Social work

This book offers a broad overview of transition practices for incarcerated youth, shaped by local culture, politics, ideologies, and philosophies.

This collection examines a broad spectrum of natural and human-made disasters that have occurred in Japan and New Zealand, including WWII and the atomic bombing of Japan and two recent major earthquake events, the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Christchurch Earthquake, which occurred in 2011.

Medical social work in Singapore traces its roots to the post-war period.

This book discusses the interconnected, complex and emerging risks in today's societies and deliberates on the various aspects of disaster risk reduction strategies especially through community resilience and responses.

This book aims to equip mental health professionals to integrate discussions of sexual identity, health, wellness, and intimacy into the scope of their client's mental health, ensuring they are well-prepared to incorporate sexual functioning into core assessment, interventions, and treatment.

This book aims to equip mental health professionals to integrate discussions of sexual identity, health, wellness, and intimacy into the scope of their client's mental health, ensuring they are well-prepared to incorporate sexual functioning into core assessment, interventions, and treatment.

This book examines the process of population aging in China and its unique features, considers the social progress implied in China becoming a society with an aging population, and assesses the tremendous risks and challenges involved.

This book discusses health care issues related to domestic violence, using extensive case studies from India.

This book systematically reviews the experiences and problems encountered in the development of China's rural areas over the past three decades since the start of the country's economic reform.

This book examines key issues concerning land acquisition, and puts forward policy suggestions.

This book demonstrates the central role of ethical character in effective social work practice.

This study examines and explains the relationship between social health insurance (SHI) participation and out-of-pocket expenditures (OOP) as well as the mediating role the institutional arrangement of SHI plays in this relationship in China.

This pivot examines non-governmental organization (NGO) interventions in two community development initiatives, namely social capital and community empowerment, and their role in funding and formulating development frameworks in developing countries like Bangladesh.

This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion.

This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics.

This book critically examines the psychology of gambling in Hong Kong and Macao.

This book draws on contemporary theory and recent findings to provide researchers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students with essential resources, allowing them to better understand and support children, youth and adults with autism and significant communication impairments.

This volume provides acritical and reflexive view into the counselling profession in India.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women's experiences within mental health services, demonstrating the need for a radical paradigm shift in how women's distress and experiences are understood.

Providing a framework for treating substance use disorders (SUDs) in office-based psychotherapy, the second edition of this trusted work has been updated throughout and features two entirely new chapters.

Este libro es una exploracion acerca del interes que mostraron los radicales, masones en su mayoria, por impulsar y promover proyectos de beneficencia, de asistencia social y medica, como politica publica, en el Estado Soberano de Cundinamarca durante el Olimpo Radical.

La presente publicación expone los resultados de la más reciente investigación sobre los call center (o contact center) en Colombia.

Producto de las investigaciones de cada uno de los autores sobre el Trabajo Social en América Latina, en este libro se suman los esfuerzos por entender y conocer las bases de la perspectiva teórico-metodológica-histórico-crítica, inédita en la formación de la mayoría de paises de habla hispana.

Este libro se inserta en un campo novísimo de la investigación sobre familias en Colombia: mitos y secretos familiares.

El libro constituye una "acción colectiva" promovida inicialmente desde el seminario permanente en el 2004, que un grupo de estudiantes y profesores de la Escuela de Trabajo Social y Desarrollo Humano de la Universidad del Valle llevó a cabo con el propósito de discutir colectivamente conceptos como sujetos, sujetos colectivos, acciones colectivas, identidad, identidad colectiva y desarrollo.

La Reconceptualización, tema recurrente en Trabajo Social, es para el autor asunto no debidamente investigado y cuya comprensión es necesaria para construir un sólido proyecto profesional.

¿Cómo generar competencias en aquellos que conviven con niños y niñas para que construyan entornos de protección y cuidado para éstos?

Esta obra expone lo relacionado con la prueba ilícita desde un punto de vista teórico, abordando la realidad dentro de la casuística en derecho comparado.

"El programa "Atención al adulto mayor privado de la libertad en Colombia" se construyó con base en los resultados de una investigación sobre este aspecto particular, realizada en el año 2014, en la que participaron hombres y mujeres de diez Establecimientos de Reclusión del Orden Nacional –ERON–, aportando consideraciones sobre sus condiciones de vida y experiencias en prisión, desde la perspectiva de la adultez mayor.

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Este libro presenta la sistematizacion del trabajo articulado entre las asociaciones campesinas ACOC (Asociacion de caficultores organicos de Colombia) y ASOPECAM (Asociacion de pequenos caficultores de La Marina), el Instituto Mayor Campesino (IMCA) y la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, para concretar un modelo de economia solidaria que permite a los productores campesinos trascender de su condicion de proveedores de materia primar para ser socios de una empresa social, con autonomia.

En el mundo, el trabajo social tiene una historia de más de cien años.

El texto es un aporte al pensamiento educativo y social, cuyo interes de indagacion se focaliza en la juventud y en los temas inherentes a sus proyectos, vinculaciones y realizaciones.

El disertar alrededor de la perspectiva de género desde una mirada feminista deja en evidencia las condiciones de desigualdad entre hombres y mujeres en todos los ámbitos de la sociedad, incluyendo, por supuesto, la esfera de la educación en todos sus niveles.

Abarca el desarrollo historico del trabajo social, bases conceptuales y estrategias de intervencion, que en la experiencia de las autoras han sido relevantes en su practica profesional, tanto desde el punto de vista del trabajo social como de otras disciplinas cuyo interes o foco es la familia.

In this book academics, practitioners and scholars from all over the planet present relatively heterogeneous perspectives to produce something of the homogenous whole that youth work might be understood to be.

The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children's views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it.

This book explains, compares and evaluates the social and legal functions of adoption within a range of selected jurisdictions and on an international basis.

Since the 1992 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, the looming prospect of Earth's changing climate has inspired a broad movement dedicated to a sustainable future.

This book will enlarge our grasp of global migration phenomena, offering insights into the fascinating, at times startling, realities of human migration in Asia.

This book is the first compilation of its kind that brings together discussions of the evolution of scholarship in different branches of the Social Sciences.

This is the first comprehensive two-volume collection on anhedonia, a disorder that played an important role in psychopathology theories at the beginning of the twentieth century.

This is the first comprehensive two-volume collection on anhedonia, a disorder that played an important role in psychopathology theories at the beginning of the twentieth century.

This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U.

Today, any regular newspaper reader is likely to be exposed to reports on manifold forms of (physical, emotional, sexual) child abuse on the one hand, and abnormal behavior, misconduct or offences of children and minors on the other hand.

It is becoming increasingly evident that the existence together, in a diminishing world, of rich nations and very poor nations, is the critical problem of our time; and indeed other questions of international relations are rapidly taking on the appearance of being merely aspects of this central crux.

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