Social welfare and social services

Rescue Robotics presents the most significant findings of the DDT Project on robots and systems for urban search and rescue.

Im Lehrgang Technische Hilfeleistung (nach FwDV 2) sind für das Erlernen des korrekten Umgangs mit Trennschleifer, Plasmaschneider und Brennschneidegerät nur wenige Unterrichtseinheiten vorgesehen.

Die Soziale Arbeit begegnet vor allem in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe jungen Menschen, deren emotionale Balance aus dem Gleichgewicht geraten ist.

The role of the police force was central in the politics and social life of Egypt during the British occupation between 1882 and 1914.

Diversität ist ein Schlagwort, das in fachlichen und gesellschaftlichen Debatten heute häufig verwendet wird.

Twenty-four hours is a lot of time in prison, and here is a moment to moment guide of how each one goes by.

Produced as a companion to the Hospice Foundation of America's fifth annual National Bereavement Teleconference, this volume examines how key aspects of identity affect how individuals grieve.

Like no other book available, Working with Students with Disabilities: A Guide for School Counselors provides comprehensive coverage of school counselors' roles in special education and working with students with disabilities and connects that coverage to both the ASCA national model and CACREP standards.

Will 'what works' in one country work in another?

A state-of-the-art guide for developing grants witha strong emphasis on using program outcome measurement to underscore need and accountability Based on the authors' many years of experience in the public and nonprofit sectors, Effective Grant Writing and Program Evaluation for Human Service Professionals integrates the topics of grant proposal writing and program evaluation, offering grant seekers the practical guidance they need to develop quality proposals, obtain funding, and demonstrate service results and accountability.

In einer Welt, die ständig Meinungen und Erwartungen an uns stellt, ist es eine wahre Kunst, sich selbst treu zu bleiben und das eigene Glück zu finden.

By drawing on the experience of trans people who are affected by physical disability, chronic illness and mental illness, this book is the definitive guide on providing best practice in approaches to health and care policy.

Environmental Practice in the Human Services points to the need for the human services to return to their historic mission of environmental change.

The great recession is changing the way many people live and the way they perceive their prospects for the near and more distant future.

This book presents a model of supervision that is based on both contemporary theory and research, which is strongly contextualized to child and family social work.

The potential for healing available in well-known myths and stories is increasingly recognized, but many practitioners are unsure how to tap into this rich and often culturally-specific source of insight.

This book is a collection of essays advancing the discourse in well-being science, authored by key thought leaders in positive psychology and its variants, including positive education, character education, and positive organizational scholarship.

All practitioners working in the caring and helping professions face many challenges and questions when dealing with suicidal clients: Is this client being serious?

Living with serious illness can have profound emotional effects both on patients themselves and on those close to them.

Hilfe für belastete Frauen in Schwangerschaft und Postpartalzeit- Angesprochen sind: Alle, die eine Gruppe für Schwangere und Mütter anbieten wollen - von der ÄrztIn und PsychotherapeutIn bis zur Hebamme und BeraterIn- In die Zukunft gedacht: Psychoedukation von Müttern ebnet den Weg für eine sichere Bindung und eine bessere psychische Gesundheit für Mutter und Kind sowie die gesamte Familie- Niederschwellig: Einmal die Woche à 90 Minuten am besten in der Gruppe, um fehlende soziale Kontakte auszugleichen- Hilfe durch: Stabilisierung, Wissensvermittlung und EntlastungBevorzugt im Gruppensetting, aber auch in Einzelsitzungen, lernen Frauen Bewältigungsstrategien sowie mögliche Hilfen im Alltag kennen.

One of the hallmarks of the Soviet system was its heavy reliance on internal and foreign security and intelligence organizations.

Fairness of wage distribution - or the perception of such - is a phenomenon crucial for the stability of new democracies.

Schools are facing increasing numbers of homeless students and school social workers and other related professionals are often at the front line of addressing the negative impact homelessness brings to individual students and the school overall.

Social work education has the potential to be transformative, consciousness raising, and to produce social change while inspiring hope in students for the creation of more just systems.

Diese praxisbezogene Handlungsanleitung richtet sich sowohl an den Mitarbeiter in der sozialpädagogischen Familien- und Erziehungshilfe als auch an den Anstellungsträger.

Counseling Children and Adolescents focuses on relationship building and creating a deep level of understanding of developmental, attachment, and brain-based information.

In the light of scares about potential pandemics such as swine fever and avian flu, the issue of global health and its governance is of increasing concern to scholars and practitioners of medicine, public health, social work, and international politics alike.

Our faith is centered around giving and offering support, yet our belief about those who need "e;help"e; must be reexamined.

Sandtray Therapy is an essential book for professionals and students interested in incorporating this unique modality into work with clients of all ages.

Is it possible to overcome the enduring problem of child maltreatment?

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Gift of Tears includes new research and examples of recent events to help illustrate the effects of loss.

By adopting a comparative approach, this book investigates the philosophy, policy, practices, and challenges of inclusive education in the Chinese contexts, recognizing influences of Chinese culture, such as Confucianism, collectivism, and familism.

A complete guide for helping professionals, with tried-and-true techniques for practicing family counseling therapy Now in its second edition, Working With Families: Guidelines and Techniques is filled with up-to-date, systems-oriented techniques focused on field-tested results.

This book is a guide to understanding the important issue of stigma - `associated disadvantage' - which affects not only those who are excluded from society, but also family members and friends.

What is quality of life?

This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying out arts-based research with children in Australia and the UK.

This book explores the need for deep-seated social change in Myanmar if the country's democratic transition and peace process is to deliver tangible benefits for those that have long faced profound vulnerability and marginalisation.

Social Work: Voices from the Inside offers unique insight into social work from the perspectives of those 'on the inside', that is, service users, carers and practitioners.

As a punishment for our most serious crimethe intentional killing of a victim in an egregious waythe death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views.

This book will provide you with a clear and accessible guide to the process of conducting a literature review, giving you the skills, confidence and knowledge required to produce your own successful review.

Trotz aktuellem Fachkräftemangel gibt es eine Vielzahl von vulnerablen Gruppen, die Schwierigkeiten am Arbeitsmarkt haben können.

Pro(se)letariets documents through memoir, poetry, and fiction a two year conversation held between working class writers in Syracuse, New York, and the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers, United Kingdom, on how class background affected their education and career goals.

Mit diesem Band wagt die Autorin Angela Geißler einen neuen (Ein-)Blick in das Themenfeld der häuslichen Gewalt.

This collection documents the efforts of the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) to put democracy into practice by merging prison education and activism.

This new edition of a classic text is the go-to reference for anyone concerned with the developmental progress of pre-school children.

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Emotional Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features offers a concise overview to what is distinctive about this new approach to helping clients cope with "e;difficult"e; emotions.

Despite impressive economic growth rates over the last decade, foreign aid still plays a significant role in Africa's political economies.