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.
Drawing on original research this book provides a challenging and instructive analysis of the nature of the heated and often contradicting arguments of recent years about how to reform the child care system, and the emergence of a central concern with child protection.
In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress "e;ended welfare as we know it"e; and trumpeted "e;workfare"e; as a dramatic break from the past.
Für junge Menschen, die einen Teil ihres Lebens in einer stationären HzE verbracht haben, stellt die Beendigung dieser Maßnahme und der damit oftmals verbundene Übergang in ein selbstständiges Erwachsenenleben i.
This book powerfully sets out the case for Transitional Safeguarding, a new approach to protection and safeguarding designed to address the needs and behaviours of young people in their mid-teens to mid-twenties who are falling between gaps in current systems, with often devastating results.
This book provides a one-stop resource for understanding the full dimensions of income inequality in the United States, including chief socioeconomic drivers of inequality and proposals to reduce the widening gap between rich and poor in America.
One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically?
From Every Child Matters and the Munro Review, to changing shifts in thinking from Coalition government; the child protection system has seen dramatic political and policy developments over recent years.
This book focuses on children's journeys through the care system, from voluntary admission into care, through complicated and often long court proceedings, in pursuit of Care or Freeing Orders.
Mit dem Merkmal der Lösungsorientierung stellt sich Soziale Arbeit in Gegensatz zu all jenen Verfahren, die davon ausgehen, dass eine Veränderung in Richtung gewünschter Ziele stets eine Problemanalyse – Stichwort Problemtrance – erfordert.
Housing Policy in the UK is a major new textbook that traces the emergence of a 'new comprehensive housing policy' in the wake of the Communities Plan and regionalisation.
There can be a lack of understanding of the vulnerable situation of children with disabilities and their families, even among professional caregivers whose mission is to protect the health and wellbeing of these children.
With increasing numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home, an opportunity exists to explore education outside the school environment.
The five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are well-known for their extensive welfare system and gender equality which provides both parents with opportunities to earn and care for their children.
Discover the incredible memoirs of internationally bestselling author Cathy Glass with this free extended eBook sample of I Miss Mummy, the story of Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother.
Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media.
The United States is unique among economically advanced nations in its reliance on employers to provide health benefits voluntarily for workers and their families.
This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators.
A comprehensive, theory-based approach to working with young clients in both school and clinical settings Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, Fifth Edition provides mental health professionals and students with state-of-the-art theory and practical guidance for major contemporary psychotherapeutic schools of thought.
- Was alle im Helfer- und Betreuer-System von »Problemkindern« wissen sollten- Mit vielen anschaulichen Beispielen- Praxisnaher, allgemein verständlicher Schreibstil»Problemkinder« fordern ihre Betreuer und Helfer meist maximal heraus.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches.
Putting Analysis into Child and Family Assessment bridges theory and practice, and provides clear guidance to improve assessments in child and family social work.
Child welfare services are intended to prevent the abuse or neglect of children; ensure that children have safe, permanent homes; and promote the well-being of children and their families.
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of It Takes a Village, this splendid edition includes photographs and a new Introduction by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium Cohort Study, which is tracking almost 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001 in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Die Evaluationen in der Jugendhilfe - und damit auch wirkungsorientierte Evaluationen - zeichnen sich im Gegensatz zur Laborforschung dadurch aus, dass wissenschaftlich fundierte Untersuchungsinstrumente nicht in einem künstlichen Setting, sondern in der Praxis zum Einsatz kommen.
