exposure in Female-to-Male Transsexualism and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Tsuyoshi Baba, Toshiaki Endo, Keiko Ikeda and Tsuyoshi Saito
Chapter 68 God and the Transgender Person
Trista L. Carr, PsyD and Mark A. Yarhouse, PsyD
Chapter 69 Report on TG Christians’ Milestone Events
Trista L. Carr, PsyD, Mark A. Yarhouse, PsyD and Rebecca Thomas, MA
Chapter 70 Definitions of Sustainability
Irene Voukkali, Loizia Pantelitsa and Antonis A. Zorpas
Chapter 71 Policies and Legislation
Irene Voukkali and Loizia Pantelitsa
Chapter 72 Environmental Indicators
Vassilis J. Inglezakis and Antonis A. Zorpas
Chapter 73 Psychological Aspects of Sustainability
Nikos Ilia and Katerina Giorgalla
Chapter 74 Business behind Sustainability
Antonis A. Zorpas, Irene Voukkali and Vasilis J. Inglezakis
Chapter 75 Ancient Sustainability Use of ‘the Palmeral of Elche’ and the Current Unsustainabilty: Reasons for a Sustainable Future
Encarni I. Hernández, M. T. Ferrer, Jose Navarro-Pedreño, Ignacio Melendez-Pastor and Ignacio Gómez
Chapter 76 Africa and Sustainable Development
Antonis A. Zorpas
Chapter 77 Reconciling Sustainable Development with Nature Conservation – The Natura 2000 Paradigm
Maria Zomeni
Chapter 78 Natural Vegetation As a Key to Sustainability of Agroecosystems
D. J. Bilalis, I. S. Travlos and P. Papastylianou
Chapter 79 Waste Treatment Sustainability
Muhammad H. Al-Malack and Muhammad Muhitur Rahman
Chapter 80 Energy and Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP)
A. Zouboulis, P. Samaras and A. Tolkou
Chapter 81 Sustainable Energy Development: Smart Grid – A Vision for the Future
Diana-Mihaela Pociovălişteanu, Janina Florenţa Popeangă and Walter Leal Filho
Chapter 82 Biogas Utilization through Anaerobic Digestion in Greece: Current Status and Future Perspectives
Avraam Karagiannidis, George Perkoulidis and Apostolos Malamakis
Chapter 83 Environmental Assessment of Composting in the Context of Sustainable Waste Management
K. Lasaridi, C. Chroni, K. Abeliotis, A. Kyriacou and A. A. Zorpas
Chapter 84 Agricultural Wastes: Protecting Soil Quality by Sustainable Disposal and Reuse in Agriculture
M. K. Doula, F. Tinivella, A. Sarris, V. Kavvadias, J. Moreno Ortego and K. Komnitsas
Chapter 85 Sustainable Supply Chains: Social Practices and Organizational Performance
Luísa Pinto, Joaquim Borges Gouveia and Luís Miguel D. F. Ferreira
Chapter 86 Sustainable Agriculture in the Pampas Region, Argentina
Silvana Irene Torri
Chapter 87 Tourism Development through Sustainability
Antonis A. Zorpas, Katia Lasaridi and Irene Voukkali
Chapter 88 Sustainable urban transport
Marios Valiantis
Chapter 89 Concrete Sustainability
Demetris Nicolaides
Chapter 90 Preventing and Ending Homelessness for Adults with Mental Health Disabilities in Ireland: Realities and Aspirations
Joe Finnerty
Chapter 91 People that Are Homeless with Mental Illnesses in Asia: Issues and Interventions
I-Ming Chen and Yi-Ling Chien
Chapter 92 Homelessness and Mental Illness in South Africa
Eleanor Ross, PhD
Chapter 93 Extreme Social Exclusion: The Case of Homeless People in Spain
Mª Rosario Sánchez Morales
Chapter 94 Interpersonal Relationships among Young Homeless People
Marie Vágnerová, Ladislav Csémy and Jakub Marek
Chapter 95 The Use of Health Information Technology for Mental Health and Chronic Disease Treatment among the Homeless
Jason C. Goldwater, MA, MP., Yael M. Harris, PhD, Juliette Jardim, MSc, Tasnuva Khan, MSc, and Leah Hoffheimer, MPH
