Social Work and Community Practice (Hardcover, New)

This new book explores a variety of physical, mental, and lifestyle challenges faced by community populations, including homelessness, community health promotion, nutrition intervention, smoking trends among certain populations, mental health issues among different age and gender groups, substance abuse, domestic violence, contraception, and more. Studies in the book cover a number of important health issues, such as promoting chlamydia screening, class-based nutrition education, exercise and physical activity among children and adults, mental health problems, postpartum depression among women, factors influencing cognition, intimate partner violence, contraception methods, and more.