Chapter 96 Identification of Areas with High Risk of Homelessness: Implications for Homelessness Prevention Programs
Deden Rukmana
Chapter 97 Mentally Ill, Addicted and Homeless: The Need for Integrated Models of Care for People with Multiple Issues
Richard C. Christensen, MD, MA
Chapter 98 A Transactional Model of Homelessness and Alcoholism
Colleen Clark, PhD, Blake Barrett, MSPH and M. Scott Young, PhD
Chapter 99 Application of Implementation Science for New Homeless Intervention Models
Roger Casey, PhD, Paul Smits, MSW and Colleen Clark, PhD
Chapter 100 Preble Street’s Florence House: How Research and Advocacy Made it Possible
Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin and Jon Bradley
Chapter 101 Understanding Racial Gaps in Family Shelter Entry in Hennepin County, MN
Maria J. Hanratty
Chapter 102 Clinical Considerations in Working with Individuals who are Homeless, Have Intellectual Delay and Mental Illness
Donna C. Lougheed
Chapter 103 Living Beyond the Margins: Homeless Individuals’ Perceptions of Contact Quality
Brian T. Jones, M.A. and Holly Shanley
Chapter 104 Measuring Attitudes towards People with Mental Illness and People Who Are Homeless: Is a Joint Instrument Needed?
Adriana Foster, MD, Sarah Hilton, MD, MS, Faneece Embry, MD, Charity Pires, MD and Anthony O. Ahmed, PhD
Chapter 105 Will Homeless Populations Benefit from Global Warming?
David A. Pepper
Chapter 106 Earthquakes and Homelessness: A Review of Historical Data
Jaime Santos-Reyes, Galdino Santos-Reyes and Tatiana Gouzeva
Chapter 107 The Definition and Nature of Domestic Violence
Alfred Allan and Maria M. Allan
Chapter 108 The Prevention Paradigm and Young People’s Abusive Intimate Relationships
Jane Ellis and Melanie McCarry
Chapter 109 Youth Dating Violence: A Silent Epidemic
Catherine J. Carter-Snell
Chapter 110 Dating Violence among Sexual-Minority Youth (SMY) in the Western World
Martin Blais, Martine Hébert, Jesse Gervais and Félix-Antoine Bergeron
Chapter 111 Systemic Violence and Immigrant Women Having Escaped Domestic Abuse: Meaningfully Reducing Structural Barriers to Leaving Intimate Partner and Familial Violence
Rita Isabel Henderson, Wilfreda E. Thurston and Amrita Roy
Chapter 112 Domestic Violence among South Asian Women: An Ecological Perspective
Bushra Sabri
Chapter 113 Domestic Violence: Prevalence among South Asian Migrant Women
Neely Mahapatra and Mona C. S. Schatz
Chapter 114 A Feminist Perspective: System Responses to Australian Mothers Exiting an Abusive Relationship
Elspeth McInnes
Chapter 115 Coping with Domestic Violence in India: The Role of Spirituality and Social Support
Andreia Schineanu and Jaya Earnest
Chapter 116 Mississippi Still Burning: The LGBT Struggle for Intimate Partner Violence Protection under the Law – A Case Study in the Deep South
Julie Schroeder, Olga Osby and Diana Bruns
Chapter 117 The Public Health Approach to Domestic Violence Prevention
Damien J. Williams, Anna J. Gavine and John Carnochan
Chapter 118 Domestic Violence against Women in War and Armed Conflicts
Jinan Usta and Neil Singh
Chapter 119 Violence against Women in Scenarios of Serious Economic Crisis
Victoria A. Ferrer-Perez and Esperanza Bosch-Fiol
Chapter 120 Sport-Related Domestic Violence: Exploring the Complex Relationship between Sporting Events and Domestic Violence
Damien J. Williams and Fergus G. Neville
Chapter 121 Child Maltreatment: A Phenomenological Study of Adult Males’ Recollected Childhood Memories of Experiencing Abuse and Witnessing Domestic Violence in the Family Home
Myra F. Taylor, Teresa Goddard and Julie Ann Pooley
Chapter 122 ‘Walking on Thin Ice’: The Pervasive Degeneration of the Family Dynamic in Homes where Domestic Violence is a Lived Reality and Where Children under the Age of 18 Experience Abuse
Myra F. Taylor, Teresa Goddard and Julie Ann Pooley
Chapter 123 ‘Feeling Like You’re Damaged and Like Your Life is Out of Your Control’: The Male Perspective on Living with the Adult Aftermath of Child Maltreatment
Myra F. Taylor, Teresa Goddard and Julie Ann Pooley
Chapter 124 Endeavouring to Move Forward from Child Maltreatment by Engaging in the Therapeutic Process of Psyche Repair: The Adult Male’s Attempt at Establishing a More Fulfilled Adult Life
Teresa Goddard, Myra F. Taylor and Julie Ann Pooley
Chapter 125 Overcoming the Gender Dyad: Engaging Men and Boys in Domestic Violence Prevention
Lana Wells, Alina Turner and Merrill Cooper
Chapter 126 African American Caregivers of Older Adults: An Overview
Charnetta Gadling-Cole, PhD, MSW and Gwendolyn Williams, PhD
Chapter 127 Theoretical Perspectives of Caregiving in the African American Community
Charnetta Gadling-Cole, PhD, MSW and Cathy McElderry, PhD
Chapter 128 “Called by God”: Caregiving and Spirituality among African Americans Caregiving and Spirituality among African American Caregiving
Christine Y. Wiley, DMin, MSW
Chapter 129 African-American Kinship Caregivers: Family Service Needs and Permanency
Carrie Jefferson Smith, DSW and Deborah J. Monahan, PhD
Chapter 130 Families Providing Care Across Generations: Pickle in the Middle
Pamela Q. Plummer, PhD
Chapter 131 Caregiving in the African American Community: An Examination of Mental Health and Well-Being
Dennis J. Weiss, PhD, MSW
Chapter 132 Unseen, Unheard, and Nearly Invisible: Implications for Caregiving of Older Black Men Living with HIV/AIDS
Terrell D. Brown, PhD, MSW, MA
Chapter 133 African American Professional and Managerial Baby-Boomer Women: Managing the Glass Ceiling and Caregiving Responsibilities for Older Parents
Claudia Thorne, MSW, LISW
Chapter 134 Dementia Related Diagnoses and Caregiving for African Americans: Responding to God’s Plan
Rachel Robinson, PhD, LCSW and Donna Gibson McCrary, PhD, LGSW
Chapter 135 African American Caregivers Raising Children with Disabilities: Doing More with Less
Carl L. Algood, PhD, MSW, LICSW and Ruby M. Gourdine, DSW, LICSW
Chapter 136 Grandparents and Grandchildren: An Enduring Bond of Caregiving in the African American Community
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, PhD, MSW, ACSW
Chapter 137 Generativity among African American Grandfathers Serving as Kinship Care Providers
Olga Osby, DSW, MSW and Carrie Jefferson Smith, DSW, MSW, ACSW
Chapter 138 Bringing the Outside In: A Loss and Grief Perspective for African American Caregivers
Cynthia E. Harris, DHA, MBPA, LICSW, LCSW-C
Chapter 139 Yet with a Steady Beat – African American Reflections on Seasons of Caregiving
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, PhD, MSW, ACSW and Tyriesa Howard, MSW, LMSW
Chapter 140 The Way Forward: African American Caregivers Continuing the Tradition of Taking Care of Our Own
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, PhD, MSW, ACSW and Charnetta Gadling-Cole, PhD, MSW
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